Qwen Releases Open-Weights Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo

Qwen released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, a 7B visual generation checkpoint that produces 2K images in just 8 denoising steps and supports natural-language edits, with open weights and Diffusers support.

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