# 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.

Published by The Open Weights on Jan 14, 2026. Canonical: https://theopenweights.com/news/flux-2-klein-9b-k2lg

## Key facts

- Company: Black Forest Labs
- Model: FLUX.2 Klein 9B
- Version: 2-klein-9B
- Category: Text → Image
- Modalities: Image Editing, Text → Image
- License: Other (Open weights, commercial use allowed)
- Parameters: 9B
- Architecture: Flux2KleinPipeline
- Precision: BF16
- Weights size: 18.2 GB
- Significance: major
- Published: 2026-01-14
- Last verified: 2026-06-27
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-9B
- Canonical URL: https://theopenweights.com/news/flux-2-klein-9b-k2lg

German AI research company Black Forest Labs has released FLUX.2 klein, a new 9-billion-parameter text-to-image model. The release marks the debut of the FLUX architecture, which is designed for high-speed, high-quality image generation and editing. The weights and code are available now on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-9B).

## A Different Approach to Diffusion

Unlike many popular image models such as Stable Diffusion that use a VAE to work in a compressed latent space, FLUX.2 operates directly on pixels. The architecture is based on Flow Matching, a newer technique for generative modeling. It also processes text and image embeddings in parallel, a design choice intended to improve efficiency and the model's understanding of prompts.

The result is a model capable of generating 1024x1024 images in under a second on consumer-grade GPUs. Beyond standard text-to-image prompting, FLUX.2 is also equipped for a variety of image editing tasks, including:

*   Inpainting and outpainting
*   Style transfer
*   Image-guided generation

This 9B model, named 'klein' (German for 'small'), is the first of two planned releases; a larger 50B 'groß' model is also in development. The model is released under a custom FLUX.2 Community License, which allows for creative and small-scale commercial use but requires a separate commercial license for entities with over $1 million in annual revenue.

## Get the model

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-9B)

## Sources

- [black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-9B](https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-9B) — Hugging Face, Jan 14, 2026

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