AI development company Krea has released its image generation AI 'Krea 2' as an open model, with open weights released on June 23, 2026. Krea 2 includes two versions: Krea 2 Raw, an undistilled model for fine-tuning, and Krea 2 Turbo, a fast distilled version with wide aesthetic diversity. In Design Arena's image generation ranking, where humans evaluate quality without knowing the AI's name, Krea 2 Turbo was rated as higher quality than FLUX.2. Users can generate images locally using ComfyUI by updating to the latest version, selecting the 'Krea-2: Text to Image' template without 'Krea' in the thumbnail's upper left corner, and downloading necessary models with a total file size of 17.8GB. After restarting ComfyUI and running the workflow, a sample image is displayed. The template includes a LoRA called 'krea2-warmpastel' enabled by default, which can be bypassed. Entering a prompt such as 'A maid sitting on top of an air conditioner unit in an alley, reading a newspaper. She is Japanese. Her hair is a gradient of blue, black, and blue. The newspaper says 'GIGAZINE'' produced an image depicting the described elements exactly as instructed.