Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-Step 7B Image Model

Alibaba has released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an updated 7B parameter model that completes image generation and editing tasks in eight denoising steps. This release significantly accelerates output speed by reducing the required steps by five times compared to the original 40-step base model.