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Black Forest Labs

FLUX image models; ex-Stable Diffusion founders

Black Forest Labs, founded by the original Stable Diffusion / latent-diffusion researchers, builds the FLUX family of open and pro image-generation models that became a leading alternative to Midjourney and DALL-E in 2024-2025. It powered xAI's Grok image generation and represents Europe's strongest position in generative media models.

Product

FLUX image models

Founders

ex-Stable Diffusion team

Notable use

Powered Grok images

How it fits the stack

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