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Alibaba claims new Qwen Image 2.1 AI model beats Google Nano Banana 2.0 with minuscule 7B parameter model

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Alibaba Cloud has released a new lightweight image generation AI model, called Qwen Image 2.1 . Sporting just 7 billion parameters, it's an extremely lean open-weight model, able to run on even older…

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