The hottest new video model beats everyone, according to the only lab that has tested it.
Twenty seconds, native audio, real. The benchmark wins and the open-weights promise deserve a second look.
"Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 Video, generating 20-second HD videos with native audio from text or images, with open weights dropping soon" [SOURCE ↗]
THE MOVE: SELF-MARKED, graded by the party that benefits from the grade
WHAT IS REAL. 20-second clips with audio generated in the same pass, from text or images, with keyframe control. Live via API since August 4. This part is genuinely impressive.
WHAT IS MARKETING. 'HD' means 720p native plus an upscaler, and nobody says what resolution survives at the full 20 seconds. Every benchmark win is a BFL-run preference test with no sample sizes. The two models everyone actually measures against, Veo and Sora, appear in none of them.
THE PROMISE. 'open weights dropping soon' is an undated roadmap line, for a distilled Dev variant, scheduled last in the rollout. To their credit, BFL shipped FLUX.1 weights before. To reality's credit, 'later in 2026' is not 'soon'.
On August 4, 2026, Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 Video: 20-second clips with audio generated in the same pass, from text or images, with keyframe control, live via API. Decrypt described "clips up to 20 seconds long, with audio generated alongside the picture and synced to what's happening on sc
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