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yandex/AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base: Russian-developed competitor to Qwen 35B and DeepSeek V4 Flash

https://huggingface.co/yandex/AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base It's not a Qwen3 finetune, it's actually its own fully custom architecture. No Llama.cpp support yet sadly (Also note that this model is...

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Qwen-Image-2.1 Turned My Two Little Computers Into an Art Department. No Cloud Required.
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Qwen-Image-2.1 Turned My Two Little Computers Into an Art Department. No Cloud Required.

by Hao Yu — 2K game art, “uncensored” models, and why keeping AI on my own desk matters more than the API bill.

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Qwen-Image-2.1 Leads Open-Source Image Generation: Elevating the Entire Industry to New Heights

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Qwen-Image-2.1: Alibaba’s New AI Model Targets Smarter Image Creation
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Qwen-Image-2.1: Alibaba’s New AI Model Targets Smarter Image Creation

Image-2.1, a new open-source AI model focused on image generation and editing. The model combines text-to-image generation and ...

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What is Qwen Image 2.1? Why the Cutout Now Comes Out of the Model Instead of the Background Remover
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What is Qwen Image 2.1? Why the Cutout Now Comes Out of the Model Instead of the Background Remover

by Levent Bulusan — A 7B visual generator with native RGBA latents — 2K output, ten reference images, and a licence that sharply limits commercial use.

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CUDA: enable sparse fa for qwen4 by am17an · Pull Request #28770 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

Another day, another Qwen Flash Next speedup

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Alibaba Qwen-Image-2.1 Adds Native Transparency

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Alibaba Appoints New Head of Qwen LLM Team

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Qwen-Image-2.1 Becomes the Top Open-Source Image Generator with Enhanced Editing and Transparency

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Qwen-Image-2.1: Released for free, but license shifts to non-commercial only
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Qwen-Image-2.1: Released for free, but license shifts to non-commercial only

Hello, this is Masaki.Qwen, which has grown its fan base by distributing openly, has taken the opposite direction this time. The new image model, Qwen-Image-2.1, allows anyone to download its weights...

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The bear can dance: Qwen 3.8 27B on one 3090 for 3 weeks

TL;DR: Local agent loop, ~21 days, one RTX 3090. Task was pretty much "build a CUDA inference engine for optimized for yourself on this GPU arch." Got working kernels and benches, not a win over...

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Qwen-Image-2.1 released!

Meet Qwen-Image-2.1, the most balanced and cost-effective image generation model in the Qwen-Image series! Now open weights! 🎨 A unified model for both generation and editing, delivering top-tier...

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Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1: A 7B Open-Weight Model for Image Generation and Editing

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B diffusion transformer that handles text-to-image generation, multi-reference editing, and native RGBA transparency in one checkpoint. A prefix KV...

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Clarification on the Qwen-image-2.1 license

https://x.com/QwenDevs/status/2101917379785838660

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How capable is Qwen-Image-2.1? Comparing OpenAI's image generation with 11 use cases on a Mac
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How capable is Qwen-Image-2.1? Comparing OpenAI's image generation with 11 use cases on a Mac

Hands-on comparison of image generation AI / 2026.09.21Creating images by asking in words, just like ChatGPT. If you could do that on your own Mac, it would be appealing to be able to repeatedly test...

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[AI News Commentary] Qwen-Image-2.1 Released: Creating Images with Transparent Backgrounds Directly, AI Images Moving Closer to 'Assets'
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[AI News Commentary] Qwen-Image-2.1 Released: Creating Images with Transparent Backgrounds Directly, AI Images Moving Closer to 'Assets'

"Removing the background" is no longer a post-processing taskOn September 20, 2026, Alibaba's Qwen team released the image generation AI "Qwen-Image-2.1." It not only creates images from text but...

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Alibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters - the-decoder.com

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Qwen Says Its Interpreter Is 0.5 Seconds Faster. Show Me the File.
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Qwen Says Its Interpreter Is 0.5 Seconds Faster. Show Me the File.

by Claire Mitchell — The Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate-Flash-Realtime model page gives me a more useful starting point than a launch demo: a 49,152-token input limit…

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As of today, there are 267 recent stories about qwen ai. Recent headlines include: yandex/AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base: Russian-developed competitor to Qwen 35B and DeepSeek V4 Flash; Alibaba Qwen-Image-2.1 Adds Native Transparency; Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1: A 7B Open-Weight Model for Image Generation and Editing. This page is updated every 15 minutes with the latest coverage.

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