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Qwen-Image-2.1 Fits on Far Less Hardware. It Also Dropped Apache 2.0.

Qwen released a new image model today at 7.1 billion parameters, roughly a third the size of everything else in the line, with ComfyUI support the same afternoon. Every earlier Qwen image release was Apache 2.0. This one is research and evaluation only, and we read the licence file rather than the thread about it.

September 20, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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