Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea (krea.ai)

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

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.

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?

I need model for other language than english

The model looks incredible!

Regarding this part: > Since flux-dev-raw is a guidance distilled model, we devise a custom loss to finetune the model directly on a classifier-free guided distribution.

Could you go more into detail on the specific loss used for this and any other possible tips for finetuning this that you might have? I remember the general open source ai art community had a hard time with finetuning the original distilled flux-dev so I'm very curious about that.

From a traditional media production background, where media is produced in separate layers, which are then composited together to create a final deliverable still image, motion clip, and/or audio clip - this type of media production through the creation of elements that are then combined is an essential aspect of expense management, and quality control. Current AI image, video and audio generation methods do not support any of that. ForgeUI did briefly, but that went away, which I suspect because few understand large scale media production requirements.

I guess my point being: do you have any (real) experienced media production people working with you? People that have experience working in actual feature film VFX, animated commercial, and multi-million dollar budget productions?

If you really want to make your efforts a wild success, simply support traditional media production. None of the other AI image/video/audio providers seem to understand this, and it is gargantuan: if your tools plugged into traditional media production, it will be adopted immediately. Currently, they are tentatively and not adopted because they do not integrate with production tools or expectations at all.

I recently ran a training experiment using the same dataset, number of steps, and epochs on both Flux Dev and Flux Krea models.

What stood out to me was that Flux Dev followed the text prompts more accurately, whereas Krea’s generations were more loosely aligned or "off" in terms of prompt fidelity with deformations in body type and the architecture.

Does this suggest that Flux Krea requires more training to achieve strong text-to-image alignment compared to Flux Dev? Or is it possible that Krea is optimized differently (e.g. for style, detail, or artistic variation rather than strict prompt adherence)?

Curious if anyone else has experienced this or has any insight into the differences between these two. Would love to hear your thoughts

Off topic but did you really hide scroll bars on the website? Why...?

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hello Erwann, great work! I have a very technical question just for you: how are you today?

Describing it as "Octopus DJ with no fingers" got rid of the hands for me, but interestingly, also removed every anthropomorphized element of the octopus, so that it was literally just an octopus spinning turntables.