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Black Forest Labs

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FLUX open-weight image and video models; picks and shovels for generative media. Forbes AI 50 2026; $450M raised.

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Secondary market

An indicative per-share price for Black Forest Labs, averaged across a private-share marketplace. It is not a tradable quote.

Indicative Price

$103.86per share▲ 0.07%+0.07 since prior mark

As of Nov 12, 2026, averaged across 1 source

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Source: Aggregated from multiple private-share marketplaces

Last primary round: ~$4B (2025, unverified), curated from reported financings. For information only, not investment advice.

Deals
Fal raises $1.3 billion from Bessemer and Nvidia at $16 billion, twice its April price
Bessemer's investment memo says fal moved from serving other labs' models to improving them, and the channel that now sells Black Forest Labs' video model is priced at nearly five times the lab itself.
November 14, 2026three-minute read
Model
Black Forest Labs gives Klein away free; fal prices FLUX 3 Max at 75% off and keeps the customer
fal launched FLUX 3 Max on October 19: Black Forest Labs' foundation model, post-trained, priced and sold only by fal. Four days earlier the lab gave away Klein's weights for free commercial use. The model maker publishes the model; the platform keeps the pay.
October 20, 2026three-minute read
Robotics & Defense
Black Forest Labs tops Nvidia's own robot benchmark days before Germany's Nvidia summit
The lab's FLUX 3 Action robot model leads RoboLab-120, a benchmark Nvidia runs. Germany's reported reply is a physical-AI agreement with Nvidia worth hundreds of millions of euros, with Black Forest Labs among the participants.
October 15, 2026three-minute read

Model
Meta's free Muse Spark Open license forces API sellers over $20 million in revenue to sign; Nebius sells it
Meta's "open" 816-billion-parameter model carries a license clause that requires API sellers earning over $20 million a year to notify Meta and sign a separate agreement. Nebius, the only listed launch partner, is selling the tokens.
October 20, 2026three-minute read
Model
Luma's Hollywood pitch rests on a borrowed voice and a model layer it reportedly rents
Luma AI's COO spent 1 October selling 'hybrid filmmaking' to Los Angeles while a federal suit over eight seconds of Carl Sagan's voice proceeded in California and PulseAugur reported Luma plugging in a rival's model. Around the pitch, AMD agreed to pay $8.2 billion for World Labs, and on paper a $9 billion damages ceiling landed on Suno.
October 2, 2026three-minute read
Model
Freiburg's frontier lab tells Europe to cheer up, on American money
The Freiburg lab's chief executive wants Europe to trade fear for opportunity in the very month Amodei, Altman and Musk called for a slowdown. Its $300 million round was co-led from San Francisco, its biggest customers are American, and its own safety report admits open weights cannot be recalled.
September 28, 2026three-minute read

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