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Black Forest Labs secures $31M seed funding for AI development

Black Forest Labs, a startup, has secured $31 million in seed funding. The company is also associated with the development of FLUX.1, a model that appears to have different versions including 'pro', 'dev', and 'schnell'. Further details on the model's capabilities or the specifics of the funding's allocation were not provided in the source. AI

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RANK_REASON Seed funding for a startup and release of a model not from a tier-1 lab.

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    Rombach et al: FLUX.1 [pro|dev|schnell], $31m seed for Black Forest Labs

    **Stability AI** co-founder Rombach launched **FLUX.1**, a new text-to-image model with three variants: pro (API only), dev (open-weight, non-commercial), and schnell (Apache 2.0). FLUX.1 outperforms **Midjourney** and **Ideogram** based on Black Forest Labs' ELO score and plans …