
Based in Freiburg, Black Forest Labs is the team behind the FLUX family of image-generation and editing models, among the most widely used open-weight visual models in the world.
Founded in 2024 by veterans of the Stable Diffusion research lineage, it pairs cutting-edge image quality with open distribution, racking up millions of downloads. Developers and enterprises build on its models for everything from creative tooling to production image pipelines.
It stands as Germany's most prominent generative-media lab.