Black Forest Labs Releases Flux 3 Image and Open-Source Klein Version

On October 2, 2026, The Decoder reported that Black Forest Labs released Flux 3 Image, the image-side model of its Flux 3 model family, claiming support for multi-step editing without altering other parts of an image, covering text-to-image, image-to-image, text rendering, and photorealistic capabilities. On October 15, 2026, the Hugging Face blog (first-hand source) reported that Black Forest Labs released the FLUX.3 Image Klein image model, with its open-source distilled and base checkpoints available on Hugging Face and Day-1 support in the Diffusers library. On October 16, 2026, The Decoder further reported that FLUX 3 Image Klein is a 5.6B-parameter open-weights model that can run on 8 GB of VRAM, supporting text-to-image, image editing, up to ten reference images, native 4K output, and pixel-level editing. Current status: the Flux 3 family debuted with the Image model on October 2, with details of the open-source Klein version announced and expanded October 15–16; no other follow-up information yet.

AI overview of reporting · Updated 3 days ago

1. 10/15 08:00 · 2 reports
   FLUX.3 Image Klein now available on Diffusers
   Hugging Face Blog：Welcome FLUX.3 Image Klein in Diffusers
2. 10/2 15:44 · 1 reports
   Black Forest Labs releases Flux 3 Image
   The Decoder：Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 Image with multi-step editing that leaves the rest of your picture alone