Open Models, Measurable Safeguards
Black Forest Labs has established itself as a pioneer in visual intelligence, with its open-weight FLUX models reaching over 50 million downloads on Hugging Face and rivaling models from Google, OpenAI, and DeepSeek in developer adoption. The company has distinguished itself not only through technical capability, but through a strong commitment to open research.
In this conversation, Black Forest Labs’ Adam Chen and Ben Brooks, who lead the company’s legal and policy work, join Matt Perault to discuss what it means to build frontier visual AI openly. They explain the role of open models in…
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