AI Engineer YouTube · May 8, 2026

FLUX, Open Research, and the Future of Visual AI — Stephen Batifol, Black Forest Labs

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Why it matters

FLUX started as an image model story, but this talk makes the larger ambition clear: visual intelligence, not just image generation. From FLUX.1 through Kontext, FLUX.2, and FLUX.2 Klein, Black Forest Labs has been pushing fast, open releases while building toward models that understand images, video, audio, actions, a

My takeaway: FLUX started as an image model story, but this talk makes the larger ambition clear: visual intelligence, not just image generation. From FLUX.1 through Kontext, FLUX.2, and FLUX.2 Klein, Black Forest Labs has been pushing fast, open releases while building toward models that understand images, video, audio, actions, a