BLACK FOREST LABS LAUNCHES FLUX 3 VIDEO
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Black Forest Labs has made FLUX 3 Video generally available, a text-to-video model generating Full HD clips up to 20 seconds long. The company claims its internal benchmarks rank it ahead of competitors including Google's Gemini Omni Flash and Seedance 2.0.
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