Qwen-Image-2.1 Is the Best Local Image Model in 2026. The Download Is 33 GB.
Author(s): Ankit Agrawal Originally published on Towards AI. Qwen-Image-2.1 tops both blind image arenas among downloadable models. Here is the VRAM, the speed on a 4090, and the licence. Qwen-Image-2.1 is 7 billion parameters. The download is 33 gigabytes. It runs in …
Your AI Agent Isn’t Slow. It Just Feels Slow.
Author(s): Ankit Agrawal Originally published on Towards AI. Latency masking for agent UIs: what six decades of perception research — and a few years of shipping chatbots — taught me about designing the wait. So here’s a scene I’ve watched play out …