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Qwen3.8-27B is now live on Nebius Token Factory. A compact 27B dense model for coding, research, and agent workflows, with a focus on planning and completing tasks across multiple steps. Start building: https://tokenfactory.nebius.com/endpoints?modals=endpoint-details&model-id=Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

Qwen-Image-2.1 by @Alibaba_Qwen just landed as the #1 open source model in the Image Edit Arena and Text-to-Image Arena! With 1367 pts in the Image Edit Arena, Qwen-Image-2.1 took the #1 spot among open. It landed #16 overall, just 3 pts from GPT-Image-1.5-high-fidelity at #15. See the leaderboard for the Text-to-Image arena below. Congrats to the @Alibaba_Qwen team on this contribution to the open source ecosystem!

We're excited to offer Day0 OpenVINO support for Qwen-Image-2.1 Read more about what you can accomplish here: https://ms.spr.ly/6019a5nm5

Day-0 support for @Alibaba_Qwen’s Qwen-Image 2.1 is here in SGLang-Diffusion! 🖥️ Native precision on a single RTX 4090 24GB with CPU offload - 1024×1024 generation in 18.7s and image editing in 21.7s with 22.7 GiB peak GPU memory during requests. - On an RTX PRO 6000 96GB: 8.0s generation and 9.6s editing. 🎨 Text-to-image, multi-image editing, and transparent RGBA output—all with one checkpoint. ⚡ Native inference with TP/SP, LoRA, and OpenAI-compatible APIs. 40 denoising steps, one image per request, warmed HTTP latency including PNG output. No quantization. Cookbook and GPU-specific commands below 👇

Qwen Image 2.1 is here! 🖼️ A 7B params native image generation and editing model, with up to 10 image references The model comes with it's own prompt enhancement LLMs, integrated with diffusers 🧨 and ComfyUI ▶️ on Spaces https://huggingface.co/spaces/hugging-apps/qwen-image-2-1

Qwen-Image-2.1 is now supported in ComfyUI! Open weights. One 7B checkpoint that generates and edits. → Image generation at native 2K → Instruction editing from up to 10 reference images in a single pass → RGBA output, alpha included

Qwen3.8-Flash is now available in OpenCode Go 125B/6B · 1M context · multimodal

Qwen3.8 Flash from @Alibaba_Qwen is now live on OpenRouter. A multimodal reasoning model for coding assistants, agentic workflows, visual understanding, codebase and document analysis, desktop interaction, charts, and long video. https://t.co/X5s7Mhkq8H

⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram embeddings, with just 6B activated per token. Unmatched cost-efficiency. What's new: 🥳 - Next architecture: GDN + QSA hybrid attention, Gated Residual, N-gram Embedding & Muon optimizer, serving as a precursor to the architecture used in Qwen4. - Dramatically lower training and inference costs: trained at just 1/9 the cost of Qwen3.7-Plus, while outperforming it across the board with especially strong gains in coding and office tasks. - Strong performance: scoring 58.7 on DeepSWE 1.1, 62.5 on SWE-bench Pro, 73.9 on CoWorkBench, 84.5 on AndroidWorld, and 95.7 on MathVision (with CI). - 262K native context, extensible to 1M with YaRN. We’re also releasing the weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, giving the community an early look at the new architecture we’re exploring for Qwen4.🚀 We can't wait to see what you build with Qwen3.8-Flash!👀👇 - Blog: https://t.co/M5hYypFLgJ - Technical Report: https://t.co/IF0gObIkQO - Hugging Face: https://t.co/6ow8QVAABt - ModelScope: https://t.co/tDOn2jNuFG

Over the weekend I had Codex parse 500K arXiv AI/ML papers since ChatGPT to understand which open models are used for research. In 2024, ~30% of papers mentioned an American open model and only 10% a Chinese model. Today, ~40% of papers mention a Chinese (open) LLM, and only 25-30% an American one. Chinese models are the default for research. Chinese mentions are still growing while American open models are stagnating. When looking at this data it's important to remember that papers substantially lag model releases, as research takes a long time. Qwen's steady growth is reflective of this, but so is Llama's lasting power. Some more observations: 1. Qwen has been steadily growing, and today 1/3 of papers which mention any LLM mention qwen. OpenAI's closed models are the highest overall, at ~37%. 2. Llama peaked around April of 2025 at 30% of papers which mention any LLM (including ChatGPT etc). Llama 4 was released at about the same time, and Llama has been declining since. 3. Gemini and Claude are less common than the leading open models, mentioned in 10-15% of papers puts them behind all of Qwen, Llama, and DeepSeek. Open models should be and are the foundations of open research. The % of papers mentioning any LLM have been steadily climbing since 2023. | Year | January | April | July | October | | 2023 | 10.43% | 15.39% | 18.69% | 32.18% | | 2024 | 29.70% | 33.93% | 35.70% | 44.25% | | 2025 | 39.23% | 45.28% | 44.94% | 53.52% | | 2026 | 55.49% | 57.26% | 53.14% | TBD Now over 50% of AI papers, from 10% in 2023. Other notes: - Gemma and Mistral hover around 5-10%. - Our beloved fully-open Olmo models have been ~1% since the first release in Jan. 2024. - DeepSeek has a clear jump after R1 in Jan. 2025 - Data derived from the most popular ML arXiv categories: cs. AI, cs. CL, cs. CV, cs. LG, stat. ML Just like our downloads and derivative model data, this is updated daily on the Interconnects Open Model Dashboard.