• Brijesh Desai
• News
• September 21, 2026

Alibaba Claims New Qwen-Image-2.1 Model Beats Google’s Nano Banana 2.0

Alibaba claims new image model beats Google’s Nano Banana 2.0: Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model, scores higher on Alibaba’s own benchmark but remains unverified by independent tests. Alibaba claims new image model beats Google’s Nano