Alibaba unveils latest AI service for images in push for users

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 ecommerce 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.