Black Forest Labs makes 2026 AI 100, valued at $3.25B with $450M raised
bfl_ai · x · 2026-11-14
Black Forest Labs was named to Newcomer and Bessemer's inaugural 2026 AI 100 and is hiring. Founded in 2024, it has raised $450M at a $3.25B valuation, with 84M+ Hugging Face downloads. Its founding team pioneered latent diffusion and Stable Diffusion, and it is pushing FLUX into generative media at scale, world-action models, and computer use across Freiburg and San Francisco.
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