FLUX.1 Krea [dev]: An ‘Opinionated’ Text-to-Image Model

The BFL model garden just got an exciting update: We are proud to release FLUX.1 Krea [dev], developed in collaboration with Krea AI. FLUX.1 Krea [dev] is a new state-of-the-art open-weights model for text-to-image generation that overcomes the oversaturated 'AI look' to achieve new levels of photorealism with its distinctive aesthetic approach.

An ‘Opinionated’ Text-to-Image Model

FLUX.1 Krea [dev] is the open weights version of Krea 1, offering strong performance with highly distinctive aesthetics and exceptional realism. It has been trained with the goal to generate more realistic and diverse images that do not contain oversaturated textures, a known issue in text-to-image generation. Due to these properties, we call FLUX.1 Krea [dev] ‘opinionated’ - a text-to-image model that offers its users pleasant surprises in the form of diverse, visually interesting images.

Despite its idiosyncrasies, FLUX.1 Krea [dev] outperforms previous open text-to-image models and is on par with closed solutions like FLUX1.1 [pro] in human preference assessments. Moreover it is architecturally compatible with the FLUX.1 [dev] ecosystem and serves as a flexible base model for customization for down-stream applications.

The weights of FLUX.1 Krea [dev] are now available in the BFL HuggingFace repository. Commercial Licenses can are available in the BFL Licensing Portal. Our partners FAL, Replicate, Runware, DataCrunch and TogetherAI provide API endpoints for easy integration.

Key Features of FLUX.1 Krea [dev]

The key features of our most recent open-weights text-to-image model are

• State-of-the-art open text-to-image generation
• Highly distinctive aesthetics that overcome the common "AI look" problem
• Exceptional realism and image quality
• Enhanced flexibility for customization
• Compatibility with the FLUX.1 [dev] architecture and ecosystem

Collaborative Model Development

This joint project between BFL and Krea demonstrates the value of collaborative model development between foundation model and applied AI labs. By providing a specialized and flexible base model tailored for down-stream finetuning, we helped Krea to achieve previously unfeasible results.

FLUX.1 Krea [dev] showcases how targeted collaboration between foundation model developers and application-focused teams can push the boundaries of open AI image generation.

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