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Updated June 15, 2026Black Forest Labs is a generative AI company founded in 2024 by the original creators of Stable Diffusion, including Robin Rombach and Andreas Blattmann. Based in Freiburg, Germany, the company has raised over $100 million to develop next-generation image and video generation models.
The company's flagship product is FLUX, a family of image generation models that quickly rose to the top of quality benchmarks upon release. FLUX.1 models come in three tiers: FLUX.1 [pro] (highest quality, API-only), FLUX.1 [dev] (open-weight for non-commercial use), and FLUX.1 [schnell] (fast, Apache 2.0 licensed). FLUX models excel at photorealism, text rendering within images, and prompt adherence — areas where previous generation models often struggled.
Black Forest Labs represents the continuation of the Stable Diffusion research lineage with fresh funding and independence from Stability AI. The team's deep expertise in diffusion models and latent space architectures, combined with their track record of creating the most influential open-source image generation technology, positions them as a leading force in visual AI generation.