Flux (text-to-image model)
suite of text-to-image models
Flux is a family of text-to-image and image-to-image models developed by Black Forest Labs (BFL), based in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Black Forest Labs was founded by former employees of Stability AI. As with other text-to-image models, Flux generates images from natural language descriptions, called prompts. In addition, some Flux models support editing images.
Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs (BFL) was founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser, former employees of Stability AI, and seven others. Rombach, Blattmann and Esser had previously researched the artificial intelligence image generation at LMU Munich as research assistants under Björn Ommer. They had published their research results on image generation in April 2022, which resulted in creation of Stable Diffusion. Investors in BFL included venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Brendan Iribe, Michael Ovitz, Garry Tan, and Vladlen Koltun. The company received an initial investment of US$31 million.
At the end of 2025, investor interest had risen dramatically including AMP, Salesforce Ventures, Samsung, Adobe, telekom, Canva offering USD 450 million. and BLF became a Delaware corporation.
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