Robotics has long run into the same wall. A model can describe a kitchen, a warehouse shelf or a workbench in detail, but that does not mean it knows what a robot arm should do next. Describing a scene is one skill. Acting in it is another.

Black Forest Labs, often shortened to BFL, is going after the second skill with FLUX 3 Action, a new open model built for robots. The company describes it as a world-action model, and its pitch rests less on size than on doing more with fewer parameters and less time.

From watching to acting: what a world-action model does

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