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Black Forest Labs

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Black Forest Labs/Text → Image

Black Forest Labs Releases Open FLUX.2 Image Decoder

This new component is part of a novel transformer-based architecture for text-to-image generation, released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Apr 6, 2026
Text → ImageImage Editing
FLUX.2 small decoder
FLUX.2 small decoder
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

Black Forest Labs Releases 9B FLUX.2 klein Image Model

The new open-weight model offers a more compact, distilled version of the advanced FLUX architecture for text-to-image and editing tasks.

Mar 9, 2026
Text → ImageImage Editing
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → Image

Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX.2 Klein 9B

The open-weight text-to-image model brings a 9-billion-parameter base release to the FLUX.2 Klein family.

Jan 28, 2026
Text → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → Image

Black Forest Labs Releases 9B FLUX.2 Image Model

The new text-to-image model emphasizes speed and efficiency with a novel architecture and FP8 quantization.

Jan 14, 2026
Text → ImageImage Editing
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

Black Forest Labs Releases Open-Source FLUX.2 Klein 4B

The new 4-billion-parameter model is a distilled version of the powerful FLUX.2 architecture, released under a commercially-friendly Apache 2.0 license.

Jan 14, 2026
Text → ImageImage Editing
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → Image

FLUX.2 Klein: A Compact 4B Open-Source Image Model

The new 4-billion-parameter model from Black Forest Labs offers an efficient, transformer-based alternative to latent diffusion for image generation.

Jan 14, 2026
Text → ImageImage Editing
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

Black Forest Labs Releases 9B FLUX.2 Image Model

The new 9-billion-parameter model uses a Diffusion Transformer architecture, promising higher performance than existing open-source alternatives.

Jan 14, 2026
Text → ImageImage Editing
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

Black Forest Labs Releases New FLUX.2 Image Model

The new 9-billion-parameter text-to-image model uses a novel architecture that operates directly on pixels for faster, more efficient generation.

Jan 14, 2026
Text → ImageImage Editing
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

Black Forest Labs Releases Open-Source FLUX.2 Image Model

The developer preview of the next-generation text-to-image architecture promises significant architectural improvements over its predecessor.

Nov 22, 2025
Text → ImageImage Editing
FLUX.2 [dev]
FLUX.2 [dev]
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX.1 Krea Image Model

The new 12-billion-parameter model, tuned by creative AI platform Krea, focuses on high-quality aesthetic output and prompt fidelity.

Jul 7, 2025
Text → Image
FLUX.1 Krea [dev]
FLUX.1 Krea [dev]
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

FLUX.1 Dev Becomes the Open-Weight Base to Beat

Black Forest Labs' 12B rectified-flow model has quietly emerged as the default foundation for open image generation.

Aug 2, 2024
Text → Image
FLUX.1 Dev
FLUX.1 Dev