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Krea 2 Technical Report
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Krea 2 Technical Report

Technical report for Krea 2 (K2), our open-weights text-to-image foundation models for creative exploration. Release includes K2 Raw and K2 Turbo open weights.

Introducing Generative Sliders
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Introducing Generative Sliders

Krea 2 now includes Generative Sliders for shaping intensity, complexity, movement, and prompt creativity while generating images.

AI in architecture studios – Krea Podcast with Nitsan Bartov
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AI in architecture studios – Krea Podcast with Nitsan Bartov

Krea Podcast episode two with Nitsan Bartov on AI in architecture studios, visual communication, video, and design culture.

Introducing Krea 2 Turbo
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Introducing Krea 2 Turbo

Generate high-quality images in just 2 seconds with a faster Krea 2 experience, compatible with style references, moodboards, and LoRAs.

"Reality is so boring" – Krea Podcast with Boldtron, Serialcut, and Remembering_orion
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"Reality is so boring" – Krea Podcast with Boldtron, Serialcut, and Remembering_orion

A short Krea podcast interview with Boldtron on AI, creative confidence, surreal image-making and creating the things you wish existed.

We are partnering with Henning Larsen
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We are partnering with Henning Larsen

Krea partners with Henning Larsen Architects to integrate AI-powered design tools into their architectural workflow.

LoRAs for Krea 2 Are Coming to Train Tool
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LoRAs for Krea 2 Are Coming to Train Tool

A preview of Krea 2 LoRA training in Krea Train, where creators can train styles, characters, and objects, then keep them private or share them publicly.

Moodboard Gallery in Krea 2 + Preview of Random and Auto
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Moodboard Gallery in Krea 2 + Preview of Random and Auto

Moodboard Gallery now includes thousands of moodboards in Krea 2, with new Random and Auto moodboard selection modes in preview.

Krea 2 API
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Krea 2 API

Krea 2 is our first foundation image model, trained completely from scratch to give users full control over the look, feel, and creative direction.

Krea 2 deep dive: exploration, style references, and moodboards
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Krea 2 deep dive: exploration, style references, and moodboards

Krea 2 is our first foundation model, built completely from scratch and focused on aesthetics and creative control. When you make an image with AI there are

Krea 2 LoRA training is now available
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Krea 2 LoRA training is now available

Train custom Krea 2 LoRAs — styles, characters, or objects — and use them in the Image tool. In beta for Max and Business subscribers.

Mood boards in Krea 2
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Mood boards in Krea 2

Mood boards are one of the new tools in Krea 2 — more than four references, deeper style + concept capture, and presets for fast exploration.

Introducing Krea 2
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Introducing Krea 2

Krea 2 is our first foundation image model built completely from scratch, focused on aesthetics, style transfer, and creative control.

Krea 2 Large shines in style fidelity
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Krea 2 Large shines in style fidelity

Contra Labs found Krea 2 Large within 0.14 points of GPT Image 2 on Style Fidelity in a four-model style-transfer benchmark.

Seedance 2.0: now on Krea
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Seedance 2.0: now on Krea

Seedance 2.0 is available on Krea on all paid plans. Best-in-class motion coherence and cinematic camera control.

Annotations in Krea Edit
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Annotations in Krea Edit

Mark up multiple regions, write a separate prompt for each one, and generate all the changes in a single pass.

The Node Agent
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The Node Agent

Describe what you want, and watch our agent make it happen. Creative workflows, without the complexity.

A New, More Powerful Krea Edit
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A New, More Powerful Krea Edit

Change specific regions, render new perspectives, adjust lighting, apply color palettes, and more. A rebuilt editing tool with fine-grained AI control.

Turn Any Image Into a Prompt
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Turn Any Image Into a Prompt

Drop any image into Krea and get a detailed, generation-ready prompt in seconds. AI vision analyzes style, lighting, composition, and more.

Krea Redesign
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Krea Redesign

Krea's biggest interface redesign to date. Unified navigation, transparent model selection, drag-and-drop workflows, customizable workspace, and a rebuilt mobile experience.

Introducing Voice Mode
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Introducing Voice Mode

Introducing Voice Mode for Krea on iPad: speak while you draw and the canvas updates in real time for faster ideation and hands-free creative iteration.

Meet Nano Banana 2, Google's Latest Image Model
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Meet Nano Banana 2, Google's Latest Image Model

Nano Banana 2 is faster, cheaper, and produces higher quality results. The next generation of Google Deepmind image model is available now.

Prompt-to-Workflow
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Prompt-to-Workflow

Create entire node workflows from text instructions. Describe what you want to build and Krea Nodes generates the workflow for you.

Realtime Edit
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Realtime Edit

Paint on canvas, stream a webcam or your screen, and watch the AI edit in real time. Realtime Edit is available now in Krea.

Krea Realtime 14B: Real-Time, Long-Form AI Video Generation
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Krea Realtime 14B: Real-Time, Long-Form AI Video Generation

We release Krea Realtime 14B, a 14-billion parameter model capable of real-time, long-form video generation.

Releasing Open Weights for FLUX.1 Krea
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Releasing Open Weights for FLUX.1 Krea

Krea announces the open release of FLUX.1 Krea, including model weights, training details, and resources to run and fine-tune the model.

A New Krea
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A New Krea

Krea announces its Series B funding.

Krea Teams: Creative Collaboration Made Easy
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Krea Teams: Creative Collaboration Made Easy

Krea Teams lets your whole studio share styles, moodboards, and generated assets in one workspace — with shared billing and admin controls.

Announcing Krea Ship Week
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Announcing Krea Ship Week

Seven days, seven releases — Krea Ship Week brought new tools, models, and features every day.

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Seedream 5.0 Pro - Live on Krea
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Seedream 5.0 Pro - Live on Krea

Seedream 5.0 Pro is an advanced image generation and editing model with web search and deep reasoning capabilities. Use it on Krea today.

10 Best Style Prompts For AI Image Generation In 2026
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10 Best Style Prompts For AI Image Generation In 2026

We spent a few weeks testing a wide range of prompts across different aesthetics and styles for image generation, and based on our experiences with them, these are the best.

30+ Best Nano Banana Prompts to Copy & Paste in 2026
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30+ Best Nano Banana Prompts to Copy & Paste in 2026

Copy 30+ Nano Banana prompts for Gemini image generation. Free templates for portraits, product shots, ads, characters, styles, poses, and multi-image blends.

8 Best Creative AI Image Generators in 2026
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8 Best Creative AI Image Generators in 2026

We spent a few weeks testing all the AI image generator tools we could get our hands on, and based on our experiences with them, these are the best.

How to Enhance Images with Magnific in Krea
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How to Enhance Images with Magnific in Krea

Magnific is useful when an image needs more resolution and more believable detail, not just a sharper resize.

How to Enhance Images with Magnific Precise in Krea
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How to Enhance Images with Magnific Precise in Krea

A simple guide to enhancing recent Assets images with Magnific Precise in Krea, including default settings and a real 2x result.

How to Enhance Images with Topaz Generative in Krea
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How to Enhance Images with Topaz Generative in Krea

A simple guide to enhancing images with Topaz Generative in Krea, using a recent Assets image and a real 2x result.

How to Generate Images With Style References in Krea
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How to Generate Images With Style References in Krea

Learn how to use Style transfer presets with Krea 2 Large to generate images guided by a visual style reference.

How to Quickly Upscale Images in Krea
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How to Quickly Upscale Images in Krea

Learn how to use Quick Upscale from a Krea Image session.

How to Remove an Image Background in Krea
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How to Remove an Image Background in Krea

Learn how to remove an image background in Krea Edit by selecting an asset, right-clicking it, and downloading a clean cutout.

How to Create an API Token in Krea
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How to Create an API Token in Krea

Learn how to switch to Krea API mode, create an API token, name it, and store it safely after creation.

How to Create a Moodboard in Krea
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How to Create a Moodboard in Krea

Create a Krea moodboard from Favorites, analyze the style, and generate images with the finished visual direction.

AI Tools for Generating Lifestyle Product Shots
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AI Tools for Generating Lifestyle Product Shots

If you are short on time: Krea 2 inside Krea is the best fit when you want flexible lifestyle product shots, campaign concepts, and editable product scenes in

AI Tools for Creating Product Mockups and Packaging Renders
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AI Tools for Creating Product Mockups and Packaging Renders

If you are short on time: Krea 2 is the best fit when you want fast creative directions for product mockups, packaging concepts, and launch visuals. Use a

AI Tools That Generate Floor Plans and Building Concepts
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AI Tools That Generate Floor Plans and Building Concepts

Compare AI floor plan tools for layouts, building concepts, interiors, pricing, and sketch-to-plan workflows, with examples generated in Krea.

Best AI for Generating Photorealistic Architectural Renders
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Best AI for Generating Photorealistic Architectural Renders

Photorealistic architectural rendering is one of the clearest places where AI can save time, but the phrase can mean a few different things. Sometimes you

K2 Studio: Taste-Driven AI Image Generation in Krea
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K2 Studio: Taste-Driven AI Image Generation in Krea

A preview of K2 Studio, Krea’s taste-driven image generation workspace for building reusable aesthetic direction with Krea 2.

Krea Agent Beta: A Workspace Agent for Creative Teams
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Krea Agent Beta: A Workspace Agent for Creative Teams

Krea Agent is entering beta: a workspace-aware AI agent designed to help creative teams move faster inside Krea.

Animate Krea 2 illustrations with Seedance 2.0
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Animate Krea 2 illustrations with Seedance 2.0

Turn Krea 2 stills into fluid animations with Seedance 2.0 — all inside a single Krea workflow.

Anime backgrounds with Krea 2
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Anime backgrounds with Krea 2

Make anime-style scenic backgrounds with Krea 2 — Shinkai skies, school hallways, train platforms, isekai landscapes for indie creators.

Architectural styles with Krea 2
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Architectural styles with Krea 2

Render any architectural style in Krea 2 — modernist, brutalist, Japandi, Mediterranean, mass timber, mid-century, postmodern.

Character design with Krea 2
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Character design with Krea 2

Character design is the foundation of every anime project. Krea 2 is built for this kind of pipeline work.

Interior design with Krea 2
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Interior design with Krea 2

Krea 2 renders interiors with material accuracy that holds up to design-publication scrutiny.

Krea 2 vs NijiJourney for anime
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Krea 2 vs NijiJourney for anime

If you make anime art with AI, you are choosing between a handful of models. NijiJourney is the established name. Krea 2 is the new one. This article is an hone

Krea 2 and Nano Banana 2, side by side
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Krea 2 and Nano Banana 2, side by side

In 2026, you can finally stop asking which image model is the best one . The interesting question is which two you should keep open at the same time. Inside Kre

Made with Krea 2 moodboards
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Made with Krea 2 moodboards

A moodboard, in Krea 2, is a way to encode taste into the model. You drop in a curated set of and the system reads the whole set as a single creative direction.

Creators react to Krea 2 LoRAs
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Creators react to Krea 2 LoRAs

First reactions to the Krea 2 LoRA beta — from day-one experiments to a film-work take on consistency.

Concept and massing studies with Krea 2
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Concept and massing studies with Krea 2

Massing is the moment in a project when the only thing that matters is form. No materials. No windows. No landscape. Just volumes, in space, in relationship to

From sketch to anime panel with Krea 2
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From sketch to anime panel with Krea 2

The bottleneck in indie manga and comic work is not the idea. It is not the storyboard. It is finishing — taking a rough panel sketch and turning it into a poli

Krea 2 sketch to render — architecture
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Krea 2 sketch to render — architecture

The fastest distance between an architect's idea and a client's "yes" is a render. The slowest distance is the days of CAD, material assignment, lighting, and p

Krea 2 vs Lumion, Enscape, D5 Render
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Krea 2 vs Lumion, Enscape, D5 Render

If you produce architectural renders, you have probably evaluated Lumion, Enscape, D5 Render, or Twinmotion at some point. These are excellent tools — built spe

Materials and lighting studies with Krea 2
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Materials and lighting studies with Krea 2

How to use Krea 2 for rapid material and lighting studies — stone, concrete, timber, glass — without re-rendering your entire scene.

Site context renders with Krea 2
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Site context renders with Krea 2

The hardest render in architecture is the one with neighbours. A standalone building on a clean lot is easy. The same building between two existing facades, wit

Studio anime aesthetics with Krea 2
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Studio anime aesthetics with Krea 2

Anime is not one look — each studio has its own palette, line weight, and emotional register. See how Krea 2 reproduces Ghibli, Trigger, MAPPA, and more.

Exploratory prompting in Krea 2
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Exploratory prompting in Krea 2

Krea 2 rewards curiosity — start vague, see what comes back, and follow the threads you like.

Krea 2 in the wild: community standouts
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Krea 2 in the wild: community standouts

This week the Krea 2 community pushed the model in three directions — minimal prompts, mood-driven moodboards, and Krea 2 to Seedance 2.0 pipelines.

More early Krea 2 community work
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More early Krea 2 community work

Four more pieces from the Krea 2 community: cowboys via swapped srefs, a Kling 3.0 video loop, painterly portraits, and cinematic seaside frames.

Krea 2 community week 3
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Krea 2 community week 3

Tanzim benchmarks Krea 2, Lloyd Creates explores ethereal moods, and AIdriving pushes style transfer past 80%.

How Architecture Studios Use AI to Render Concepts in Minutes
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How Architecture Studios Use AI to Render Concepts in Minutes

See how architecture teams use Krea 2 for massing studies, material explorations, and client-ready renders — from sketch to presentation-quality visual in seconds, not hours.

Style references in Krea 2
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Style references in Krea 2

How S-Refs work in Krea 2 — extracting style from a single image and applying it to any new prompt, with control over strength.

A London noir, shot in Krea 2
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A London noir, shot in Krea 2

Filmmaker VictorInFocus pasted a Seedance video prompt into Krea 2 and got back a contact sheet of cinematic stills. Here's what happened, and the moodboard.

Krea 2 vs Midjourney: which AI image generator is right for you?
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Krea 2 vs Midjourney: which AI image generator is right for you?

How Krea 2 compares to Midjourney in 2026: style control, workflow, feature scope, quality, and pricing.

Krea at Cannes Film Festival
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Krea at Cannes Film Festival

We're heading to Cannes. Our co-founder and CTO Diego Rodriguez will be live on stage at the American Pavilion, building visuals in real time as composer Roahn

Krea 2: First Experiments from the Community
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Krea 2: First Experiments from the Community

A collection of early creative experiments from the Krea 2 community.

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On being the underdog

Our response to Fast Company's "underdog AI model" piece — why taste, not scale, is the moat behind Krea 2.