Comment by dvrp

2 days ago

Haha-classic!

It’s simple: hackability and recruiting!

The open-source community hacking around it and playing with it PLUS talented engineers who may be interested in working with us already makes this release worth it. A single talented distributed systems engineer has a lot of impact here.

Also, the company ethos is around AI hackability/controllability, high-bar for talent, and AI for creatives - so this aligns perfectly.

The fact that Krea serves both in-house and 3rd-Party models tells you that we are not that bullish on models being a moat.

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wjrb  2 days ago

I can say that it's definitely working on me! I hadn't heard of Krea before, and this is a great introduction to your work. Thanks for sharing it.

  • cchance  2 days ago

    People underestimate how much goodwill companies gain from pushing opensource stuff out, not just from word of mouth but even picking up users for their commercial offerings too, while i could run opensource and appreciate it in a lot of cases using API's from the companies that i like (mostly ones that do opensource stuff) tends to be easier for bigger stuff...