BFL.AI
Access FLUX image generation and edit images using multiple references.
Black Forest Labs Funding History
Black Forest Labs develops FLUX, a family of models that generate images from text. Its founders include researchers who worked on latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion.
Company Overview
Founded 2024 · Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Official WebsiteBlack Forest Labs Funding Timeline
Series B
US$300 million
Canva and Figma Ventures joined the round. Black Forest Labs said the funding would accelerate research and development of its visual AI models.
Led by Salesforce Ventures.
Source · tech.eu ↗Seed
US$31 million
The financing backed Black Forest Labs as it launched its first FLUX.1 image-generation models.
Led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Source · lw.com ↗
Black Forest Labs Founding Team
Black Forest Labs was founded by researchers behind latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion. Their later work at the company includes the FLUX image generation models. The founding team included Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser.
Black Forest Labs Products
Black Forest Labs Company Development
A New Image-Model Family After Stable Diffusion
Researchers who had worked on latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion formed Black Forest Labs and developed FLUX. The new family gave the team its own line of image-generation models to release and develop beyond its earlier research work.
Black Forest Labs Competitive Landscape
Model Selection and Training-Data Provenance
FLUX and Bria both serve image generation and editing. Bria emphasizes licensed training data in its enterprise offer, while FLUX is a family of models whose terms must be checked release by release. That makes training-data policy and the license of a chosen model two distinct procurement questions.
