[AINews] Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine, and FLUX-mimic video-action robotics model

Thursdays are the heaviest days for AI releases, and even though OpenAI scored a victory over Anthropic in launching the new ChatGPT Voice (consumer) and OpenAI Presence (enterprise) and getting more impressions than Claude Voice today (a completely accidental coincidence in timing, we are sure), neither seem as monumental as BFL’s launch of FLUX 3 Video today:We last covered BFL in our very well received Anjney Midha podcast:$5000 w…","cta":null,"showBylines":true,"showDescription":true,"showImage":true,"size":"sm","isEditorNode":true,"title":"The Professor of Outputmaxxing — Anjney Midha, AMP","publishedBylines":[],"post_date":"2026-06-18T17:30:00.811Z","cover_image":"https://substack-video.s3.amazonaws.com/video_upload/post/202359797/8dbbb3fa-e808-473c-af72-b9aee4fe0026/transcoded-1781652240.png","cover_image_alt":null,"canonical_url":"https://www.latent.space/p/anj","section_name":null,"video_upload_id":null,"id":202359797,"type":"podcast","reaction_count":22,"comment_count":4,"publication_id":1084089,"publication_name":"Latent.Space","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DbYa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73b0838a-bd14-46a1-801c-b6a2046e5c1e_1130x1130.png","belowTheFold":false,"youtube_url":null,"show_links":null,"feed_url":null}">Most GenMedia people will remember the BFL homepage when they initially launched Flux 1 in 2024, hinting at video models next, with their logo in a forest. Well, 2 years later, it’s finally real:The blogpost outlines Self Flow, covering ALL their modalities together with strong preference claims: “Its core capabilities include the following (all outputs come with native audio generation):Text-to-video generation.Image-to-video generation, either continuing from a starting frame (“animation”) or using images as visual references.Video-to-video generation from a reference clip, carrying central elements of a source video - for instance the same character - into a new scene or context.Generative video-audio continuation from input video and audio.Keyframe-to-video generation for controlled transitions between defined moments.Multilingual dialogue.A broad range of visual styles and aspect ratios, extending far beyond conventional cinematic output.Agentic chaining of individual clips into longer, multi-shot sequences.High style diversity -- FLUX 3 Video easily handles ranges of styles from candid camcorder footage to animation and cinematics.Strong typography generation and animated designs.”Some of the above are SOTA features from other frontier lab models, like we discussed in our Grok Imagine pod, so the community has very much been put on notice that there has now been independent, perhaps SOTA, reproduction of these capabilities, with an open weights Dev version on the way.As if this release wasn’t enough, the team also announced FLUX3-mimic, which proves that the FLUX 3 model is learning a sufficient world model capable of driving robots…@mimicrobotics was one of the first partners to gain early access to FLUX 3. Together we developed FLUX-mimic, a video-action model combining the FLUX 3 backbone with mimic's expertise in robot learning for dexterous","username":"bfl_ai","name":"Black Forest Labs","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1954888731053142016/NDyG-4-j_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-23T15:08:16.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":2,"retweet_count":7,"like_count":138,"impression_count":14471,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">… and predicting their impact in real factory settings…AI News for 7/22/2026-7/23/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a section of Latent Space.