Qwen-Image-2.1 Announced as an Open-Weights Image Model
Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-09-20 · Open on X
Topics: Industry Trends & Job Market, LLM Fundamentals · Level: beginner
Summary
The post shares news that Qwen will open-source Qwen-Image-2.1 on ModelScope, releasing both the weights and the code. Learners can download it, run it themselves and build on it.
Key points
- Qwen-Image-2.1 is an image-generation model from the Qwen team.
- The release includes both the model weights and the code.
- It will be hosted on ModelScope under the Qwen organization.
Resources mentioned
- Qwen-Image-2.1 · tool · github.com · free
Qwen's open-source image-generation model, released with weights and code on ModelScope.
Also in: Run Qwen-Image-2.1 locally on 12GB VRAM with Unsloth GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) - ModelScope · website · modelscope.cn · free
Alibaba's model hub that hosts open models such as the Qwen family.
Also in: Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro Released: Text-to-Image Model Update (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
Try this
- Download Qwen-Image-2.1 from ModelScope once it's released and try running it locally.
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