# FLUX.1 **FLUX.1** is an open-weight image generation model from Black Forest Labs — built by the original [[stable_diffusion|Stable Diffusion]] research team. The `[schnell]` variant ships under Apache 2.0; `[dev]` is open-weight for non-commercial use. It surpasses [[midjourney|Midjourney]] v6.0 and [[dalle|DALL·E]] 3 on visual quality and prompt adherence benchmarks, making it the current state-of-the-art for open image generation. ^overview