Adobe Photoshop is among the most recognizable pieces of software ever created, used by more than 90% of the world’s creative professionals, according to Photutorial. So the fact that a new open source AI model — Qwen-Image Edit, released yesterday by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Qwen Team of AI researchers — is now able to accomplish a huge number of Photoshop-like editing jobs with text inputs alone, is a notable achievement. Built on the 20-billion-parameter Qwen-Image foundation model released earlier this month, Qwen-Image-Edit extends the system’s unique strengths in text rendering to cover a wide spectrum of editing tasks, from subtle appearance changes to broader semantic transformations. Simply upload a starting image — I tried one of myself from VentureBeat’s last annual Transform conference in San Francisco — and then type instructions of what you want to change, and Qwen-Image-Edit will return a new image with those edits applied. The model is available now across several platforms, including Qwen Chat, Hugging Face, ModelScope, GitHub, and through the Alibaba Cloud application programming interface (API), the latter which allows any third-party developer or enterprise to integrate this new model into their own applications and workflows.

Full report : Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing version of Qwen-Image, supporting modifying Chinese and English text while preserving font, size, and style.