Krea releases Krea 2, a 12B open-weights image model

Category: AI
Status: confirmed
Sources: Krea 2 technical report, Hugging Face, discussion
Summary: On 2026-06-24 Krea published open weights for Krea 2, a 12-billion-parameter diffusion-transformer image model, in two checkpoints: Krea 2 Raw, a pre-distillation mid-training checkpoint intended as a base for LoRAs and full fine-tunes, and Krea 2 Turbo, an 8-step distilled, post-trained checkpoint for fast generation at 1K to 2K resolution. The weights are on Hugging Face under a custom license that requires paid enterprise terms above 50 seats and mandates safeguards against illegal, non-consensual, and abusive imagery.
Why it matters: It adds a high-parameter, locally runnable open-weights image model with a fine-tuning-ready base checkpoint, an alternative to closed image-generation APIs.
Follow-up: Track independent quality comparisons, the license's open-source classification debate, and ecosystem fine-tunes.