Black Forest Labs

Overview

Black Forest Labs (BFL) is a German AI company known for the FLUX open and API image-generation model family, competing with closed providers and larger open-weight stacks.

Recent Developments

• 2026-10-15: Released flux-3-image-klein—5.6B open-weights model with native 4K output, instruction editing, multi-reference (up to 10 images), bounding-box layout control, distilled and base checkpoints, FP8/INT8/NVFP4 builds, BFL API from $0.009/1Kimage;FLUXKommunityLicenseforcommercialuseunder$5M annual revenue (2026-10-16-flux-3-image-klein, 2026-10-16-flux-klein-huggingface-diffusers)

Related

• flux-3-image-klein
• ai-inference
• reflection-beam-open-weight-model

Sources

• 2026-10-16-flux-3-image-klein
• 2026-10-16-flux-klein-huggingface-diffusers