Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unveiled a new iteration of its artificial-intelligence technology that will make it easier for users to generate and modify images from texts and visuals, as the Chinese e-commerce giant continues its aggressive push into AI. The Hangzhou-based company introduced Qwen VLo, part of a series of AI services under the company’s Qwen brand. The new model is an upgrade from Qwen2.5-VL and is now able to generate text-to-image and image-to-image results. It also has a technology called progressive generation, meaning users can see the process as an image is created. “This newly upgraded model not only ‘understands’ the world but also generates high-quality recreations based on that understanding,” the company said in a blog post. “You can directly send a prompt like ‘Generate a picture of a cute cat’ to generate an image or upload an image of a cat and ask ‘Add a cap on the cat’s head’ to modify an image.”
Best known for its e-commerce operations in China, Alibaba has been charging into AI and building standalone offerings around Qwen. In February, Chief Executive Officer Eddie Wu went so far as to say the company’s “primary objective” is now artificial general intelligence, a goal in the industry to build AI systems with human-level intellectual capabilities.

Full report : Alibaba unveils text-to-image and image-to-image generation model Qwen VLo, with progressive generation tech, which shows the image creation process.