Alibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters
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Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight model that generates and edits images on powerful consumer GPUs, with support for transparency and up to ten reference images at once. Its research license bars commercial use, which requires a separate Qwen license. The article Alibab…
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- 2026-09-20 16:10 · The Decoder
Alibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters