Qwen-Image-2.1 (AI model): news timeline & CVEs

Viggle/Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo — new model trending #30 on Hugging Face

Viggle releases a six-step distilled LoRA of Qwen-Image-2.1 that runs about five times faster.

Viggle released Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo v0.2.1, a Distribution Matching Distillation student of Qwen-Image-2.1 for text-to-image and instruction-driven editing with one to three reference images. The recommended rank-256 LoRA is 1.3 GB in bf16 and samples in six steps on a fixed sigma schedule, with no classifier-free guidance, versus 40 steps for the base model and about five times faster end to end. On a 96-request held-out set, v0.2.1 shows 0.98 times the base model's sample diversity and 0% composition drift, while dense text and complicated multi-reference edits can still fall short. A 680 MB rank-128 variant and ComfyUI workflows are also published.

Hugging Face trending modelsupdated Sep 23, 12:31 UTC · 3d agofirst Sep 22, 04:14 UTC · 5d agoModel release 9 sources

Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1: A 7B Open-Weight Model for Image Generation and Editing

Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model for image generation and editing.

Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1, a unified text-to-image and editing model whose diffusion transformer has 7 billion parameters across 32 single-stream DiT layers, down from the 20B Qwen-Image shipped in August 2025. The pipeline also loads an 8B Qwen3-VL encoder and a 64-channel RGBA VAE; one checkpoint handles generation, multi-reference editing of up to 10 images, local edits, and native transparency, defaulting to 2048×2048. On Qwen’s in-house Qwen-Image-Bench it scores 60.28, above listed open-weight models including FLUX 2 Max at 55.33, but below GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst at 67.01. Day-0 tooling includes Diffusers, ComfyUI, vLLM-Omni, and SGLang; commercial use requires a separate Qwen license.

MarkTechPostupdated Sep 23, 12:31 UTC · 3d agofirst Sep 21, 16:40 UTC · 5d agoModel release 9 sources

pottokao/Qwen-Image-2.1-Text-Encoder-Heretic-GGUF — new model trending #30 on Hugging Face

Community GGUF, FP8, and BF16 builds of the Qwen-Image-2.1 text encoder are trending on Hugging Face.

A community Hugging Face repo is trending with GGUF, FP8, and BF16 builds of a Heretic Qwen3-VL 8B text encoder for Qwen-Image-2.1. The Q4_K_M GGUF is 5.0 GB and needs a 1.2 GB mmproj; FP8 and BF16 safetensors are 9.3 GB and 17.5 GB. The author says a ComfyUI-GGUF add-on fixes vision-tower loading and unknown-architecture errors so the text encoder and DiT can both run as GGUF. Suggested settings are 25 steps, using CFG 1.0 or a mid-run switch to CFG 3.0 for readable text.

Hugging Face trending modelsupdated Sep 23, 12:31 UTC · 3d agofirst Sep 20, 17:08 UTC · 6d agoModel release 9 sources

Alibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight 7B-parameter image generation and editing model claimed to rival closed models.

Alibaba's Qwen AI team released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight model for image generation and editing whose visual generation component has 7 billion parameters. The team claims it beats most closed models on its own benchmark, though independent evaluations are pending, and it runs on consumer GPUs such as the RTX 3090. The model natively handles RGBA transparent images, accepts up to ten reference images for tasks like group portraits and virtual try-ons, and uses architecture changes plus KV cache reuse to speed inference. It is available on Hugging Face, GitHub, and Model Scope under a research license that bars commercial use without a separate agreement.

The Decoderupdated Sep 23, 12:31 UTC · 3d agofirst Sep 20, 16:10 UTC · 6d agoModel release 9 sources

abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-GGUF — new model trending #14 on Hugging Face

GGUF quantizations of Qwen-Image-2.1 image generation model released for local inference with multiple quantization options.

GGUF quantized versions of Qwen-Image-2.1 image generation model released on Hugging Face for local inference. The release includes multiple quantization levels (Q4_K_M to Q8_0) with companion text encoders and VAE files for ComfyUI integration. The model is marketed as fully uncensored without built-in safety checks.

Hugging Face trending modelsupdated Sep 23, 12:31 UTC · 3d agofirst Sep 20, 15:51 UTC · 6d agoModel release 9 sources

abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF — new model trending #30 on Hugging Face

An uncensored GGUF version of Qwen-Image-2.1 for local image generation is trending, featuring no content filters and optimized for ComfyUI.

A trending Hugging Face repository provides GGUF quantizations of the Qwen-Image-2.1 model for local image generation using ComfyUI. The release is explicitly 'uncensored,' lacking built-in safety checkers or content filters, and will generate sensitive imagery based on prompts. It includes various quantization levels (Q4_K_M recommended) and companion files, with a note about a current bug affecting the Q8_0 version.

Hugging Face trending modelsupdated Sep 23, 12:31 UTC · 3d agofirst Sep 20, 15:51 UTC · 6d agoAI tools & infra 9 sources

Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creation

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1, a compact open-source unified text-to-image generation and image editing model.

Alibaba's Qwen team announced Qwen-Image-2.1, described as a compact, efficient, and unified image creation model. The release combines text-to-image generation and image editing in a single model and was shared via the Qwen blog, Hugging Face, and a demo. The announcement drew modest engagement on Hacker News with 20 points and 3 comments.

Hacker News · securityupdated Sep 23, 12:31 UTC · 3d agofirst Sep 20, 13:09 UTC · 6d agoModel release 9 sources HN 20↑ · 3 comments

Comfy-Org/Qwen-Image-2.1 — new model trending #30 on Hugging Face

Comfy-Org published repackaged Qwen-Image-2.1 weights for ComfyUI, including text-to-image and image-editing workflow templates.

Comfy-Org released repackaged safetensors files of Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.1 on Hugging Face for use in ComfyUI, trending at #30. The package includes bf16 and int8 diffusion model weights, a Qwen3-VL-8B text encoder in bf16, int8, and w4a8 variants, and a bf16 VAE. Official text-to-image and image-edit workflow templates are provided via GitHub, with installation paths specified for ComfyUI model folders.

Hugging Face trending modelsSep 15, 19:41 UTC · 11d agoAI tools & infra

Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 — new model trending #30 on Hugging Face

Alibaba's Qwen open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B-parameter unified text-to-image generation and editing model with native RGBA transparency.

Alibaba's Qwen team open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1, a unified text-to-image generation and image editing model with a 7B-parameter visual generation component built from 32 single-stream DiT layers. It natively generates and edits transparent RGBA images, supports up to 10 reference images, and enables local edits via circles, annotations, or masks with identity preservation for people and products. Efficiency comes from mixed-granularity attention and prefix KV cache reuse, with improved typography, portrait lighting, and textures. Weights are available on Hugging Face and ModelScope under the Qwen Research License Agreement.

Hugging Face trending modelsSep 14, 03:47 UTC · 13d agoModel release

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