Hard Fork AI Black Forest Labs Secures Funding for Advanced AI Models
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Dec 5, 2025 Black Forest Labs has secured a whopping $300M in funding, significantly increasing its valuation to $3.25B. Major investors like Salesforce Ventures and NVIDIA are backing them, highlighting their strategic importance in the AI landscape. The company focuses on R&D to boost profitability instead of just compute resources. They also reveal impressive features of their image generation tool, Flux, including 4K output and multi-image styling. The founders' connections to Stable Diffusion further signify their potential to revolutionize the industry.
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Major Raise Signals Big Industry Influence
- Black Forest Labs raised $300M at a $3.25B valuation and will expand its model families.
- Jaeden Schafer highlights the firm's growing influence despite being little-known to general users.
Investors Reveal Key Customers
- The investor list reveals who relies on Black Forest Labs' models, including Canva and Figma.
- Strategic investments often indicate that these platforms use the company's image-generation API.
NVIDIA Fuels The AI Compute Flywheel
- NVIDIA's investment ties compute demand back into the chipmaker's growth.
- Jaeden Schafer describes a flywheel where model builders need NVIDIA and then spend on its hardware.