# Krea 2 Arrives as Open-Weights Text-to-Image Model

> The image-generation startup releases its second-generation diffusion model in raw and turbo variants under open weights.

Published by The Open Weights on Jun 18, 2026. Canonical: https://theopenweights.com/news/krea-2-g1jz

## Key facts

- Company: Krea
- Model: Krea 2
- Version: 2
- Category: Text → Image
- Modalities: Text → Image
- License: Other (Open weights, commercial use allowed)
- Architecture: Krea2Pipeline
- Precision: BF16
- Weights size: 26.3 GB
- Significance: notable
- Published: 2026-06-18
- Last verified: 2026-07-10
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Raw
- Canonical URL: https://theopenweights.com/news/krea-2-g1jz

Krea has published **Krea 2**, the latest generation of its text-to-image diffusion system, as a set of open weights on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Raw). The release covers two variants: a raw model aimed at maximum quality and control, and a turbo version tuned for faster generation.

The split between raw and turbo is a familiar pattern in modern diffusion pipelines. Raw models typically expose the full denoising process, giving practitioners room to tune sampling steps and guidance for fidelity. Turbo variants trade some of that flexibility for distilled, low-step inference that produces images in a fraction of the time — useful for interactive tools and high-volume workloads.

## Why it matters

Open-weights image models remain comparatively scarce next to the crowded field of open language models, so each credible entrant widens the options for developers who want to run generation locally or fine-tune on their own data.

- **Raw variant:** geared toward quality and granular control over sampling.
- **Turbo variant:** optimized for speed and lower-latency generation.
- **Open weights:** the model is downloadable directly, rather than locked behind a hosted API.

Krea has built its reputation on consumer-facing creative tooling, and shipping the underlying weights signals a willingness to meet the developer community where it works. Full license terms, hardware requirements, and any accompanying benchmarks should be confirmed on the official [model card](https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Raw) before deployment.

## Get the model

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Raw)
- [Hacker News](https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report)

## Sources

- [krea/Krea-2-Raw](https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Raw) — Hugging Face, Jun 18, 2026
- [Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model](https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report) — Hacker News, Jun 23, 2026

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