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Alibaba publishes Qwen-Image-2.1 on Hugging Face

Alibaba released Qwen-Image-2.1, a text-to-image and image-editing model, on Hugging Face. The model has about 28,000 downloads and 1,978 likes.

First seen 14 Sep, 03:47 UTC on Hugging Face · Qwen5 sourcesLast update 30d ago

What the sources say

Linked, never rewritten. Official means the lab itself.

Official3

Hugging Face · Qwen· 14 Sep, 03:47Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 published on Hugging FaceHugging Face · Qwen· 20 Sep, 08:45Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-PE-T2I published on Hugging FaceHugging Face · Qwen· 20 Sep, 08:46Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-PE-I2I published on Hugging Face

Press1

The Decoder· 20 Sep, 16:10Alibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters

Community1

Hacker News· 20 Sep, 13:09Qwen Image 2.1735 points · 198 comments

How it unfolded

Every source in the order it appeared. Times in UTC.

14 Sep 03:47Hugging Face · Qwen Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 published on Hugging Face20 Sep 08:45Hugging Face · Qwen Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-PE-T2I published on Hugging Face20 Sep 08:46Hugging Face · Qwen Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-PE-I2I published on Hugging Face20 Sep 13:09Hacker News Qwen Image 2.120 Sep 16:10The Decoder 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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