[dvrp]

Hello everyone.

I’m the Co-founder and CTO of Krea. We’re excited because we wanted to release the weights for our model and share it with the HN community for a long time.

My team and I will try to be online and try to answer any questions you may have throughout the day.

[mk_stjames]

Any plans to get into working with the Flux 'Kontext' version, the editing models? I think the use cases of such prompted image editing is just wildly huge. Their demo blew my mind, although I haven't seen the quality of the open weight version yet. It is also a 12B distill.

[jackphilson]

Hi. Thanks for this. What is your goal of doing so? From a business standpoint. Or is it purely altruistic?

[dvrp]

Haha-classic!

It’s simple: hackability and recruiting!

The open-source community hacking around it and playing with it PLUS talented engineers who may be interested in working with us already makes this release worth it. A single talented distributed systems engineer has a lot of impact here.

Also, the company ethos is around AI hackability/controllability, high-bar for talent, and AI for creatives - so this aligns perfectly.

The fact that Krea serves both in-house and 3rd-Party models tells you that we are not that bullish on models being a moat.

[wjrb]

I can say that it's definitely working on me! I hadn't heard of Krea before, and this is a great introduction to your work. Thanks for sharing it.

[cchance]

People underestimate how much goodwill companies gain from pushing opensource stuff out, not just from word of mouth but even picking up users for their commercial offerings too, while i could run opensource and appreciate it in a lot of cases using API's from the companies that i like (mostly ones that do opensource stuff) tends to be easier for bigger stuff...

[yieldcrv]

(unless the code repository and history is embarrassingly bad, which is most repositories)

[cubefox]

Regarding the P(.|photo) vs P(.|minimal) example, how do you actually decide this conflict? It seems to me that photorealism should be a strong default "bias".

My reasoning: If the user types in "a cat reading a book" then it seems obvious that the result should look like a real cat which is actually reading a book. So it obviously shouldn't have an "AI style", but it also shouldn't produce something that looks like an illustration or painting or otherwise unrealistic. Without further context, a "cat" is a photorealistic cat, not an illustration or painting or cartoon of a cat.

In short, it seems that users who want something other than realism should be expected to mention it in the prompt. Or am I missing some other nuances here?

[Western0]

I need model for other language than english