FLUX, Open Research, and the Future of Visual AI — Stephen Batifol, Black Forest Labs
This talk introduces FLUX, an open-source visual AI model developed by Black Forest Labs, and discusses its evolution and the future of visual AI. The presentation highlights FLUX's capabilities in text-to-image generation, image editing, and its progression towards visual intelligence. It also delves into a novel training methodology called Self Flow, designed to improve multimodal generative models by integrating representation learning directly into the generation process, eliminating the need for external encoders.
Europe 2026 23 min