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Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs develops open-weights and commercial generative visual models, most notably the FLUX family (FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX.1 [schnell], FLUX.1 [pro]). Founded by the original creators of Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion, the company applies hybrid flow-matching architectures and multimodal rotary position embeddings to achieve photorealistic image synthesis, prompt fidelity, and typography rendering.
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About Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs develops open-weights and commercial generative visual models, most notably the FLUX family (FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX.1 [schnell], FLUX.1 [pro]). Founded by the original creators of Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion, the company applies hybrid flow-matching architectures and multimodal rotary position embeddings to achieve photorealistic image synthesis, prompt fidelity, and typography rendering.
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Models and products
FLUX.1 [schnell]
Schnell means 'fast' in German. This model uses distillation to generate incredibly high-quality images in just 1 to 4 steps, making it ideal for real-time applications.
FLUX.1 [pro]
Created by the original inventors of Stable Diffusion, FLUX Pro defines the new benchmark for AI image generation, offering unparalleled detail, anatomy, and text rendering.
FLUX.1 [dev]
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Company profile
- Organization type
- Generative Visual AI
- Headquarters
- Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
- Founded
- 2024-01-01
- Founders
- Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Andreas Blattmann, Dominik Lorenz
- Last verified
- 2026-09-02