Black Forest Labs
Building visual intelligence: frontier AI models for images, video, audio and robotics
About Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs is a frontier AI lab building state-of-the-art generative AI models for visual intelligence. Founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser, pioneers of latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion, the company creates the FLUX family of models used by millions globally, including Meta, Adobe, and Canva.
Founders
Andreas Blattmann
Co-Founder
Patrick Esser
Co-Founder
Robin Rombach
Co-Founder & CEO
- AI · Creation Tools
- Freiburg, Germany
- Series B
- 2024
- 90 people
- €450.0
Funding rounds
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Undisclosed | Salesforce Ventures, AMP | |
| Seed | Undisclosed | Andreessen Horowitz | |
| — | Series A | Undisclosed | Andreessen Horowitz |
