FLUX 3 Image Klein: Open weights image generation and editing

Black Forest Labs (BFL), the frontier AI research lab building visual intelligence, today announced the open weights release of FLUX 3 Image Klein, its most capable open weights image model to date. FLUX 3 Image Klein provides the quality of a large frontier model with the customization and speed of open weights, runs on consumer GPUs and laptops, and retains features from the larger FLUX 3 Image model such as native 4K generation, bounding boxes, and pixel perfect editing. The release includes a base model for fine-tuning, a distilled model for low-latency generation, and quantized FP8, NVFP4, and INT8 versions. Following September’s open weights release of FLUX 3 Action for robotics, today’s release brings the company’s latest research to core creative use cases, giving developers and businesses greater freedom to build, customize, and deploy visual AI. Making its research and technology available for others to build on is one of Black Forest Labs’ founding principles. BFL has consistently released its research findings alongside open weight versions of its industry-leading FLUX models, enabling others to build on its advances. So far in 2026, the team has published its Self-Flow research and released open weights for the FLUX.2 [klein] family in January and FLUX 3 Action in September. Self-Flow improved generation across images, video, and audio, while helping models learn representations that can also support robot control. This research led to BFL’s most capable model to date, FLUX 3, which brings multimodal generation and action prediction into a shared architecture. Today’s release opens access to the creative capabilities of the same FLUX 3 backbone, with further open weights releases from the FLUX 3 family to follow. https://huggingface.co/collections/black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein submitted by /u/hyxon4 [link] [comments]

Source: r/StableDiffusion | 2026-10-15

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