Krea releases Krea 2 Raw and Turbo as open weights — enterprise 2K image gen in 2 seconds

What happened

Krea AI on June 22-23, 2026 released open-weights versions of its frontier image model Krea 2 as two variants: Raw and Turbo. Both have 12B parameters and are available on Hugging Face under a custom Community License.

Context and impact

Krea 2 Raw is an unaligned checkpoint for fine-tuning — a blank canvas for developers. Krea 2 Turbo is an 8-step distilled checkpoint that generates 2K images in roughly 2 seconds on consumer hardware. The custom license allows free commercial use up to 50 seats; larger firms need an enterprise license.

Details

• 12B parameters, Diffusion Transformer architecture
• Raw: pre-RLHF checkpoint, ideal for fine-tuning
• Turbo: 8-step distillation, ~2 seconds per 2K image
• Available on Hugging Face + GitHub
• Krea 2 Community License (free commercial use under 50 seats)