--- title: FLUX 3 x mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models description: Black Forest Labs has partnered with mimic robotics to create FLUX-mimic, a video-action model built on the FLUX 3 multimodal foundation model backbone. FLUX 3... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/flux-3-x-mimic-the-next-generation-of-video-action-models-ixm7y902g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: FLUX 3 x mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models | daily.dev og:description: Black Forest Labs has partnered with mimic robotics to create FLUX-mimic, a video-action model built on the FLUX 3 multimodal foundation model backbone. FLUX 3... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/flux-3-x-mimic-the-next-generation-of-video-action-models-ixm7y902g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ixm7y902g.png og:image:alt: FLUX 3 x mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # FLUX 3 x mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Black Forest Labs has partnered with mimic robotics to create FLUX-mimic, a video-action model built on the FLUX 3 multimodal foundation model backbone. FLUX 3 is jointly trained on images, video, and audio, with video prediction accounting for over 95% of compute costs. The key insight is that learning to generate realistic video requires understanding physical world dynamics — contact, motion, weight, cause and effect — making the same backbone suitable for robot action prediction. Using a technique called Self-Flow that unifies generation and representation learning, FLUX-mimic decodes robot actions from the backbone's internal world representations. The model achieves state-of-the-art manipulation success rates, requires significantly less demonstration data than prior approaches (up to 10x sample efficiency), and runs with a reaction time of 101ms. It has been deployed at Audi for complex tasks like soft-body manipulation and fine assembly work that conventional robotics cannot handle. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 1 discussion and 73 comments across hackernews (as of 2026-07-25). **TL;DR:** The community is broadly impressed by BFL's (Black Forest Labs) video-generation-to-robotics work, with side discussions about European AI sovereignty, movie quality, and LLM-written text detection. Excitement about the robot arm's retry behavior and the world-model-to-robot pipeline is tempered by concerns about economic displacement and questions about acquisition. **Sentiment:** 45% positive · 35% mixed · 20% skeptical **The case for** - The robot arm's ability to self-correct and retry (e.g., reseating window trim) is seen as a genuinely novel and impressive capability. - Using video generation models as a path to robot training is viewed as a clever and scalable business strategy. - Commenters appreciate the European startup collaboration angle and hope BFL remains independent. **The pushback** - Some commenters worry this technology accelerates a crisis where humans have diminishing economic value unless they own capital. - There is skepticism about whether BFL's approach is truly novel, with references to Nvidia and Waymo doing similar things already. - Concern that acquisition by a large American company (e.g., Amazon) would be undesirable for European AI independence. **By community** - hackernews (mixed): Commenters are genuinely excited about the robotics demo and world-model insight, but the thread quickly splinters into debates about movie quality, LLM writing style, acquisition prospects, and economic displacement. **Hottest debate:** Whether BFL should be acquired by a large tech company like Amazon or remain an independent European AI player. **Open questions** - Will BFL or any video lab successfully pivot into a full robotics company? - How does BFL's glove-based hand approach compare to standard gripper-based training pipelines in practice? - Is the world model extracted from video generation models truly general enough for diverse robot tasks? **Highlights** > The video at around 3.30min, where the robot arm took 3 attempts to reseat the window trim, was quite unnerving - I have not seen such resolving before. Is it new or am I way out of the loop? > — [GiffertonThe3rd on hackernews · 3 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033887) > If Amazon does not buy them, the CEO should be fired... > — [johnbarron on hackernews · 3 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033782) > Really interesting. Upshot: a well trained multimodal video generation model has a world representation model trained inside it. They’ve done some work lifting this world model out and deploying it to robots, where it seems to work well. On the one hand, this isn’t a new idea, and the quality video models certainly have understanding of materials, light, the world (at least in an Occam’s razor sense of understanding). I’m not aware of a video lab that’s turned itself into a robot lab yet, though; perhaps this would be a first, or a new sort of obvious-in-retrospect business path: train video model, sell video generation, scale, use scale to train robot things: profit. I found their hands very interesting - looks like a bunch of stuff hidden in gloves - Xiami’s Robotics-1 foundation model just released videos of users training on some pretty standard looking grippers; to the point that there are demo videos of people putting on gripper type gloves to make video to train that model. The BFL model looks like it doesn’t need that at all. Given the difficulty of the hardware side, I’ll be curious to see what they do with this. > — [vessenes on hackernews · 3 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033884) > We're barreling head-on into a crisis where humans have even less value unless they own the means of production. Dark days ahead, friends. > — [idiotsecant on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034669) > OpenAi cries in sora > — [htrp on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034655) **Source threads** - [hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033127) · 191 points · 73 comments ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [FLUX 3 Review 2026: Black Forest Labs' Multimodal Video Model, Priced Per Second](https://daily.dev/posts/flux-3-review-2026-black-forest-labs-multimodal-video-model-priced-per-second-axkbr9d2z) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [FLUX 3 Multimodal AI: How Black Forest Labs’ Model Beats Seedance 2.0 and Grok](https://daily.dev/posts/flux-3-multimodal-ai-how-black-forest-labs-model-beats-seedance-2-0-and-grok-twdasyenc) · SitePoint · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Ultimate Guide to FLUX 3 – Replicate blog](https://daily.dev/posts/the-ultimate-guide-to-flux-3-replicate-blog-zxsuaoe7e) · Replicate · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#robotics](https://daily.dev/tags/robotics), [#video-generation](https://daily.dev/tags/video-generation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/flux-3-x-mimic-the-next-generation-of-video-action-models-ixm7y902g) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"FLUX 3 x mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/flux-3-x-mimic-the-next-generation-of-video-action-models-ixm7y902g","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/flux-3-x-mimic-the-next-generation-of-video-action-models-ixm7y902g"},"datePublished":"2026-07-24T11:23:33.906Z","dateModified":"2026-07-25T01:11:02.464Z","description":"Black Forest Labs has partnered with mimic robotics to create FLUX-mimic, a video-action model built on the FLUX 3 multimodal foundation model backbone. 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