On August 4, 2025, Alibaba’s Qwen team officially launched Qwen-Image, a 20 billion-parameter multimodal diffusion transformer (MMDiT) foundation model designed to deliver unprecedented fidelity in text-to-image synthesis and precision image editing. This release marks Alibaba’s bold entry into the open-source image generation arena, positioning Qwen-Image as a direct challenger to proprietary systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4o, […]