# FLUX 3 Max

- Date: 2026-10-19
- Type: model
- Credit: fal / Black Forest Labs
- Post: https://x.com/bfl_ai/status/2112255353677328415
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/flux-3-max

A video model post-trained by fal Research on Black Forest Labs' [FLUX 3](https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/flux-3): a model host shipping a frontier video model of its own, built on someone else's base. It generates 5- to 20-second clips with audio from text, an image or up to ten keyframes, at 720p with optional upscaling to 1080p, and makes a 10-second clip in about 12 seconds: not yet real time, but fast enough to try many takes. Black Forest Labs, which built FLUX 3 for customization, called it "fast enough to try anything."

The headline claims needed reading closely. "Tied for #1" in image-to-video on Artificial Analysis meant 1,138 Elo against MiniMax H3's 1,140 and Seedance 2.5's 1,138, inside overlapping confidence intervals, and "22× faster than Seedance 2.5" shrank to about 5.5× once fal updated its own chart. It was available only through fal's API, with no open weights, at 75% off for the first three weeks. With [HeyGen Video 1](https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/heygen-video-1) built on MiniMax H3 the same month, October 2026 was when post-training a strong base became a way to ship a video model.

Links:
- fal: Introducing FLUX 3 Max (X): https://x.com/fal/status/2112251022047412492
- VentureBeat: fal launches FLUX 3 Max: https://venturebeat.com/technology/fal-launches-flux-3-max-claiming-22-faster-ai-video-generation-than-seedance-2-5
- The benchmark caveats: https://www.bit.fan/en/news/list/fal-bfl-flux-3-max-video-model-seedance-benchmark-caveats-eb64e3b3-en-keyName-f68f92f5

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/flux-3-max
Era: Late 2026 · Prime Time
Last updated: 2026-10-26