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Alibaba’s Qwen open-sources Qwen-Image-2.1 for unified image generation and editing

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-source image model that combines text-to-image generation and image editing in a single workflow. The model’s visual generation component has 7 billion parameters. Qwen-Image-2.1 natively supports transparent image generation and editing, loc…

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  1. 2026-09-21 05:59 · TechNode
    Alibaba’s Qwen open-sources Qwen-Image-2.1 for unified image generation and editing

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