Nucleus☕️

maker of fine software @krea_ai

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

"i really LOVE inn-n-out!" well DO you love it that much? now if you say "i love you" to your spouse it has no meaning anymore. very sad.

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

americans really overuse the verb "love" - as a german i'm only allowed to use this word three times in my entire life

[Miguel | AP @angrypenguinPNG]

we're open-sourcing Krea 2 soon

we want to build with the community to make it the best open-source image model

[Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys]

Krea 2 Medium debuts at #6 on the Artificial Analysis Text to Image Leaderboard, trailing only models from OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA!

Krea 2 is @krea_ai's first image model family trained entirely from scratch (Krea 1 was developed in collaboration with Black Forest Labs). Krea 2 is available in two variants: Krea 2 Medium, and Krea 2 Large, which is more comparable to FLUX.2 [pro] in our arena.

Notably, Krea 2 Medium outranks the larger, more expensive Krea 2 Large in our arena. Krea describes Medium as smaller and faster, with extensive post-training that makes its outputs especially stable and consistent across generations. While Large is positioned as the more capable model, our leaderboard results align with Krea's view that Medium "handles the broadest range of use cases reliably."

Both models generate at 1K resolution and share a distinct set of generation controls via the API:

➤ Style transfer: Krea can extract the style of up to 10 reference images, with each image being able to be weighted in terms of importance

➤ Creativity Setting: A configurable API parameter (raw, low, medium, high) that sets how closely the model follows the prompt versus reinterpreting it

➤ Moodboards: A collection of images that can be collected in the application to apply a style transfer onto the image (separate from individual style reference images)

At $30 per 1k images via Krea's API, Krea 2 Medium is priced below comparable models such as Nano Banana Pro at $134/1k images or grok-imagine-image-quality at $50/1k images. Krea 2 Large is priced at $60 per 1k images, and both models' prices increase with the use of the Style Transfer and Moodboard features.

Both models are available in the Krea app, via Krea's API, and on official third-party launch partners. Congratulations to @krea_ai on the launch!

See below for comparisons between Krea 2 and other leading models in our Artificial Analysis Image Arena 🧵

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

can't stop winning

[Krea @krea_ai]

Krea 2 is now on @ArtificialAnlys

#1 image model from an independent research lab and #6 globally on text-to-image leaderboard.

open-source cooking and coming soon.

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

Pretty pictures

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

@ericzawo mein german akzent zis tu strong

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

who is inventing a noise cancelling face mask with builtin microphone so i can use wispr flow in the office

[Jay @memmaptensor]

I spent $30k and 3 months RL post-training an anime video model.

This is only step 30 out of a planned 1000 step run.

All samples are local text-to-video with no reference image/audio. Since it's based on LTX-2.3, each output takes under a minute on a single GPU.

I'm 19 and a solo researcher. Most of the budget went into ablations, reward design, and trying different configurations before reaching this setup.

The run is still extremely early, but the results already look much better than I expected.

It's compute-limited, not idea-limited.

I'm starting a company to continue scaling this and build frontier stylized video models.

If you're an investor, compute partner, video team, or someone who wants to help build this, DMs are open.

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

@Railway Ayo?

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

you gotta work with me a lil brother, you gotta be a little sassy

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

why do chatgpt/codex not ask you questions? probably one of the more subtle things where i still kind of prefer claude

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

@KyomotoFujino Yes but i expect it to also try to clarify things outside of plan mode

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

@yspritanR we're not intentionally making seedance 2 more expensive. Those are the prices that they charge us for offering the model on our API. you'll pay a similar rate on other platforms too

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

@yspritanR we made it clear that 1080p videos are not part of the promo

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

@lostinlatencyX dm if u need more credits buh

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

@_catwu why did you just leak my company's org chart?

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

@mesmerlord i never lived in berlin

[Nucleus☕️ @EsotericCofe]

@shubgaur can you please first make cursor actually work before throwing out statements like these