FLUX

Black Forest Labs said Martin Scorsese joined as a partner and advisor and appeared in a working FLUX storyboard session. The endorsement gives generative pre-production a major filmmaker name; watch for more creator reaction and film workflow adoption.

Black Forest Labs released FLUX Virtual Try-On with demo and API access, claiming sub-4-second generations across thousands of products while preserving identity and garment details. The pitch targets catalog-scale apparel imagery, so teams should try it where logos, prints, and fit consistency usually break first.

Threads outlined multi-step pipelines for turning sketches into photoreal scenes, placing furniture with red-box prompts, and swapping in a real face after generation. Prompt-only inpainting still misses precise placement, so creators are using masks, ControlNet, and cleanup passes for tighter control.

Black Forest Labs says FLUX.2 [klein] 9B is now up to 2x faster for multi-reference editing at the same price, with new FP8 weights for leaner local runs. Retest reference-heavy edit pipelines if speed or local deployment was a blocker.