FLUX.2 Klein ships preloaded on ASUS ProArt laptops

Black Forest Labs announced that FLUX.2 [klein] 4B will come preloaded on ASUS's next-generation ProArt laptops with RTX GPUs. The company calls it the first time a FLUX model has shipped on consumer hardware. The deal is a partnership with ASUS and NVIDIA, and the laptop lineup debuted at Computex 2026 in Taipei.

The model is built into ASUS's MuseTree app and has been optimized for the devices. It runs natively on RTX hardware using NVIDIA's optimizations, and it needs no API or internet connection.

Black Forest Labs gave a performance target, not a measured result: image generation in under five seconds on a laptop with 8GB of VRAM, even with other professional apps running in the background. The post includes no benchmarks, comparisons with cloud inference, or details on output quality at that speed.

The company is aiming the product at photographers, video editors and designers, ASUS's core ProArt customers. It named three use cases where local inference helps: privacy-sensitive work, working offline, and low-latency iteration during live sessions. Black Forest Labs describes FLUX.2 [klein] as its fastest model by design.

The company said it is expanding co-development partnerships to bring on-device FLUX to other form factors, and invited hardware makers to contact it about optimizing models for their devices. It has not named any other partners. The post also does not give laptop prices, a shipping date, or say whether larger FLUX.2 variants will follow.