Alibaba's 7B Qwen-Image-2.1 beats closed models in image generation
alibaba releases qwen-image-2.1, an open-weight image generation model with 7 billion parameters that claims to beat closed models, available on hugging face and github.
alibaba's qwen ai team has released qwen-image-2.1, an open-weight model for image generation and editing with a visual generation component of 7 billion parameters. it claims to beat most closed models on qwen's own benchmark. the model natively generates and edits transparent images and can handle up to ten reference images at once. qwen-image-2.1 is available on hugging face, github, and model scope, with a research license that bars commercial use.