I am really grateful to the Chinese Labs for open sourcing their best models. If it was left to the Americans, we would be forced to pay obscene API fees to use them.

Interesting in the example of assembling the Cheers team how the otherwise great result genericizes Shelley Long.

Qwen and Alibaba are the biggest competitor for basically every model out there. They're beating the benchmarks like top-frontier models, focused on open-source and much cheaper than the competitors.

Excited to see what the future holds for them!

I don't want only cherry picked examples. Show me failure modes too.

Very impressive, and kind of worrying a 7B model can have such capabilities. The implications are huge. And Qwen does no watermarking (yet) yeah?

Boy do I love waking up to find a new awesome toy from the Qwen team waiting for me to play with! Pulling it now

While the license of this model is a shame it is still unenforceable.

I know a few friends of mine who are running models and are ignoring the licence.

Whether it is AGPL 3.0, or a completely restrictive license, it is going to get broken anyway and be used for commercial purposes.

I don't know anyone who looks at the licenses of the OSS software they are using.

In today’s world OSS is synonymous with "Free" and the AI model providers are proof of that with their training of code, datasets, etc.

So it begs the question, why should we abide by their licenses of their models?

Not sure there's a better avatar for the absurdity of AI slop imagery than the "cowboy on horseback". That's a pony with a child's saddle on it, and they've composited a grown man on top of it.

I would call this a license trap: Qwen RESEARCH LICENSE AGREEMENT

Code on github, models on huggingface, nice intro text: "We are excited to open-source Qwen-Image-2.1 [...]".

meh...