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🖼️ Alibaba Launches Open Source Qwen Image Edit: A "ChatGPT Moment" for Images


NewBits Digest feature showcasing the Qwen series logo, highlighting the launch of Qwen Image Edit, Alibaba’s 20B open source image editing model — part of our coverage on advances in AI-driven visual editing.

Alibaba’s Qwen team has unveiled Qwen Image Edit, a 20B-parameter open source model for high-precision image editing and style transformations—while keeping original objects and characters intact.


📌 The Details


  • Two Editing Tracks:


  • 🎨 Style Transfers & Rotations: Transform entire images or change their orientation.


  • 🖊️ Targeted Area Edits: Modify specific zones without disrupting the rest.


  • Bilingual Text Editing: Modify both Chinese and English text directly in images—preserving fonts, sizes, and layouts.


  • Stackable Edits: Layer multiple changes for complex multi-step edits without restarting.


  • Benchmark Performance: Qwen Image Edit shows state-of-the-art results on several editing benchmarks. On LMArena’s Image Edit Arena it ranks competitively, though still below FLUX and GPT-Image-1.


🚀 Why Qwen Image Edit Matters


Image generation has exploded—but high-precision editing has lagged behind. Qwen’s open source release, along with the mysterious “Nano Banana” model buzzing in LMArena, suggests that natural-language-driven image editing is on the verge of a major inflection point.



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