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Black Forest Labs

IA souveraine · Allemagne
Fondé en 2024 · bfl.ai

Freiburg-based German image-generation lab (FLUX models, Stable Diffusion creators), but heavily US-VC-funded; open-weight FLUX [schnell] under Apache 2.0.

Black Forest Labs propose un hébergement européen en Allemagne, mais une maison mère ou un sous-traitant américain laisse une exposition matérielle au CLOUD Act. Référencé dans la catégorie IA souveraine.

Notes d’évaluation

Black Forest Labs (Freiburg, Germany, with an additional SF lab) is the FLUX-model company founded in 2024 by the Stable Diffusion core team (Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Dominik Lorenz, Patrick Esser, Bjorn Ommer), ISO 27001 certified and produces open-weight image-generation models (FLUX.2 max/pro/flex/klein, plus historical FLUX [schnell] Apache 2.0 and FLUX [dev] non-commercial), but the cap table is dominated by US capital (Andreessen Horowitz, Salesforce Ventures, General Catalyst, NVIDIA, Anjney Midha AMP) after a US$31M seed (Aug 2024) and US$300M Series B at US$3.25B valuation (Dec 2025); Temasek (SG) is the only non-US institutional. EU-HQ, ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II certified, but eu_hq_us_funded with material CLOUD Act exposure for the managed API; no public DPA URL and no sub-processors list, although a DPA and vendor-assessment materials are available on request. Self-hosted FLUX [schnell] on EU GPU infrastructure eliminates CLOUD Act exposure.

Constats

CLOUD Act
Actionnariat
Sous-traitants
— non divulgué

Signaux vérifiés

Juridiction
  • Hébergement UE / adéquation: Oui
  • Opérateur UE / adéquation: Oui
  • Aucune exposition au CLOUD Act: Non
Transparence
  • DPA public: Non
  • Sous-traitants divulgués: Non
  • Clients open source: Oui
  • Certification tierce: Oui
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À propos de Black Forest Labs

Black Forest Labs is the German image-generation research lab founded in 2024 by the core team behind Stable Diffusion (Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Dominik Lorenz, Patrick Esser, and Björn Ommer) whose 2022 paper "High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models" (originating from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Heidelberg University) underpinned the entire current diffusion-models wave. The company is headquartered in Freiburg, Germany (with an additional research lab in San Francisco). The product surface is the FLUX family of image-generation models: the current generation includes FLUX.2 [max], [pro], [flex], and [klein]; previous-generation FLUX [schnell] is published under Apache 2.0 and is freely usable commercially; FLUX [dev] is non-commercial-research-licensed; and FLUX [pro/max] are commercial-API-only.

For an EU-sovereignty audit Black Forest Labs is structurally a Mistral-AI-like case: German legal-entity HQ + DE-origin founders + ISO 27001 certification + open-weight model strategy + a research-and-licence model that supports self-hosting on EU GPU infrastructure, versus a cap table that is dominated by US capital. The seed round in August 2024 raised US$31M led by Andreessen Horowitz with General Catalyst, Mätch.vc, Garry Tan, Brendan Iribe, Michael Ovitz, and NVIDIA's Timo Aila. The December 2025 Series B raised US$300M at a US$3.25B post-money valuation co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP), with a16z, NVIDIA, General Catalyst, and Temasek participating; total raised US$450M. The single non-US-non-DE investor of any size is Temasek (Singapore sovereign wealth fund). Per the directory's strict-ownership stance this US-funded weighting is eu_hq_us_funded, and CLOUD Act exposure for the managed API is recorded as Significative. The API hosting itself is still not publicly disclosed: no region, country, cloud provider or sub-processor is named anywhere public, and the managed API states only zero data retention on inputs and outputs processed on "certified infrastructure". What is disclosed is a US legal entity. The privacy policy names Black Forest Labs Inc (2261 Market Street, San Francisco) as the controller for users outside the EEA, UK and Switzerland, with BFL GmbH (Freiburg; Amtsgericht München HRB 291820) as the controller for EEA, Swiss and UK users. The imprint does not name BFL Inc as a parent or shareholder of the GmbH, so the group structure is unresolved and is the question to put to the vendor.

The procurement-grade answer is the self-host path. FLUX [schnell] under Apache 2.0 runs on any EU GPU host (Hetzner H100, OVHcloud GPU, Scaleway B300, STACKIT GPU, IONOS Cloud) with no CLOUD Act exposure for buyers who can operate inference themselves. FLUX [dev] can be used for research and self-hosting subject to its non-commercial licence. ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II are both attested on the enterprise page and verifiable through the vendor's Vanta trust centre. Best fit: AI / ML engineering teams who want best-in-class diffusion models, EU regulated buyers who self-host on EU GPU infrastructure for sovereignty, and any procurement-grade buyer evaluating sovereign-AI image generation alongside Mistral AI for text.

Carte des sous-traitants · non divulgué

L'éditeur ne publie pas de liste de sous-traitants. La conformité Schrems II et l'exposition au CLOUD Act ne peuvent pas être vérifiées indépendamment sans elle.

Référentiels & certifications

ISO/IEC 27001
Active
SOC 2
Active
Information · cadre US

Matrice de fonctionnalités

Tableau 1Fonctionnalités de Black Forest Labs

Auto-hébergeable Oui
Accès API Oui
Modèles open-weight Oui
Fine-tuning Oui
Multimodal Oui

Intégration & accès

REST API Oui
SSO (SAML / OIDC) Non

Conformité & gouvernance

Audit log Non
Self-host / on-prem option Oui

Tarifs & paliers

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Documents publics

L'éditeur ne publie pas de DPA public. Sans contrat de sous-traitance accessible publiquement, les petits clients européens ne peuvent pas signer eux-mêmes l'accord : cela est consigné comme absence de DPA publique (voir Notre méthode).
L'éditeur ne publie pas de liste de sous-traitants. La conformité Schrems II et l'exposition au CLOUD Act ne peuvent pas être vérifiées indépendamment sans elle.
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