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Alibaba cuts Qwen image model to 7B parameters, folds generation and editing into one checkpoint
Alibaba's Qwen Team open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20, 2026. The unified text-to-image generation and editing model uses 7 billion parameters across 32 single-stream diffusion…
WHY IT MATTERS The release combines generation and editing in one checkpoint, making the model easier to use as a single open-source system.
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7D · 18 senior moves tracked
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Humanoid robot industry gets a baseline: 7,000 units sold against plans for tens of thousands
The humanoid robot industry now has a baseline: roughly 7,000 units sold globally in 2025, many of them parked in labs rather than doing productive work. That figure lands in the same week Tesla is…
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