--- schema: 1 type: video title: >- FLUX, Open Research, and the Future of Visual AI — Stephen Batifol, Black Forest Labs description: >- FLUX started as an image model story, but this talk makes the larger ambition clear: visual intelligence, not just image generation. From FLUX.1 through Kontext, FLUX.2, and FLUX.2 Klein, Black Forest Labs has been pushing fast, open releases while building toward models that understand images, video, audio, actions, and eventually the physical world itself. Along the way, Stephen Batifol walks through the research behind that direction, including BFL's work on self-supervised multimodal training, real-time generation and editing, and the path from generative media toward world models and robotics. Speaker info: - https://x.com/stephenbtl - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-batifol/ --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/x8Yb4RidLgM-black-forest-labs-flux-open-research-and-the-future-of-visual-ai Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/flux-open-research-and-the-future-of-visual-ai-step-bd135714ef68 markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/video/flux-open-research-and-the-future-of-visual-ai-step-bd135714ef68.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T14:12:01.770Z' language: null children: [] videoId: x8Yb4RidLgM durationSeconds: 1352 publishedAt: '2026-05-08T15:00:06.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 26 endSeconds: 117 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=26' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 26 endSeconds: 117 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=26' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 127 endSeconds: 219 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=127' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 127 endSeconds: 219 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=127' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 230 endSeconds: 349 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=230' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 230 endSeconds: 349 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=230' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 230 endSeconds: 349 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=230' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 359 endSeconds: 449 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=359' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 461 endSeconds: 572 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=461' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 461 endSeconds: 572 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=461' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 583 endSeconds: 714 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=583' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 583 endSeconds: 714 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=583' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 724 endSeconds: 814 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=724' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 824 endSeconds: 924 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=824' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 934 endSeconds: 1063 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=934' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 1075 endSeconds: 1174 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=1075' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 1075 endSeconds: 1174 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=1075' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 1185 endSeconds: 1307 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=1185' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 1185 endSeconds: 1307 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/x8Yb4RidLgM?t=1185' heldReason: rights --- # FLUX, Open Research, and the Future of Visual AI — Stephen Batifol, Black Forest Labs FLUX started as an image model story, but this talk makes the larger ambition clear: visual intelligence, not just image generation. From FLUX.1 through Kontext, FLUX.2, and FLUX.2 Klein, Black Forest Labs has been pushing fast, open releases while building toward models that understand images, video, audio, actions, and eventually the physical world itself. Along the way, Stephen Batifol walks through the research behind that direction, including BFL's work on self-supervised multimodal training, real-time generation and editing, and the path from generative media toward world models and robotics. Speaker info: - https://x.com/stephenbtl - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-batifol/ --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/x8Yb4RidLgM-black-forest-labs-flux-open-research-and-the-future-of-visual-ai Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/flux-open-research-and-the-future-of-visual-ai-step-bd135714ef68 · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.