# Krea — Releasing Open Weights for FLUX.1 Krea

- Company: Krea (krea.ai)
- Announced: 2025-07-31
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.krea.ai/blog/flux-krea-open-source-release
- Record: https://forck.live/items/15094-releasing-open-weights-for-flux-1-krea
- Subject: Krea 2 / AI creative platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: FLUX.1-Krea [dev], Krea 1, FLUX.1-dev

Krea released open weights for FLUX.1-Krea [dev], a guidance-distilled checkpoint compatible with FLUX.1-dev. The model was trained with Black Forest Labs to prioritize aesthetics and photorealism, aiming to reduce the 'AI look' in generated images.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.krea.ai/blog/flux-krea-open-source-release:

> Today, we're releasing an open version of Krea 1, our first image model trained in collaboration with Black Forest Labs to offer superior aesthetic control and image quality. This checkpoint is a guidance distilled model fully compatible with FLUX.1-dev allowing seamless integration with the existing ecosystem.

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