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Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo Slashes Image Generation Steps by 80%

Alibaba's Qwen team shipped an 8-step accelerated version of their 7B open-weight image model, cutting denoising work by 5x while keeping 2K output quality.

Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo Slashes Image Generation Steps by 80%
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Alibaba's Qwen team shipped an 8-step accelerated version of their 7B open-weight image model, cutting denoising work by 5x while keeping 2K output quality.

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