Alibaba Qwen · Open Image Generation
Qwen-Image-2.1
An open-weight text-to-image and image-editing model with a 7B visual generation component, adding native transparency so a single checkpoint outputs RGBA, multi-reference and local editing, and more realistic textures than the prior version. Ships under the Qwen Research License, non-commercial only, with day-zero support in ComfyUI, Diffusers and vLLM. qwen.ai renders as an empty JS shell to automated fetches, so these details come from secondary coverage rather than the announcement itself.
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