{"slug": "alibabas-qwen-open-sources-qwen-image-2-1-for-unified-image-generation-and", "title": "Alibaba’s Qwen open-sources Qwen-Image-2.1 for unified image generation and editing", "summary": "Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-source image model that unifies text-to-image generation and image editing in a single workflow, with a 7 billion parameter visual generation component. Qwen-Image-2.1 natively supports transparent image generation and editing, local edits, and composition using up to 10 reference images, with native 2K output across multiple aspect ratios. The model is available through the Qwen repository, Hugging Face and ModelScope, and Qwen said it is designed to balance image quality, inference efficiency and cost.", "body_md": "Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-source image model that combines text-to-image generation and image editing in a single workflow. The model’s visual generation component has 7 billion parameters.\n\nQwen-Image-2.1 natively supports transparent image generation and editing, local edits, and composition using up to 10 reference images. Qwen said the model is designed to balance image quality, inference efficiency and cost.\n\nThe model supports native 2K output across multiple aspect ratios and is available through the Qwen repository, Hugging Face and ModelScope. [[Qwen](https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1)]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-open-sources-qwen-image-2-1-for-unified-image-generation-and", "canonical_source": "https://technode.com/2026/09/21/alibabas-qwen-open-sources-qwen-image-2-1-for-unified-image-generation-and-editing/", "published_at": "2026-09-21 05:59:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-21 06:22:21.367717+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-products", "artificial-intelligence", "computer-vision"], "entities": ["Alibaba", "Qwen", "Qwen-Image-2.1", "Hugging Face", "ModelScope"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-open-sources-qwen-image-2-1-for-unified-image-generation-and", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-open-sources-qwen-image-2-1-for-unified-image-generation-and.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-open-sources-qwen-image-2-1-for-unified-image-generation-and.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-open-sources-qwen-image-2-1-for-unified-image-generation-and.jsonld"}}