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Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Action, an open robotics AI model

7B parameters, 3.95x faster. Black Forest Labs just reset the robotics AI benchmark with FLUX 3 Action.

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Why it matters

Black Forest Labs enters robotics with a compact, open model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on RoboLab-120 while running significantly faster than competing approaches. This is a capability milestone for embodied AI and signals the competitive frontier shifting toward efficiency in robotics inference.

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  1. FLUX 3 Action: open robotics model for camera-feed-to-action prediction

  2. 7 billion parameters

  3. Sets record on RoboLab-120 benchmark

  4. 3.95x faster than previous top model

  5. Open-world-action model architecture

  6. Black Forest Labs expanding from image generation into robotics domain

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Publisher excerpt: Black Forest Labs is entering robotics with FLUX 3 Action. The open-world-action model uses camera feeds to predict what action a robot should take next. With just seven billion parameters, it sets a record on the RoboLab-120 benchmark while running up to 3.95 times faster than the previous top…
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