Black Forest Labs is an AI research lab in Freiburg and San Francisco building generative models for images and video, including the FLUX text-to-image model family.
Black Forest Labs is a frontier AI research lab that builds generative deep-learning models for images and video. Its work spans text-to-image synthesis, diffusion and latent diffusion architectures, and visual intelligence more broadly. The company is headquartered in Freiburg, Germany, with a presence in San Francisco, and employs approximately 50 researchers and engineers.
Its principal product is FLUX, a family of image-generation models designed for text-to-image synthesis, with an emphasis on prompt adherence, visual quality and creative control. The company states that FLUX powers millions of creations worldwide, and that its founding team's earlier innovations are used at similar scale. The founding team includes researchers who pioneered Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion and VQGAN, and the firm describes itself as born from foundational research.
Despite its size, the lab produces work aimed at the same frontier as the largest technology companies. It serves the creative industries, enterprise applications and the AI/ML research community, and states a mission of advancing creativity, efficiency and diversity in AI while making its models broadly accessible. Funding and founding-year details have not been disclosed.
