Black Forest Labs just announced FLUX 3： a unified multimodal model for image， video， audio and action prediction. Founded in Freiburg， Germany， one of the few globally significant European companies in the AI sector.

The current release is gated early access， not open source. But if FLUX 3 Dev actually ships with usable open weights， this could become one of the most important open-model releases in generative video yet. Especially after the Chinese Minimax H3 release.

BFL claims， based on preliminary internal comparisons， that FLUX 3 outperformed models such as Runway Gen-4.5， Luma Ray 3.2， Kling 3 Pro， and Seedance 2.0. However， these figures stem from the early-access phase and do not constitute independent validation.

Be that as it may， it's great to see the quality that today's video models can produce at affordable prices. Something that would have been unthinkable a year ago.

Really cool release！