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.
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.