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>>vmatsi+(OP)
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.

>>dvrp+Y3
Hi. Thanks for this. What is your goal of doing so? From a business standpoint. Or is it purely altruistic?

>>jackph+km1
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.

>>dvrp+so1
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.

>>wjrb+9r1
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...

>>cchanc+ns1
(unless the code repository and history is embarrassingly bad, which is most repositories)