Krea Releases Krea 2 Raw and Turbo Open Weights: 12B DiT Image Model Generating in 2 Seconds
Krea
Krea released open weights for Krea 2 on June 22, 2026 via Hugging Face under a custom community license (commercial use requires enterprise agreement for organizations with 50+ seats). Two variants: Krea 2 Raw (pre-RLHF base checkpoint from mid-training) and Krea 2 Turbo (distilled, post-trained). The 12B Diffusion Transformer generates images in approximately 2 seconds with Turbo. Krea reports 30 million users across 191 countries.
Why it matters
Krea 2 Turbo's 2-second generation speed at 12B parameters is among the fastest open-weight text-to-image models available. Releasing the Raw pre-RLHF checkpoint gives researchers access to an undistilled mid-training snapshot for fine-tuning and alignment research.
Importance: 3/5
12B DiT open weights at 2-second generation speed; unique Raw pre-RLHF checkpoint release for alignment and fine-tuning research