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)
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