Qwen-Image

Text rendering is where Qwen-Image stands apart: Alibaba's Qwen team trained the 20B parameter MMDiT foundation model to lay out accurate paragraph-level text inside generated images, in both English and Chinese, a task most diffusion models still fail. Released in August 2025 under Apache 2.0, the family has expanded quickly: Qwen-Image-Edit added precise instruction-based editing, the Edit-2511 update brought multi-image input and stronger character consistency and geometric reasoning, and Qwen-Image-2512, released December 31, 2025, improved human realism, fine texture, and text layout, keeping the base model among the strongest open image generators available. Everything runs through Hugging Face diffusers with transformers 4.51.3 or newer, and because the full BF16 model is heavy, the community supplies FP8 and GGUF quantizations plus ComfyUI workflows that bring it to consumer GPUs. Technical reports are on arXiv, with blog posts and hosted demo spaces accompanying each release. The GitHub repository has about 8,200 stars, and the model anchors the open ecosystem for text-heavy image generation and editing.