Qwen-Image-2.1 Going Open Source: Weights and Code in 10 Hours
multimodalart · x · 2026-09-20
Alibaba's Qwen team announced that Qwen-Image-2.1 will be fully open sourced, with weights and code dropping after a 10-hour countdown. ModelScope and Qwen dev accounts promoted the release, encouraging developers to download, run locally, and build on top of it.
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