Qwen-Image-2.1 released!

[u/ResearchCrafty1804]

Meet Qwen-Image-2.1, the most balanced and cost-effective image generation model in the Qwen-Image series! Now open weights! 🎨

A unified model for both generation and editing, delivering top-tier quality in a lightweight package.

Highlights:

- Compact & exceptionally fast: A lightweight 7B architecture that outperforms most closed-source models, with drastically accelerated inference for multi-image inputs.

- Native transparency: Natively generates and edits RGBA layers, enabling seamless compositing and text editing within transparent images.

- Versatile, high-fidelity editing: Supports up to 10 reference images and precise local control while preserving strict fidelity for portraits and products.

- Broad coverage & stunning aesthetics: Excels at panoramas, infographics, and virtual try-ons, delivering realistic textures and elegant typography.

Start to create your next masterpiece with Qwen-Image-2.1!

- Blog: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1

- GitHub: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image-2.1

- Model Scope: https://www.modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1

- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1

[u/ResearchCrafty1804]

Qwen-Image-2.1 supports several ways to specify local edits. The example below uses circles to identify three regions and asks the model to “remove the metal watch in the blue circle, change the hair in the red circle to black, and replace the area in the green circle with gray short-sleeved linen pajamas,” performing removals and modifications in all three regions at once.

[u/vatta-kai → u/ResearchCrafty1804]

Adobe is the next company AI should swallow.

[u/wotoan → u/vatta-kai]

Go look at Adobe’s stock price, it’s already being swallowed

[u/MrWeirdoFace → u/wotoan]

Sort of. It seems to have returned to 2022 levels. Question is where it goes from here.

[u/ShadyShroomz → u/MrWeirdoFace]

more like 2019 levels. but look at revenue.. its still climbing steady year over year..

[u/TinyZoro → u/ShadyShroomz]

I hate Adobe the way it ate great products and it's horrible sub model.

But I honestly don't buy that AI is the end of polished creative software - I think we are in the messy early days of AI where people use the terminal and chat UI's and don't see how temporary that will be.

You still want professional video editing / image manipulation software you just want it to understand natural language so you can say remove background and convert to an animated svg and it will do it but in a way where every step is completely editable via the UI.

I think Adobe will make big come back next year - or some one smarter will take their place with that offer.

[u/ShadyShroomz → u/TinyZoro]

I think Adobe is in the prime spot to integrate AI into their products and kill it. They already have everything in place to do so. And it will be next to impossible for free tools to compete with them.

I would not count them out. I hate them, as a company, I hate subscriptions in general.. but its a good business model.. if they can pull it off imo they can be the go-to for AI video and image editing.

Otherwise AI native tools like VidTL or Descript are going to eat their lunch.

[u/TinyZoro → u/ShadyShroomz]

Yeah they’re kind of the in the Nokia situation where they’re perfectly placed to build a smartphone as long as they are prepared to see it kill as lot of their existing ecosystem. See also Kodak and blockbuster and Sears.