Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo open-sourced, image generation steps cut from 40 to 8.

Dongcha Beating AI News Flash: Alibaba’s Qwen has launched Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated version of Qwen-Image-2.1 that retains the original’s 7-billion-parameter image generation architecture. The official original model uses 40 denoising steps, while the Turbo version cuts this to 8 steps – an 80% reduction. Denoising refers to the process where a model gradually generates an image from random noise. However, an 80% step reduction does not translate to an equivalent 80% time cut. The ne

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