Qwen-Image-2.1 by @Alibaba_Qwen just landed as the #1 open source model in the Image…
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Qwen-Image-2.1 by @Alibaba_Qwen just landed as the #1 open source model in the Image Edit Arena and Text-to-Image Arena! With 1367 pts in the Image Edit Arena, Qwen-Image-2.1 took the #1 spot among open. It landed #16 overall, just 3 pts from GPT-Image-1.5-high-fidelity at #15. See the leaderboard for the Text-to-Image arena below. Congrats to the @Alibaba_Qwen team on this contribution to the open source ecosystem!
Posted by Arena.ai (227.3k followers) 55 min ago · 109 likes · 9.7k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Dev Radar as Other. Tools mentioned: qwen-image-2.1, Spark-X2.5, qwen-image-2.1.
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