Tongyi Qianwen open-sources Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, generating images in 8 steps.

PANews October 9 news: The Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen team posted on X platform that it has open-sourced the image generation model Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, which can generate and edit images with only 8 denoising steps. The model is accelerated from the 7-billion-parameter architecture of Qwen-Image-2.1, can generate 2K images, and supports continuous natural language editing. The weights have been released on Hugging Face and ModelScope, and the Pro and Turbo APIs are also now available.