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Alibaba released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight image generation model with 7B parameters that claims to beat closed models.

It supports transparency and up to ten reference images, but its research license bars commercial use.

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Alibaba released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight image generation model with 7B parameters that claims to beat closed models. It supports transparency and up to ten reference images, but its research license bars commercial use.