Alibaba ships ControlNet Union for Qwen-Image: one checkpoint for canny, depth, pose & more
multimodalart · x · 2026-09-25
Alibaba released ControlNet Union for Qwen-Image-2.1 — a single checkpoint supporting canny, depth, pose, lineart, scribble and more control types, letting users keep a photo's structure or pose while re-imagining everything else. It's live on Hugging Face Spaces. Multimodalart noted he's "not sure ControlNets are still needed but always get one-shotted by them," reigniting debate over the value of ControlNet-style conditioning in newer image models.
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