🚀 Meet Qwen-Image — a 20B MMDiT model for next-gen text-to-image generation. Especially strong at creating stunning graphic posters with native text. Now open-source.
🔍 Key Highlights:
🔹 SOTA text rendering — rivals GPT-4o in English, best-in-class for Chinese
🔹 In-pixel text generation — no overlays, fully integrated
🔹 Bilingual support, diverse fonts, complex layouts
🎨 Also excels at general image generation — from photorealistic to anime, impressionist to minimalist. A true creative powerhouse.
Blog: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image/
Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image
Model Scope: https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen-Image/summary
GitHub: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image
Technical Report: https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-Image/Qwen_Image.pdf
WaveSpeed Demo: https://wavespeed.ai/models/wavespeed-ai/qwen-image/text-to-image
Demo: https://modelscope.cn/aigc/imageGeneration?tab=advanced
But can it make a Poster of Tank man on Tianamen Square?
In fact it can but it makes Chinese propaganda pics first. Just ask and it makes pictures of a soldier in uniform on a tank with a red star. But ask more specific about the massacre and this will fall out:
Huh :) the output quality is actually pretty impressive. It rivals Flux for sure.
How are you running this?
One of the demo links from above
TBH I haven’t used any local image generators like Flux etc in a long time so I’m not even sure how to input this in, I think LM Studio is still a way off
What do you use?
I actually run Qwen locally using LM Studio. Even then it won’t say anything that it deems as “controversial”. If you want to use Flux, I’ll share my LM Studio workflow later when I’m back at my ML Workstation
You can’t run Qwen-image in LM Studio? It doesn’t support image generation:
If you want to use Flux,
Oh, sorry - Brainfart. I meant Comfy UI… I do use Qwen on LM Studio and it’s censored.
ah awesome, let me check! i used qwen for ages before flicking over to GLM and I’ve not been impacted but it’s not like i ask about chinese government things very often
i finally got to the workstation. after instaling ComfyUI you need to add the ComfyUI-GGUF Node https://github.com/city96/ComfyUI-GGUF if you’re using Apple Silicon - i didn’t manage to get it to work otherwise because of the data type conversion.
Finally this is the Workflow I use for image generation: https://voidbin.com/paste/6f15026e-d18d-4542-97aa-2a93acc97af6 just save it as a json.