Black Forest Labs

🇪🇺 European

AI research lab building open and commercial image generation models

Black Forest Labs is a generative AI research company based in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. It was founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser, former Stability AI engineers behind Stable Diffusion. The lab develops the FLUX family of text-to-image and image-editing models, distributed in both open-weight and proprietary tiers.

https://bfl.ai

Location: Germany

Products

FLUX.1

Text-to-image model family with open-weight and commercial tiers.

replaces Midjourney