# Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX 3, Multimodal Model Generating Images, Video, and Audio

> Black Forest Labs, the startup behind the popular FLUX image models, has moved into full multimodal territory with FLUX 3. Announced July 23, it is a single model trained jointly on images, video and audio, and it can generate clips up to 20 seconds long with native, synced sound across aspect ratios from vertical 9:16 to cinematic 21:9. Inputs are flexible too: it takes text prompts, up to ten reference images, audio, and even existing video for editing or remixing. Early access is running through Discord at 720p, with 1080p promised soon. In head-to-head tests, human raters preferred FLUX 3 over Runway's Gen-4.5 in 77% of comparisons, and the company says a robotics variant is already being trialed on Audi production lines. The interesting part is that this is an independent lab, not a hyperscaler, shipping a unified generator that bundles sound in from the start. If the quality holds outside cherry-picked demos, it is another sign that the video-plus-audio frontier is not going to belong to the giants alone.

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Black Forest Labs, the startup behind the popular FLUX image models, has moved into full multimodal territory with FLUX 3. Announced July 23, it is a single model trained jointly on images, video and audio, and it can generate clips up to 20 seconds long with native, synced sound across aspect ratios from vertical 9:16 to cinematic 21:9. Inputs are flexible too: it takes text prompts, up to ten reference images, audio, and even existing video for editing or remixing. Early access is running through Discord at 720p, with 1080p promised soon. In head-to-head tests, human raters preferred FLUX 3 over Runway's Gen-4.5 in 77% of comparisons, and the company says a robotics variant is already being trialed on Audi production lines. The interesting part is that this is an independent lab, not a hyperscaler, shipping a unified generator that bundles sound in from the start. If the quality holds outside cherry-picked demos, it is another sign that the video-plus-audio frontier is not going to belong to the giants alone.

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