# Black Forest Labs: physical AI company

Canonical ID: `3c27501a-08bf-4a6d-bd93-6e987268a4bb`

## Key facts

- **FLUX 3 Action (Sep 2026, company-claimed):** Company (@bfl_ai Sep 23 2026): [FLUX 3 Action](/brains/flux-3-action.md) 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
- **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](https://bfl.ai/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](/brains/flux-3-action.md) and FLUX 3 Video entries. Treat capability and ranking language on the page as company-stated marketing ([Black Forest Labs Models](https://bfl.ai/models))

- **Slug:** black-forest-labs
- **Status:** private
- **HQ:** Freiburg, Germany / San Francisco, USA

## Models

_No models registered._

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is Black Forest Labs?

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.

### What does Black Forest Labs make?

Black Forest Labs is a robot brain developer: 1 foundation model or autonomy stack on the DEPLOY registry are credited to Black Forest Labs.

### Is Black Forest Labs publicly traded?

No. Black Forest Labs is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Black Forest Labs?

Black Forest Labs is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today.

### Where is Black Forest Labs headquartered?

Black Forest Labs is headquartered in Freiburg, Germany / San Francisco, USA.

### Who owns Black Forest Labs?

Black Forest Labs is privately held; ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is Black Forest Labs a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Black Forest Labs ranks in roughly the top 4% of companies tracked by the registry.


## Sources (5)

1. https://x.com/bfl_ai/status/2102816874782241174 · 2026-09-23
2. https://bfl.ai/models/flux-3 · 2026-09-23
3. https://venturebeat.com/ai/black-forest-labs-debuts-flux-3-action-an-open-weights-ai-robotics-model-that-tops-the-leaderboard-at-half-the-size-of-its-competition · 2026-09-23
4. https://bfl.ai/about
5. https://bfl.ai/models

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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