Black Forest Labs is the AI company behind FLUX, the state-of-the-art image generation model. Try FLUX.2, FLUX Kontext, and more via our API.
Location: Germany
Total raised: $301.73M
Valuation: $3.26B
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 01.12.2025 | Series B | $301.73M | Salesforce |
Mentions in press and media 18
| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.03.2026 | Mistral AI launches Forge to help companies build proprietary AI models, challenging cloud giants | Mistral AI on Monday launched Forge, an enterprise model training platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data — a move that positions the French AI lab squarely... |
| 16.03.2026 | Nvidia introduces Vera Rubin, a seven-chip AI platform with OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta on board | Nvidia on Monday took the wraps off Vera Rubin, a sweeping new computing platform built from seven chips now in full production — and backed by an extraordinary lineup of customers that includes Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Mistral AI, along... |
| 06.03.2026 | Black Forest Labs' new Self-Flow technique makes training multimodal AI models 2.8x more efficient | To create coherent images or videos, generative AI diffusion models like Stable Diffusion or FLUX have typically relied on external "teachers"—frozen encoders like CLIP or DINOv2—to provide the semantic understanding they couldn't... |
| 02.02.2026 | Топ нейросетей и ИИ-сервисов 2026 года: лучшие ИИ-инструменты | 2026 год. Нейросети – теперь рабочий инструмент, который есть почти у каждого. Но в этом и проблема: их стало так много, что глаза разбегаются. Только собрался освоить один сервис – тут же выходит другой, который обещает быть лучше, быстрее... |
| 21.01.2026 | Black Forest Labs launches open source Flux.2 [klein] to generate AI images in less than a second | The German AI startup Black Forest Labs (BFL), founded by former Stability AI engineers, is continuing to build out its suite of open source AI image generators with the release of FLUX.2 [klein], a new pair of small models — one open and o... |
| 18.12.2025 | Нейро-дайджест: ключевые события мира AI за 3-ю неделю декабря 2025 | Привет, с наступающим! Это новый выпуск «Нейро-дайджеста» — коротких и полезных обзоров ключевых событий в мире искусственного интеллекта и технологий. Меня зовут Вандер, и каждую неделю я обозреваю новости о нейросетях и ИИ. Неделя выдалас... |
| 17.12.2025 | Black Forest Labs представила FLUX.2 max, флагман для кинематографической генерации изображений | Black Forest Labs выпустила FLUX.2 max, свою самую мощную модель для генерации изображений, ориентированную на профессиональное использование в дизайне, рекламе и киношной графике. Компания позиционирует модель как инструмент для тех, кому ... |
| 02.12.2025 | Black Forest Labs Raises $300M to Advance Visual AI | Black Forest Labs secured $300M in Series B funding. The company, valued at $3.25B, will accelerate visual AI research and development. Adobe, Canva, and Meta use its FLUX models. The funding round was led by AMP and Salesforce Ventures. Bl... |
| 01.12.2025 | Black Forest Labs launches Flux.2 AI image models to challenge Nano Banana Pro and Midjourney | It's not just Google's Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 we have to be thankful for this year around the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. No, today the German AI startup Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2, a new... |
| 01.12.2025 | Black Forest Labs secures $300M Series B at $3.25B valuation | Today Black Forest Labs has announced a $300 million Series B round at a $3.25 billion post-money valuation. Black Forest Labs was founded last year with a mission to build frontier models for pixels—systems capable of creating what cameras... |
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