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Alibaba's Qwen team announces Qwen Image 2.1 — an updated open-weight image generation model with improved text rendering and multi-image editing.
Why I recommend it: Free open-weight release; the hosted Qwen chat and API have their own free tier and paid limits. Useful if you want a Chinese-lab alternative to Stable Diffusion or Flux.
Xiaomi's open-weight AI model family — text, image, video, and audio understanding — released under the MIT license, free to download and self-host.
Why I recommend it: Weights are free (MIT license, commercial use allowed) on Hugging Face. The hosted API is paid per token. If you can run models locally, this is a free frontier-tier option; if you want a chat interface, use the API and expect a bill.
DeepSeek's chat assistant. Free tier gives unlimited messages and file uploads on a daily-reset quota; no payment required. One of the most significant free AI releases of the past two years.
Why I recommend it: Worth trying on reasoning-heavy work and long documents. Note it is a Chinese service — read its data terms before pasting anything confidential.
