Hello HN,

I am Diego Rodriguez, Co-founder & CTO at Krea.

We are releasing the weights and a _juicy_ technical report---at least given current industry standards. In it we describe data curation/captioning, model architecture, post-training, RL pipelines, prompt expansion, style references, and our infrastructure in great detail.

When it comes to theweights themselves, there's actually 2 releases:

* Krea 2 Turbo. This model is both guidance- and timestep- distilled for faster inference.

* Krea 2 RAW. This model is actually meant to be hackable/fine-tunable

One of the things we think the (open) LLM community does well is release models in different sizes and also at different stages of the training pipelines; we are releasing two checkpoints at both the mid-training and post-training stage. This is rare in the image & multimedia community, so we can't help it but to feel proud of this release.

We are on par with Nano Banana in terms of image quality as per Artificial Analysis text-to-image benchmarks (https://artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-imag...).

We also attached a permissive license for individuals and small businesses.

Useful links:

- Marketing page around the OSS release: https://www.krea.ai/krea-2-open-source

- Huggingface model: https://www.krea.ai/krea-2/huggingface

- GitHub repository: https://www.krea.ai/krea-2/github

- Reddit AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1udnm0a/we...

- Technical report: https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report Thank you and I hope you enjoy this release---happy hacking!

Some of our team members will be answering questions since we are at the front page for now (thank you HN!).

Happy hacking!

Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model