Upgraded Image Model & Brand-New Interface

Kira 6.0 is our biggest image upgrade yet. Lite, Nova and Ultra now run on a new image model that makes photos look real and keeps your face yours.

Pictures now look like they came off a phone, not out of an AI: natural light, real skin, believable places. Put yourself in a new scene or a new pose and you still look like you. Edits leave the rest of the picture alone, text comes out readable, and all of it is quicker.

You do not need to change anything. The model button in the chat box now reads Lite 6.0, Nova 6.0 or Ultra 6.0. Credits are the same as before.

Kira on the web looks different too: a new home page puts every tool one click away, and the sidebar is simpler. More on that below.

Photos That Look Real

This is the biggest change in 6.0. Images look like real photos someone just took: light falls the way it does through a window or under a flash, fabrics and surfaces look like what they are, and skin keeps its texture.

• Less plastic: the waxy shine, blown-out highlights and blotchy patches that made some AI images look fake are much rarer.
• Real skin: faces keep pores, fine lines and natural tone, instead of looking airbrushed.
• Candid, not posed: selfies, dinners and nights out come out like snapshots, not studio portraits.
• Photos you upload: the biggest gain is when you start from your own picture. In testing, realism when editing a photo improved by more than half over the previous model.

Your Face Stays Yours

Upload a photo of yourself and ask for a new scene or a new pose. With 6.0, the person in the picture is still recognisably you.

• Same face, new scene: put yourself at a festival, on a beach or on a city street, and your face, hair and features come along unchanged.
• Same face, new pose: give Kira a pose to copy, and it moves you into that pose without swapping your face for someone else's.
• You, not a model: the new model holds on to the small things that make a face yours, instead of smoothing them into a generic AI face.

Edits That Leave the Rest Alone

When you ask Kira to change one thing, only that thing should change. With 6.0, it does.

• Untouched means untouched: the parts of the image you did not ask to change stay as they were, without colour shifts or a softer, washed-out look.
• Edit again and again: change the jacket, then the glasses, then the background. Each round builds on the last without the picture slowly degrading.

Clearer Text in Your Images

Posters, signs, packaging and captions inside an image now come out readable.

• Spelled right: in testing, badly garbled text dropped to 0.4% of images.
• Small and dense text: menus, labels and fine print hold together instead of melting into shapes.
• Many languages: text in scripts other than English, from Japanese to Russian to Thai, renders cleanly too.

Quicker, at the Same Credits

The new model is faster. A full-size image on Nova or Ultra used to take around half a minute; most now arrive in 15 to 30 seconds.

Prices do not change: Lite still uses 5 credits per image and Nova and Ultra use 10. Lite still makes smaller images for quick ideas, while Nova and Ultra make full-size ones.

A New Home and Sidebar on the Web

The home page on kira.art has a new layout, on computers and on phones. Everything you can do in Kira now starts from one place.

• Start from what you want to do: the cards at the top take you straight in. Kira Agent opens the editor so you can describe your idea, Edit image opens your photo with Adjust ready, and Sketch gives you a blank canvas to draw on. Photo filter and Motion Control have their own cards too.
• Every tool on one page: Remove BG, Replace BG, Expand, Upscale, Inpaint, Eraser and Redux sit in a grid below the cards. Pick a tool, choose your photo, and the editor opens with that tool ready. ImageGen, VideoGen, Video Edit and Video Extension open the chat box, so you can describe what you want first.
• Activity and Project: under the tools, Activity shows live campaigns and trending hashtags, and Project holds the work you have already started.
• A simpler sidebar: Home, Discover, Notifications and Profile. Discover is the feed, now with search right at the top.
• On your phone: the tab bar is Home, Discover, Notifications and Profile. In the editor, the Tools tab groups everything into Retouch, AI Labs and More.
• Quick edits are instant: when you confirm Adjust, Filter or Crop, the result is saved as a new version straight away, with no generation to wait for.

How It Works

1. Open Kira and choose Kira Agent on the home page, or open an image you made before.
2. Tap the model button and choose Lite, Nova or Ultra. All three are on 6.0.
3. Describe the image you want, or upload a photo and say what to change.
4. Keep editing in the same chat. Each change keeps everything else in place.

Why This Matters

Kira is for making images that look like they belong in your camera roll, not in a gallery of AI art. A model that gets light, skin and texture right, and keeps your face yours, is the biggest step toward that we can take.

It also changes how you edit. When the rest of the picture stays put, you can work the way you think: one change at a time, for as many rounds as it takes, without starting over.

And because it is faster and costs the same, you get all of that without waiting longer or paying more.

As always, your feedback helps shape what comes next.