BERLIN / LONDON (IT BOLTWISE) – Black Forest Labs, an AI startup specializing in image generation, has raised $300 million in a funding round. The investment is led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha, with participation from NVIDIA and others. The company plans to further develop its AI models and enter new markets.
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Black Forest Labs, a young company from Germany, recently completed an impressive financing round, raising $300 million. This investment underlines investors’ confidence in the innovative strength of the company, which specializes in the development of AI models for image generation. Key investors include Salesforce Ventures and well-known venture capitalist Anjney Midha, backed by NVIDIA, Canva and other well-known companies.
The company, founded by experienced researchers Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser and Andreas Blattmann, has already made a name for itself by being involved in the development of stable diffusion models. With the introduction of their latest model series FLUX.2, which is based on a so-called flow matching architecture, Black Forest Labs is setting new standards in image generation. This architecture allows for more efficient hardware usage and significantly speeds up the inference process.
FLUX.2 integrates elements of the Transformer architecture, best known from large language models, and uses an open source vision model from Mistral AI to further improve image quality. A notable aspect of FLUX.2 is the use of an autoencoder, which compresses images into a latent space to remove unnecessary visual data and speed up processing.
With the new funding, Black Forest Labs plans to intensify its development initiatives and create models that combine visual perception, generation, memory and reasoning. These ambitions suggest the company may be targeting the robotics market, where such capabilities are crucial. Should Black Forest Labs enter this market, it would be competing with other developers such as Luma AI, which also recently received significant funding.
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