QwenLaunchAI ModelsSeptember 15, 2026

Alibaba's Qwen open-sources Qwen-Image-2.1 image model

Qwen-Image-2.1 unifies text-to-image generation and editing in one open-weights model with a 7B-parameter visual generation component (32 Single-Stream DiT layers). It natively outputs transparent RGBA images, supports up to 10 reference images for local edits, and hits 2K output across multiple aspect ratios.

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