German AI lab Forest Lab It said on Monday that it has raised $300 million in a Series B funding round that puts the company at $3.25 billion.
The round was led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (Amp), and saw participation from A16z, Catalandum, Catandum, Catal landum, Catalystird, Catal, and Vesionaries Act.
The startup said it will use the funds for research and development.
Black forest lab, the creator Foundation AI models for generating and editing imageshas risen rapidly since its launch in August 2024. The company is in the news last year After it was revealed that Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot uses the model of a German company producing images, and the model used by companies such as Adobe, Picsart, PicsAnlabs, VSCO, and Verbel, VSCO, and Verbel, VSCO, and VERCEL.
The startup recently revealed the latest version of its image generation model, FLUX 2, which it says displays better text and images, and uses 10 images as a reference to maintain images. The model can produce images at a resolution of up to 4K pixels.
Hamung Labs’ black co-founders, Robin Rombach, Patrick Eseral, and Andreas Blattmann, used to be researchers who helped create a stable AI propagation model.