New Qwen Image Model, but it everyones up in arms about the license.
Qwen Research License
Looks like this is diff than they’re previous releases (Qwen-Image (August 2025) and Qwen-Image-Edit were both Apache 2.0) - but this one is “non-commercial, research and evaluation only.”
Model stats
~7B
native transparency (generate and edit with real alpha channels, pull subjects out of photos)
editing with up to 10 reference images
local edits you steer by circling or masking a region, identity preservation for people and products
output up to 2048×2048 with wide and tall aspect ratios
I’m personally interested in the steering aspect, I’ve from some designers that visual gen tools still sometimes just struggle with iterations. Maybe we’ll hear about a boost in those tools getting better with wider-impacting releases like this (remindme! 3 weeks lol)