is this going to get released on huggingface or is it cloud/hosted only?
uniclaude•Aug 5, 2026
The page lists it as "No" for open source, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
cubefox•Aug 5, 2026
The page does not mention open source.
john_strinlai•Aug 5, 2026
>The page does not mention open source.
on the right-hand side, it says:
"Version Tag: MAJOR
Open Source: No
Updated: Jul 20, 2026"
cubefox•Aug 5, 2026
It doesn't for me.
DANmode•Aug 5, 2026
Are you on mobile? Doesn’t seem to show on mobile.
cubefox•Aug 5, 2026
Yes, even if I enable "desktop mode".
tingletech•Aug 5, 2026
you have to have either a tall viewport or scroll to the bottom of the page
vunderba•Aug 5, 2026
Given that Qwen Image 2 didn’t even get an open-weight release, I really doubt we’re going to see any kind of open release for it. They seem to have completely shifted over to proprietary models sadly.
pixelesque•Aug 5, 2026
They promised weights for Qwen Image 2 around 6 months ago and there's still nothing, so wouldn't get your hopes up...
NBJack•Aug 5, 2026
If I had a nickel for every model card, repo, or spec posted here that had zero samples of the actual output, I could probably start financing a rack of MI455Xs.
OpenAI does surprisingly well in this regard with their blog posts, and I'm more of an Anthropic fanboy. I wish most tech releases for AI were as well done as OpenAIs they actually showcase what they've built, honestly, if I had to compare it to another company, I wouldn't be surprised if former Apple employees are doing OpenAI's press briefings. Whoever does press briefings at Apple, they are worth their weight in gold.
sigmoid10•Aug 5, 2026
The last chief communications officer of OpenAI used to work at Apple for 7 years according to her linkedin.
giancarlostoro•Aug 5, 2026
As I was writing this it dawned on me, and I had a feeling someone would confirm. :)
I am not a Sam Altman fan, but I do give him credit where its due, their press briefings are chef's kiss.
amelius•Aug 5, 2026
I prefer no samples over cherry picked samples, though.
JacobAsmuth•Aug 5, 2026
Really? You prefer not to see the top end of the distribution? Why?
amelius•Aug 5, 2026
Because I don't like baby sitting an AI. Just tell me what it is capable of; not what it is capable of when I invest a lot of work into it myself. The whole point of an AI is that it does the work for me.
cubefox•Aug 5, 2026
If you register you can try it for free.
causal•Aug 5, 2026
Old news, no?
minimaxir•Aug 5, 2026
The model was added to OpenRouter yesterday.
themanmaran•Aug 5, 2026
Pretty annoying user experience trying to test out the model on the official Qwen site. You get an immediate popup with "Security Notice: For security purposes, please add a payment method" that blocks you from clicking anywhere.
Honestly if you're launching a new model, you should probably just make it free for the 24 hours after launch so people can test it out. Otherwise just wait till it's on openrouter.
bayesianbot•Aug 5, 2026
And now you got 90% of the people saying the model sucks as it timed out while serving them
CamperBob2•Aug 5, 2026
Not a great time to announce a pile of closed-weight excuses and locked gates when MiniMax-H3 just dropped.
Qwen lost some key people after 3.6 and it looks like we're seeing the consequences of that, or perhaps the cause.
Everything is less good than gpt-2-image and I suspect that will be the case for awhile, until potentially Nano Banana Pro 2.
However, cost is significantly lower in this case. A Pro image here is $0.04, a gpt-2-image high is $0.21 and lower resolution.
Invictus0•Aug 5, 2026
Gpt 2 image is unlimited on a chatgpt pro plan
svachalek•Aug 5, 2026
gpt-2-image has such a yellow tinge though. It stands out badly on nearly any screen. The image quality is great otherwise, but I generally prefer nano banana for its color balance.
vunderba•Aug 5, 2026
True but it’s at least addressable with some basic tone-mapping changes. It’s easier to correct an issue like this than to deal with an image that simply doesn’t follow your prompt.
Here's a quick trend of the "piss filter" in the gpt image series:
Not a great test case, considering how much of the artwork in-distribution for that type of image will have age-yellowed lacquer.
vunderba•Aug 5, 2026
Oh yeah, that’s a good point I’ll generate some images of a theoretical earth with a solar system bathed in the light of a K-type orange dwarf star instead. :)
I have some other examples of it as well that aren't going to be potentially contaminated by that late 18th century / early 19th century tintype-esque training data.
If these were processors, I wouldn’t spend another hundred on the faster one…
minimaxir•Aug 5, 2026
The scores are pairwise ELO rankings, not simple metric scores.
vunderba•Aug 5, 2026
As I’ve said before, I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in Arena’s scoring system. They have MAI Image 2.5 ranked above Gemini Nano Banana Pro, and maybe that’s true on paper but good luck using it. Microsoft’s censorship makes Google feel like the wild west by comparison.
They also have Meta’s Muse Image ranked above NB Pro, which is just patently absurd. In my own GenAI benchmark it only managed a lackluster 7 passes out of 15. Even the open‑weight Ideogram 4 scored higher than that.
For reference, here’s GPT‑Image‑2, NB Pro, and Muse compared:
If it has any safeguards at all, I don't think they've been found yet... and /r/unstablediffusion has been trying.
Eueudhsbsj32•Aug 5, 2026
I forgot about that.. I'm surprised China allowed them to release that. Surely it will only increase the likelihood and severity of western restrictions on Chinese open models.
Unless they see it as a way to stoke anti-AI sentiment in the west and further polarize us..
dannyw•Aug 5, 2026
There's plenty of sites/APIs providing (actually) uncensored Seedance / Seedream models from ByteDance, which I find surprising too.
When I tried to sign up for Qwen last month (after getting an ad on youtube), after entering my credit card for a "free" trial, Alibaba wanted me to upload a picture of my driver's license to be able to use it! I almost sold by BABA.
storywatch•Aug 5, 2026
What's the difference between Qwen Cloud and Alibaba Cloud? Same company?
npn•Aug 5, 2026
Similar to aistudio vs vertex.
Or rather, Alibaba cloud is equivalent to google cloud or aws.
jjcm•Aug 5, 2026
I was playing with this a bunch when it dropped a week ago. It's a big step up over their prior model, but it's nowhere near gpt-image-2 at least for high density UI design. Photos are a solved domain in my eyes, so the real question is if it can do infographics/web design.
I'd recommend adding something like this to the copied prompt:
"Focus heavily on the angular cuts. Use image-to-svg to generate the hero graphics and also generate images of the hero graphics - let me choose between the two of them."
That should help steer the agent a bit and will give you some optionality for the hero graphics.
asveikau•Aug 5, 2026
Seems like the title order is incorrect at the time of this comment. It says Qwen 3.0 Image, but it's Qwen Image 3.0.
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on the right-hand side, it says:
"Version Tag: MAJOR
Open Source: No
Updated: Jul 20, 2026"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989701
I am not a Sam Altman fan, but I do give him credit where its due, their press briefings are chef's kiss.
Honestly if you're launching a new model, you should probably just make it free for the 24 hours after launch so people can test it out. Otherwise just wait till it's on openrouter.
Qwen lost some key people after 3.6 and it looks like we're seeing the consequences of that, or perhaps the cause.
https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image
However, cost is significantly lower in this case. A Pro image here is $0.04, a gpt-2-image high is $0.21 and lower resolution.
Here's a quick trend of the "piss filter" in the gpt image series:
https://imgpb.com/vCZidh
I have some other examples of it as well that aren't going to be potentially contaminated by that late 18th century / early 19th century tintype-esque training data.
https://imgpb.com/vTUHo
If these were processors, I wouldn’t spend another hundred on the faster one…
They also have Meta’s Muse Image ranked above NB Pro, which is just patently absurd. In my own GenAI benchmark it only managed a lackluster 7 passes out of 15. Even the open‑weight Ideogram 4 scored higher than that.
For reference, here’s GPT‑Image‑2, NB Pro, and Muse compared:
https://genai-showdown.specr.net/?models=nbp,g2,mi
Why would they want to deal with the amount of bad press they'll get for unsavory porn? Look at what happened to Grok.
Unless they see it as a way to stoke anti-AI sentiment in the west and further polarize us..
Yes, they're real Seedance, no refusals.
Or rather, Alibaba cloud is equivalent to google cloud or aws.
Here are some samples, each with the same prompt:
Cannabis site
gpt-image-2: https://image.non.io/9fbf3396-889a-445e-b51b-ab4468ded269.we...
qwen-3: https://image.non.io/b5061e30-fafa-496f-9dad-2071e9473998.we...
Bookstore site
gpt-image-2: https://image.non.io/7157afee-914e-4433-9d5e-e3d0c8d8b3a3.we...
qwen-3: https://image.non.io/9556857b-e6f3-4754-8958-74b2265d946f.we...
While it does text fairly well, the overall layout/aesthetics are simply behind.
Also, mind if I take it for my open-source bookstore SaaS?
I expaneded out the designs here - feel free to copy them for your agent to build: https://diffui.ai/app/canvas/95934269-5dc8-4145-a33a-d3a4dc2...
I'd recommend adding something like this to the copied prompt:
"Focus heavily on the angular cuts. Use image-to-svg to generate the hero graphics and also generate images of the hero graphics - let me choose between the two of them."
That should help steer the agent a bit and will give you some optionality for the hero graphics.