AI Chips Update - Black Forest Labs Secures Series B For Visual AI Expansion

Black Forest Labs has announced a $300 million Series B investment led by AMP and Salesforce Ventures, positioning the company to further its advancements in the realm of visual intelligence through its FLUX model family. Founded in 2024, Black Forest Labs has quickly established itself as a leader in this field, offering state-of-the-art multimodal systems that integrate perception, generation, and reasoning. Their models, which rank as leading text-to-image generators on platforms like Hugging Face, have been widely adopted by over a dozen Fortune 500 enterprises. The investment aims to accelerate their research, development, hiring, and infrastructure as demand grows for high-performance, openly available visual AI systems globally.

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• "Black Forest Labs Announces Series B Investment to Accelerate Frontier Visual Intelligence" from Black Forest Labs on GlobeNewswire (published 01 December 2025)

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