Alibaba Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an Open-Source 8-Step Image Model

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Alibaba open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7 billion parameter text-to-image and editing model, on September 20, 2026. Nineteen days later, on October 9, the company released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-step version of the same model. The model is notable for generating images with native transparency, meaning it can produce images with real alpha channels without requiring separate editing tools. Its smaller size, at roughly a third the parameters of its predecessor, is designed to run efficiently on mid-range consumer GPUs. The open-source release includes both Pro and Turbo API versions.

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