The holidays will bring at least one major gift to the world of multimodal AI. ModelScope, Alibaba’s leading open source model as a service platform, has now released Qwen Image Edit 2541.
The new creation from the Qwen team is now not limited to ordinary text to image synthesis, but provides users total control of understanding an image through common sense spoken commands.
Generative models are great at generating new scenes from scratch, but have a long standing history of struggling with the level of accuracy necessary to perform editing.
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Attempting to alter a particular item in an image without affecting the rest of the scene can lead to undesired hallucinations or distortions. Specifically, Qwen Image Edit 2511 addresses this “instruction adherence” problem in the visual space.
The Power of Semantic Editing
Qwen Image Edit 2511 is built on top of the powerful natural language understanding offered by the Qwen LLM family, combined with state of the art visual generative methods. This enables the model to comprehend intricate editing demands in depth.
Rather than simply making broad style changes, users can give the AI specific commands, such as “change the red car to a retro blue convertible,” “delete the person in the background,” or “make the sunny sky overcast.”
Most importantly, the model aims to perform these changes while maintaining the shape, illumination, and context of the input image, a property commonly known as “consistency.”
This release is a huge step forward for open source creator tools, offering features that used to require closed source, proprietary software.
Key Capabilities and Architecture
The model is built for multiple editing tasks:
- Object Replacement: Replace objects in high quality or seamlessly remove unwanted parts.
- Content Modification: Modify specific attributes of regions within an input image.
- Background Manipulation: Exchange entire backgrounds while preserving foreground elements.
- Style Transfer with Instructions: Apply styles described through sentences rather than reference images.
Qwen is releasing the model weights on ModelScope to allow developers and creators to build advanced image editing apps, plugins for creative tools, and automated design workflows, all without relying on third party APIs.
