Black Forest Labs lands $300M Series B as CEO pitches open visual models for robotics
bfl_ai · x · 2026-10-28
Black Forest Labs co-founder and CEO Robin Rombach confirmed on Bloomberg TV that the company has raised a $300M Series B.
Rombach also delivered a GTC keynote on building open foundations for visual generation and action prediction for robotics, and joined panels with David Silver and other industry figures.
The company behind the Flux image-generation family is now positioning its open visual foundation models as a base for robotics action prediction, a notable expansion beyond media generation.
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