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Alibaba Qwen · 3 tracked releases · August 4, 2025 – September 20, 2026

At a glance

Releases tracked3
First trackedAugust 4, 2025 — Qwen-Image
LatestSeptember 20, 2026 — Qwen-Image-2.1
Span412 days
Median gap346 days between releases
Weights2 of 3 open
Record quality1 of 3 verified · how this is judged

Release cadence

One tile per tracked release, placed in the month it shipped, so the pauses in this line are the pauses in the data. Years with nothing tracked keep their row.

  1. 2025
    1. Qwen-Image, Alibaba Qwen, August 4, 2025
    1
  2. 2026
    1. Qwen-Image-3.0, Alibaba Qwen, July 16, 2026
    2. Qwen-Image-2.1, Alibaba Qwen, September 20, 2026
    2

Lineage

Ordered by announcement date, and spaced by the gap between releases, so a quiet year looks like one. Lineage is not inferred from version numbers — labs do not number consistently, so the dates decide the order.

  1. Qwen-Image

    image generation

  2. +346 days

    Qwen-Image-3.0Text in and out

    from Qwen-Image Weights Open → Proprietary

  3. +66 days

    Qwen-Image-2.1Text inputImage output

What changed

Generation to generation, from evidenced values only. A field is compared only where both releases record it — otherwise it is called out as not comparable, so a research gap never reads as a change the lab made.

Across every generation of this family, capabilities and modalities could not be compared — the values are not recorded on both sides of any step. That is a gap in this dataset, not a statement about the models. See data quality.

Qwen-Image → Qwen-Image-3.0 346 days

Weights
Open → Proprietary

Qwen-Image → Qwen-Image-2.1 412 days

No change in any field both releases record.

Not comparable here: licence (not disclosed for both releases).

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