WTH, Qwen just dropped a 7B open-weight image model that beats Google’s Nano Banana 2.
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WTH, Qwen just dropped a 7B open-weight image model that beats Google’s Nano Banana 2. Qwen-Image-2.1 does both image generation + editing, supports up to 10 reference images and can natively generate AND edit transparent RGBA images. All of this in just 7B.
Posted by Choblin (2.7k followers) 1 h ago · 7 likes · 473 views · view the original post on X. Kept by the AI Radar as AI image. Tools mentioned: Qwen Studio, qwen-image-2.1, Intern-S2-397B, qwen-image-2.1.
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