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Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It

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221 points lnyan | 1 comments | 27 Jun 25 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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rushingcreek ◴[27 Jun 25 14:51 UTC] No.44397235[source]▶
It doesn't seem to have open weights, which is unfortunate. One of Qwen's strengths historically has been their open-weights strategy, and it would have been great to have a true open-weights competitor to 4o's autoregressive image gen. There are so many interesting research directions that are only possible if we can get access to the weights.

If Qwen is concerned about recouping its development costs, I suggest looking at BFL's Flux Kontext Dev release from the other day as a model: let researchers and individuals get the weights for free and let startups pay for a reasonably-priced license for commercial use.

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1. dheera ◴[27 Jun 25 17:24 UTC] No.44398602[source]▶
> One of Qwen's strengths historically has been their open-weights strategy

> let researchers and individuals get the weights for free and let startups pay for a reasonably-priced license for commercial use

I'm personally doubtful companies can recoup tens of millions of dollars in investment, GPU hours, and engineering salaries from image generation fees.