BFL Releases FLUX 3 Action: Open-Weight 7B World Action Model Tops RoboLab
On September 24, Black Forest Labs (BFL) released FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight 7B world-action model, marking the FLUX series—best known for image generation—officially entering the embodied AI/robotics space. The model is available on Hugging Face, with the product page at bfl.ai/models/flux-3-action.
Confirmed
- FLUX 3 Action has 7B parameters with open weights, positioned as a world-action-model for robotics, built on the multimodal FLUX architecture and dependent on LeRobot (per the Hugging Face model page).
- It topped the RoboLab-120 leaderboard with less than half the parameters of the previous best open-source model, beating it by 6.1 percentage points while running up to 3x faster at inference.
- The model was released on Hugging Face as a collection, including entries such as FLUX 3 Action Base.
Why it matters
- This is a landmark move by BFL from image generation into embodied AI/robotics control, signaling that world-action models are becoming a new battleground for top generative AI companies.
- Setting a new open-source SOTA with significantly fewer parameters offers direct reference value for deployment cost and efficiency in the ML community.
2026-09-24 ~ 2026-09-24 · 9 related posts
Primary sources
- BFL open-sources 7B world action model FLUX 3 Action, tops RoboLab 6.1pp ahead — bfl_ai ·
- Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Action Base, a robotics world-action-model on Hugging Face — black-forest-labs ·
- Black Forest Labs Open-Sources FLUX 3 Action: 7B World Action Model Tops RoboLab, Runs 3.95x Faster — fruesome ·
- [source] Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Action Base, a robotics world-action-model on Hugging Face — black-forest-labs · 2026-09-22
- [source] BFL open-sources 7B world action model FLUX 3 Action, tops RoboLab 6.1pp ahead — bfl_ai · 2026-09-24
- BFL Releases FLUX 3 Action, a 7B Robot Model — paf1138 · 2026-09-24
- Black Forest Labs releases Flux 3 Action, a 7B action world model — Scriabinical · 2026-09-24
- Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Action: open 7B world-action model tops RoboLab-120 at 3.95x speed — robrombach · 2026-09-24
- FLUX 3 Action released: open-weight 7B world-action model hits SOTA on RoboLab — StephanSturges · 2026-09-24
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