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Qwen-Image (20B MMDiT)

Alibaba (Qwen) · 4 August 2025

20B MMDiT image model with native text rendering for English and Chinese, opened under Apache 2.0 with a technical report.

Open image foundation model focused on multi-line and paragraph-level text rendering plus consistent editing through a multi-task training scheme. Followed by Edit on 2025-08-19 and, through 2026-09, by Edit-2509, 2511, Layered, 2512, 2.0, 3.0 and 2.1.

Date
Monday, 4 August 2025
Lab
Alibaba (Qwen)
Kind
open-weights
Access
open weights

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Technical reportarXiv 2508.02324
Submitted 2025-08-04; model about 20B parameters
company

Blog dated 2025-08-04 (Hugging Face repo 2025-08-02). Benchmark claims ('outperforms existing models') are Alibaba's and no table was reproduced.

Sources

  1. qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image/
  2. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02324
  3. huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2509

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