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Black Forest Labs

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Black Forest Labs quickly became one of the most important image-model companies by pairing the FLUX family with multiple distribution paths across API, open weights, enterprise licensing, and self-serve use.

Freiburg, GermanyFounded 2024API accessWeekday review target

Editorial intelligence brief

Editorial focus

Weekday review target

Released FLUX 3 Action on September 23, 2026, an open-weight 7B world-action model for robot control that predicts action sequences and future visual states.

Focus: Visual intelligence models for image generation, editing, and enterprise deployment

Latest funding

$300M

Series B · source-backed

Tracked funding

$300M

Sum of itemized funding events

Latest valuation

Not tracked

No source-backed record

Latest revenue

Not tracked

Growth lifecycle position

Editorially verified updates

What changed

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Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Action

Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight 7B world-action model for robot control that predicts action sequences and future visual states.

Black Forest Labs · Read source ↗Added to map Sep 23, 2026

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Last checked Oct 18, 2026.

Source-backed financial history

Funding and financial history

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partial coverage · 1 record

Records

1

Sum of recorded funding

$300M

Coverage

partial

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#1

Series B · $300M

Running tracked total: $300M

Sources and details for every recorded funding announcement, newest first.

Product surface

Products and model families

Recent models

FLUX 3 ActionFLUX.2 [klein]FLUX.2 [max]FLUX.2

Products

FLUX APIOpen WeightsPlayground

Open weights

Yes

API access

Yes

Review target

Weekday

Market position

Lifecycle and strategic signals

Research

Preview

Growth

Deployment

Growth: Public access & scaling

Focus

Visual intelligence models for image generation, editing, and enterprise deployment

Signals

Image generationOpen weightsEnterprise licensing

Taxonomy

Open Weight LabsPhysical AIImageOpen sourceDeveloper toolsRobotics

Competitive context

MidjourneyStability AILuma AI

Infrastructure & distribution

Where Black Forest Labs sits in the AI stack

Model / product operator
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Model layer

4 tracked model families

02

Access layer

Managed API + self-hostable weights

03

Market layer

Media Models

Public product surface

FLUX APIOpen WeightsPlayground

Stack signals

ImageOpen sourceDeveloper toolsRoboticsImage generationOpen weightsEnterprise licensing

This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.

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