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Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creation

33 pointsby 46m agoqwen.ai
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11m agoHN ↗

The capabilities of local LLM text-to-image is honestly pretty damn impressive. IMO, I think local image generation is currently ahead of local code generation. I can get an image in seconds locally with the quality being way higher than what I'd expect from a local model. However with coding it's much slower and much less impressive. I'm sure there's a reason for this and I'm not an AI expert so I'll let the smarter folks tell me why, but that's just been my observation thus far.

9m agoHN ↗

I mean I’m sure it’s the reverse for an artist. They would be less impressed with the image and more impressed with the code quality

10m agoHN ↗

Image gen you eyeball one frame and stop, code needs hundreds of tokens all correct in sequence, one bad line and the whole thing fails.

3m agoHN ↗

Interesting in the example of assembling the Cheers team how the otherwise great result genericizes Shelley Long.

3m agoHN ↗

Very impressive, and kind of worrying a 7B model can have such capabilities. The implications are huge. And Qwen does no watermarking (yet) yeah?

1m agoHN ↗

God I love the Qwen team. Easily the most diverse set of models from all the Chinese labs. Only Gemini/DeepMind comes close.