Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Action, a 7B open-weight model for robot control

What this rests on

1. FLUX 3 Action is a 7-billion-parameter model that takes camera images, a robot current state, and a natural-language instruction, and predicts a chunk of actions alongside future video frames.

   FLUX 3 Action: A 7B World Action Model for Robot Control · Black Forest Labs
   42.92% success on NVIDIA RoboLab-120, 6.1 points above the previous leader

2. Black Forest Labs reports 42.92 percent on RoboLab-120, 6.1 points above the previous best open model, NVIDIA 16-billion-parameter Cosmos3-Nano-Policy (36.8 percent), with less than half its parameters.

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   FLUX 3 Action: A 7B World Action Model for Robot Control · Black Forest Labs
   42.92% success on NVIDIA RoboLab-120, 6.1 points above the previous leader

3. Black Forest Labs publishes the weights on Hugging Face as an open-weight model.

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   FLUX 3 Action: A 7B World Action Model for Robot Control · Black Forest Labs
   42.92% success on NVIDIA RoboLab-120, 6.1 points above the previous leader

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