Black Forest Labs Open-source FLUX 3 Image Klein, supporting 4K generation, image editing, and reference-image input; official evaluations lead, but community and third-party test results are mixed.
Beating AI reports that Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen has released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo and opened its model weights, reducing the official example's denoising steps from 40 steps to 8 steps. The weights are licensed for non-commercial research and evaluation; commercial development requires separate authorization.
The Alibaba Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, supporting 2K image generation and continuous editing through natural language; the model weights and related API have been made available.
PANews, citing the Google DeepMind model card, reports that Google has released the Nano Banana 2.1 image generation and editing model, now available in the Gemini app and on API.