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Qwen Image 2.1

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  1. jfoster · · focus · HN ↗
    A lot of the previous Qwen models seem to have used Apache licenses, among others:

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Qwen#List_of_models" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Qwen#List_of_models

    Unfortunately, it looks like this model is using a much more restrictive license:

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;QwenLM&#x2F;Qwen-Image-2.1&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;QwenLM&#x2F;Qwen-Image-2.1&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE

    1. plufz · · focus · HN ↗
      What are the top image models that still use a less restrictive license today?
      1. vunderba · · focus · HN ↗
        Boogu-Image has the Apache 2.0 License [1] (good coherence, but outputs can look synthetic).

        And Krea 2 has a community license [2] that is fairly permissive - I think commercial usage is allowed under $1 million.

        Boogu-Image scored 6&#x2F;15 and Krea 2 scored 7&#x2F;15 on my GenAI Showdown benchmark [3] - only Ideogram4 eclipses them in terms of local models, but its got a far more restrictive license and the JSON structured inputs can be a pain to work with.

        [1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Boogu-Project&#x2F;Boogu-Image" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Boogu-Project&#x2F;Boogu-Image

        [2] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.krea.ai&#x2F;krea-2-licensing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.krea.ai&#x2F;krea-2-licensing

        [3] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;genai-showdown.specr.net&#x2F;?models=fd,hd,kd,qi,f2d,zt,id4,k2,sxj,bg1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;genai-showdown.specr.net&#x2F;?models=fd,hd,kd,qi,f2d,zt,...

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