Black Forest Labs launched Flux 3, a multimodal AI video generator that produces clips up to 20 seconds long with native audio, in early access via Discord. The model accepts text prompts, up to 10 im…
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 on Thursday, its first model that generates video clips up to 20 seconds long with synced audio, and human reviewers preferred its output over Runway Gen-4.5 in 77% o…
Black Forest Labs released Flux 3, a multimodal foundation model that generates video with native audio for up to 20 seconds, a first for the company. The model outperforms Seedance 2.0 in internal te…
Black Forest Labs (BFL) launched FLUX 3, a multimodal AI model that generates 20-second videos with synchronized audio, processes images, and predicts actions for robotics, with early access beginning…
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3, a single model that collapses image generation, video generation, and robot control into one unified system. The company claims the model can handle all three modali…
Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 on July 23rd, 2026, extending its image-generation technology into video with native audio and using the same model architecture to predict actions for robots. The mo…
Gen Z is pushing back against AI adoption, as seen in recent viral footage of graduates booing commencement speakers who praised generative AI, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Big Machine…
Director Christopher Nolan told The Telegraph that young audiences are “utterly rejecting” generative AI, calling it the most rapid dismissal of a supposedly foundational technology he has ever seen. …
Hollywood studios and top filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Ben Affleck are secretly racing to produce the first major AI-generated blockbuster, investing heavily in AI tools despite public skeptici…
A developer investigating FLUX.1 [dev] for commercial use found its non-commercial license and questioned whether AI model vendors can track self-hosted deployments. The article concludes that technic…
Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2-klein-4B, an image-to-image model under the Apache-2.0 license, now available on Hugging Face with over 470,000 downloads. The model is designed for use with diffuser…
Cerebras and Black Forest Labs CEOs discussed open-source AI, AGI, and Martin Scorsese's use of AI tools, highlighting wafer-scale chips and reasoning models as key advances. Cerebras claims to have e…
Mistral AI offers the Le Chat assistant and a model family including Mistral Large 3, Mistral Small 4, and Mistral Medium 3.5, with flagship models featuring a 256K token context window and 675B total…
AMD Quark, a quantization library optimized for AMD Instinct MI350 GPUs, enables MXFP4 quantization for Diffusers and xDiT FLUX.1-dev image generation, achieving up to 1.92× speedup over BF16 eager an…
GitHub, Mozilla, Hugging Face, and other LLM-gen-AI companies oppose updates to the California Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act (SB 1000), arguing that provisions requiring revocation of licen…
Martin Scorsese's role as an advisor to AI firm Black Forest Labs has sparked backlash from the Art Directors Guild, which accused the director of betraying human artists. Scorsese's team held a phone…
Google launched Nano Banana 2 Lite on June 30, 2026, a text-to-image model that generates 1K-resolution images in four seconds at $0.034 per image, embedding it across Search, Google Ads, NotebookLM, …
Nvidia AI Labs researcher Ziv Ilan presented at GTC 2026 that video diffusion models can achieve real-time performance without 50 denoising steps by using a stack of quantization, caching, and distill…
OpenRouter launched a Unified Image API providing standardized access to over 30 image generation models from providers including Google, OpenAI, and Black Forest Labs. The API includes a model discov…
GitHub joined an open source coalition including Black Forest Labs, Hugging Face, and Mozilla Corporation to advocate for amendments to California's AI Transparency Act (SB 942/SB 1000), arguing that …