Krea X Comfy Live Summary: RAW Model, Licensing, and Future Plans

Krea 2’s RAW model was highlighted during a live session with the ComfyUI team, emphasizing its importance for the open‑source community lacking high‑quality base models. The Krea team explained that the commercial license remains in effect until the model’s revenue reaches $1 million, after which it will become open‑source to fund future development. They plan to release Krea 3 as a pixel‑space model, removing the VAE for cleaner outputs. An edit model is also in development, with potential bbox capabilities similar to Ideogram 4, and will be released as a RAW edit model in the coming months. The team acknowledged that Krea 2 sometimes fails to follow prompts due to an embedded safety filter that triggers false positives. They used over a thousand H100 GPUs to train Krea 2, and chose the Qwen Image VAE for better performance on non‑realistic images. The discussion also touched on a style‑transfer adapter that will not be released locally. The Krea team intends to keep the license permissive for small creators while monetizing larger commercial use cases. The session underscored the balance between open‑source innovation and sustainable funding.