Qwen 3.0 Image Pro

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ttheanonymousone about 3 hours ago 40 commentsRead Article on qwencloud.com

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NBJack•about 2 hours ago

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.

GrayShade•about 2 hours ago

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-3.0

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989701

artninja1988•about 2 hours ago

How is the pro version different from this?

amelius•about 1 hour ago

I prefer no samples over cherry picked samples, though.

JacobAsmuth•16 minutes ago

Really? You prefer not to see the top end of the distribution? Why?

giancarlostoro•about 2 hours ago

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•about 1 hour ago

The last chief communications officer of OpenAI used to work at Apple for 7 years according to her linkedin.

giancarlostoro•about 1 hour ago

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.

cubefox•24 minutes ago

If you register you can try it for free.

sinak•about 2 hours ago

Looks like this model is meaningfully less good than gpt-image-2. Arena.ai score is 1263 vs 1380.

https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image

minimaxir•about 2 hours ago

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.

svachalek•about 1 hour ago

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•about 1 hour ago

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:

https://imgpb.com/vCZidh

Invictus0•about 1 hour ago

Gpt 2 image is unlimited on a chatgpt pro plan

vunderba•about 1 hour ago

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:

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/?models=nbp,g2,mi

nrightnour•about 1 hour ago

The photo rankings on this page are so absurd that the only reasonable explanation is that they were judged by an AI.

minimaxir•about 1 hour ago

The rankings are for prompt adherence, not subjective quality.

DANmode•about 2 hours ago

Less than 10% is meaningful?

If these were processors, I wouldn’t spend another hundred on the faster one…

minimaxir•about 2 hours ago

The scores are pairwise ELO rankings, not simple metric scores.

minimaxir•about 2 hours ago

Also available on OpenRouter (whose image output support is getting better): https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen-image-3-pro

phildougherty•about 2 hours ago

is this going to get released on huggingface or is it cloud/hosted only?

pixelesque•about 2 hours ago

They promised weights for Qwen Image 2 around 6 months ago and there's still nothing, so wouldn't get your hopes up...

vunderba•about 2 hours ago

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.

uniclaude•about 2 hours ago

The page lists it as "No" for open source, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

cubefox•about 2 hours ago

The page does not mention open source.

john_strinlai•about 2 hours ago

>The page does not mention open source.

on the right-hand side, it says:

"Version Tag: MAJOR

Open Source: No

Updated: Jul 20, 2026"

saltysalt•about 2 hours ago

Will be interesting to see if they release the weights for local deployments. I love running Flux2 locally via ComfyUI.

Eueudhsbsj32•about 1 hour ago

I doubt any labs will be releasing weights for frontier image models.

Why would they want to deal with the amount of bad press they'll get for unsavory porn? Look at what happened to Grok.

minimaxir•about 1 hour ago

Minimax just released the weights for a video model (https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3) that apparently only has limited safeguards.

CamperBob2•23 minutes ago

If it has any safeguards at all, I don't think they've been found yet... and /r/unstablediffusion has been trying.

numpad0•about 1 hour ago

dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989701

themanmaran•about 2 hours ago

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.

CamperBob2•about 1 hour ago

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.

bayesianbot•about 1 hour ago

And now you got 90% of the people saying the model sucks as it timed out while serving them

causal•about 2 hours ago

Old news, no?

minimaxir•about 2 hours ago

The model was added to OpenRouter yesterday.