Qwen-Image 2.1 opens a 7B visual core

Qwen has open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1 with a 7B-parameter visual generation component for unified text-to-image and image editing. The official Hugging Face model card publishes the model under the Qwen Research License and documents local Diffusers use. Creative-tool builders can test an open image stack locally before paying for a hosted endpoint; yesterday’s Qwen Omni budget analysis shows why model choice still needs a workload-level cost check.