Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-Step 7B Image Model

Alibaba's Qwen team launched Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, a 7B parameter image generation model that cuts denoising steps from 40 to 8, enabling 5x faster 2K image creation and editing with an open checkpoint under a research license.