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QwenLM/Qwen-Image

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Source: https://github.com/qwenlm/qwen-image

Structured fields

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  "archived": false,
  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "usefulness": "Official repo for the Qwen-Image family: a 20B MMDiT foundation model for complex text rendering (notably Chinese) and precise editing, with dated variants (Edit, Edit-2509, Layered, Edit-2511, 2512) and ComfyUI/Diffusers/SGLang/vLLM-Omni support. One of the strongest permissively licensed open options for typography-heavy imagery.",
  "source_type": "repository",
  "availability": "available",
  "dependencies": [
    "diffusers (latest)",
    "transformers>=4.51.3"
  ],
  "source_owner": "Alibaba Qwen team",
  "next_check_at": "2026-10-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "hardware_notes": "README cites 4GB-VRAM inference via DiffSynth-Studio offload and FP8 quantization (community tool claim); base examples use bfloat16 on CUDA, no official VRAM figure.",
  "known_limitations": [
    "Low-VRAM claims are community-tool claims quoted by the README, not tested.",
    "Qwen-Image-2.0 weights availability unconfirmed."
  ],
  "upstream_updated_at": "2026-02-10T07:37:37.000Z"
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Repo dates: Qwen-Image 2025-08-04, Qwen-Image-Edit 2025-08-18, Edit-2509 2025-09-22, Layered 2025-12-19, Edit-2511 2025-12-23, Qwen-Image-2512 2025-12-31; Qwen-Image-2.0 announced 2026-02-10 and the page does not say whether weights are released. source
[upstream_claim] README: Diffusers day-0 support, ComfyUI native support since 2025-08-05; Diffusers LoRA/fine-tuning support described as in development; DiffSynth-Studio cited for inference within 4GB VRAM via layer-by-layer offload and for LoRA/full training. source
[upstream_claim] Hugging Face model card: Apache 2.0, 20B parameters, BF16 safetensors, strong text rendering especially Chinese. source
[upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
code	Apache-2.0	permitted	permitted	permitted	unknown	https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image Repo page labels Apache-2.0; LICENSE text not separately fetched.
model_weights	Apache-2.0	permitted	permitted	permitted	unknown	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image Qwen-Image weights card lists Apache 2.0. Variant cards other than Edit-2511 were not inspected; license for each variant should be verified individually.

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