Black Forest Labs
About
Black Forest Labs (BFL) was founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Patrick Esser and seven others, all of the lead founders ex-Stability AI and researchers at LMU Munich under Bjorn Ommer who worked on Stable Diffusion (Wikipedia). HQ: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (per the excerpt and Wikipedia). CEO is not stated in the sources used. San Francisco expansion, headcount and incorporation details are not verified.
Products
- FLUX family: FLUX.1 (Aug 2024), FLUX.2 (Nov 2025), FLUX 3 (July 2026, multimodal incl. video); these version dates come from an earlier note and are not verified (Wikipedia says generations ran Aug 2024 to July 2026).
Funding
- 2024-08: $31M initial round (earlier note; not verified).
- Late 2025: reportedly $450M from investors including AMP, Salesforce Ventures, Samsung, Adobe, Telekom and Canva (earlier note; not verified).
Partnerships (Wikipedia)
Grok (Aug 2024, later replaced by Aurora), Mistral Le Chat (Nov 2024), Nvidia Blackwell (Jan 2025), Adobe Photoshop (Sep 2025), Meta Vibes (Sep 2025).
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_(text-to-image_model) (secondary, accessed 2026-10-05)
- https://docs.bfl.ai/ (accessed 2026-09-30)
Open items
- CEO, valuation and exact FLUX 3 release date not verified against a BFL primary source.