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Black Forest Labs

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Black Forest Labs (BFL) is a Freiburg / San Francisco generative AI lab known for FLUX image and video models, tracked here for its Physical AI / robotics path…

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HQ
Freiburg, Germany / San Francisco, USA
Status
private

Overview

Black Forest Labs (BFL) is a Freiburg / San Francisco generative AI lab known for FLUX image and video models, tracked here for its Physical AI / robotics path including FLUX 3 Action world-action models and the earlier FLUX-mimic collaboration.

Reality check

FLUX 3 Action (Sep 2026, company-claimed)

Company (@bfl_ai Sep 23 2026): FLUX 3 Action is an open-weights 7B World Action Model that predicts robot actions and future scenes from camera observations plus instructions. Company claims first place on RoboLab vs prior open best (+6.1 percentage points), 56% fewer parameters, and up to 3.95x faster; fine-tuning recipes and LeRobot / Jetson integration with NVIDIA and Hugging Face. VentureBeat (same day) relays company-supplied RoboLab-120 overall success ~42.92% and notes NVIDIA public leaderboard had not yet listed the result at press time. Official bfl.ai FLUX 3 page still describes Action rollout via selected partners beginning with mimic robotics; treat benchmark and open-weight timing as company-claimed pending leaderboard confirmation and public weight drop

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Key facts

Freiburg and SF visual AI lab (primary BFL)

Black Forest Labs describes itself as a frontier AI research lab for visual intelligence with labs in Freiburg and San Francisco. Its about page says the founding team includes pioneers of Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX.1, and positions the company as building foundational infrastructure for visual AI used from individual artists to enterprise applications. Treat positioning as company-stated (Black Forest Labs About)

FLUX model family lineup (primary BFL)

BFL's models page lists FLUX image and video offerings including FLUX.2, FLUX.2 Max, FLUX.2 Klein, FLUX Tools, FLUX.1 Kontext, FLUX 1.1 Pro Ultra, and FLUX 1.1 Pro, plus FLUX 3 Action and FLUX 3 Video entries. Treat capability and ranking language on the page as company-stated marketing (Black Forest Labs Models)

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Black Forest Labs in third-party press

Black Forest Labs debuts FLUX 3 Action, an open-weights AI robotics model that tops the leaderboard at half the size of its competition - VentureBeat

Sep 23, 2026

Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3: A Multimodal Flow Model for Image, Video, Audio and Robot Action Prediction - MarkTechPost

Jul 26, 2026

Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Folds Robotics Into One AI Model - techi.com

Jul 25, 2026