Qwen-Image-2.1 arrives with better text rendering, portraits, and multi-view editing
Alibaba_Qwen · x · 2026-09-20
Alibaba's Qwen team officially announced Qwen-Image-2.1, claiming clear visual quality gains over its predecessor, especially in the aesthetics of text rendering and portraits.
The new model also balances performance across a variety of editing tasks — for example, given a three-view character reference, it can generate a complete storyboard. The post includes multiple text-rendering and editing examples.
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