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Black Forest Labs

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9 articles decelerating

Black Forest Labs has appeared in 9 articles since 2024-08. Coverage peaked in 2024Q3 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Grok, API, Flux.1.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-04-10
Wired 1 related

How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person Germany-based startup, became a top AI image generation competitor; sources: in recent months, it declined an xAI partnership

Black Forest Labs has long punched above its weight in the AI image generation space.  Its next move?  Powering physical AI.

2025-12-16
TechCrunch 5 related

Adobe adds a prompt-based video editor to its Firefly app that uses Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others

Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits …

2025-12-01
Financial Times 11 related

Germany-based Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image generation models, raised a $300M Series B at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in 2024

Low-profile group has quickly emerged as a top developer of image generation technology  —  German start-up Black Forest Labs …

2025-09-28
Financial Times 1 related

Sources: AI image generation startup Black Forest Labs is exploring raising $200M-$300M at a $4B valuation, after a prior undisclosed round at a $1B valuation

Black Forest Labs explores raising between $200mn and $300mn  —  A secretive, one-year-old German artificial intelligence start …

2025-05-30
TechCrunch 6 related

Black Forest Labs releases Flux.1 Kontext, a suite of AI models that let users generate and edit images using both text and images as inputs

Black Forest Labs, the AI startup whose models once powered the image generation features of X's Grok chatbot, on Thursday released a new suite …

2024-10-04
TechCrunch 5 related

Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, launches an API in beta and its latest image generation model, Flux1.1 Pro, for 2K images

and it's absolutely mind blowing Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Black Forest Labs unveils faster, improved AI image model Flux 1.1 Pro Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog : Black Forest Labs introduces...

2024-10-03
TechCrunch 3 related

Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, launches an API in beta and its latest image generation model Flux1.1 Pro

Black Forest Labs, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup behind the image generation model in xAI's Grok assistant, has launched an API in beta — and released a new model.

2024-09-21
TechCrunch

Sources: Black Forest Labs, whose Flux.1 model powers Grok's image generator, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation; it came out of stealth with $31M in August

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : X: @mattrosoff X: Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff : SCOOP from @ingridlunden Black Forest Labs, the company that powers Grok's image generation, is raising another $100M on a $...

2024-08-15
TechCrunch 6 related

A look at Germany-based Black Forest Labs, which recently emerged from stealth with a $31M seed led by a16z and whose FLUX.1 model powers Grok's image generator

5 examples of it in action Alex Wilhelm / Cautious Optimism : Consumer strength, future inflation concerns, and behold, AngelList data M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : Xitter Rolls Out AI Images in the Most ...

2024-08-11
Tom's Guide 1 related

Flux, an open-source AI image generator from the startup Black Forest Labs, goes viral for creating ultra-realistic images of people

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide :

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 10 Techmeme articles mentioning Black Forest Labs, dating back to August 2024. The biggest stories include Germany-based Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image generation... and Black Forest Labs releases Flux.1 Kontext, a suite of AI models that let users generate.... Frequently covered alongside Grok and Flux.1. Coverage has shifted toward competition themes and away from research, developer.

Key Moments

2024Q4developer +100pts; research +33pts; funding -33pts
2025Q2developer -100pts; consumer +100pts
2025Q3consumer -100pts; research -100pts; funding +100pts

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