New Models
FLUX 3 Image
FLUX 3 Image: 4K, bounding-box layouts and 10 reference images
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Image with 4K output, bounding-box layouts and up to 10 reference images.
4K output10 reference images
Black Forest Labs AI Releases: FLUX 3 Image, Flux 3 Action & FLUX 3 Video
ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 9 Black Forest Labs releases since May 2025, most recently FLUX 3 Image on Oct 8, 2026. Highlights include FLUX 3 Video, FLUX 3 Image, FLUX.2, Flux 3 Action. 3 of them shipped with open weights. Every entry below has the episode segment where we covered it live, plus primary-source links and key numbers where we have them.
9 releases3 open weights9 episodesMay 2025 – Oct 2026
September 2026 1
New ModelsOpen weights
Flux 3 Action
Black Forest Labs open-sources Flux 3 Action, a 7B world action model
Black Forest Labs open-sourced Flux 3 Action, a 7B world action model.
7B parameters
August 2026 1
New Models
FLUX 3 Video
FLUX 3 Video: BFL's first video model generates native audio in the same pass
'Two years later, our first video model': up to 20 seconds at 24fps in 720p (1080p via upscaler), with dialogue, SFX, and ambience generated natively in the same pass and lip-sync across 14+ languages. Draft mode runs ~$0.06/s for iteration versus $0.17-0.29/s full renders, and three API modes share one endpoint (t2v, keyframe-pinned i2v, v2v continuation). BFL's internal ELO has it leading text-to-video; open weights as FLUX 3 Dev are explicitly promised.
20s @ 24fps max clip, 720p native$0.06/s draft mode vs $0.17-0.29/s full14+ lip-synced languages
July 2026 1
New Models
FLUX 3
FLUX 3: one model for image, 20-second video with audio, and robot action prediction
Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 in early access — its first model generating video, audio, and robot action-prediction from one set of weights, alongside image generation (a FLUX.3 Mimic variant was announced with it). FLUX 3 Video produces clips with native audio up to 20 seconds from text, images or footage, with continuation, keyframe transitions, multilingual dialogue and clip chaining; the same architecture is already teaching robots tasks on an Audi assembly line. BFL's own preference tests: 77% wins vs Runway Gen-4.5, 93% vs Luma Ray 3.2. Image generation and the open-weights FLUX 3 Dev come in later rollout phases.
20 sec max video-with-audio clip length77% / 93% preference wins vs Runway Gen-4.5 / Luma Ray 3.2
March 2026 1
Papers & Research
Self-Flow
Black Forest Labs introduces Self-Flow
Black Forest Labs published Self-Flow, new research from the FLUX makers in the AI art and diffusion space. It was included in the week's AI Art & Diffusion roundup.
January 2026 1
New ModelsOpen weights
Flux 2 Klein
Black Forest Labs drops Flux 2 Klein, fast open-weights image model
Wolfram broke the news mid-show: Black Forest Labs released Flux 2 Klein, a fast 4B/9B image generation model with open weights under Apache 2.0. It is designed for near-real-time editing and style iteration, and Alex used it minutes later in his live Claude Cowork demo.
December 2025 1
New Models
Flux 3
Flux 3 becomes the new gold standard for image generation
Flux 3 dropped in August and immediately became the gold standard for image generation, landing three years almost to the day after Stable Diffusion first went public. Wolfram used it as the yardstick for how far image AI traveled in those three years.
November 2025 1
New ModelsOpen weights
FLUX.2
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX.2, a 32B multi-reference image model
Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2, a 32B-parameter image model with open weights (FLUX.2-dev) that supports multi-reference image editing. It lets users combine multiple reference images and prompt edits with variables, a step up in controllable image editing.
32B Parameters
May 2025 1
New Models
FLUX.1 Kontext
Black Forest Labs drops FLUX.1 Kontext, SOTA image editing
Black Forest Labs, creators of Flux, released Kontext: three models (Pro, Max, and a 12B open-weights Dev in private preview) for consistent, context-aware text and image editing. Unlike GPT-image or VEO-style regeneration, Kontext keeps identity consistent across edits, adding what you ask for without changing your face every generation. Broke as news during the show.
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