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Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo released!

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Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, create and edit images in just 8 denoising steps! Open weights now available! Built on Qwen-Image-2.1, Turbo is an accelerated checkpoint on the same 7B visual generation architecture. Fewer steps does not mean lower quality: it still generates strong 2K images from text, and…

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  1. 2026-10-09 13:28 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo · Hugging Face
  2. 2026-10-09 13:27 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo released!

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