Qwen-Image 2.1 goes open source with 50 early access spots
multimodalart · x · 2026-09-18
Qwen team announced that Qwen-Image 2.1 will be released as open weights, returning to open-source publishing, with 50 early access spots opened for users to try it before the official release.
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