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Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, Efficient, and Unified Image Creation

Qwen News · article · Sep 20, 2026 · UTC

We are excited to open-source Qwen-Image-2.1, an image model in the Qwen family that balances generation quality, inference efficiency, and cost. Qwen-Image-2.1 unifies text-to-image generation and image editing in a single model, with just 7B parameters in its visual generation component and native support for generating and editing transparent images. This update introduces four key improvements

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First collected: 2026-09-23T00:41:11.323Z. This is not the publication date.