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Re:Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite phot... by KeplerBoy on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @06:05AM (#46958092)
How is it a problem? There simply doesn't seem to be a moat or secret sauce. Who cares which of these models is SOTA? In two months there will be a new model.
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Re:Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite phot... by waldarbeiter on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @06:16AM (#46958178)
There seems to be a moat like infrastructure/gpus and talent. The best models right now come from companies with considerable resources/funding.
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Re:Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite phot... by esperent on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @07:35AM (#46958900)
Right, but that's a short term moat. If they pause on their incredible levels of spending for even 6 months, someone else will take over having spent only a tiny fraction of what they did. They might get taken over anyway.
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Re:Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite phot... by raincole on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @08:40AM (#46959597)
> someone else will take over having spent only a tiny fraction of what they did

How. By magic? You fell for 'Deepseek V3 is as good as SOTA'?

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Re:Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite phot... by Gud on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @09:26AM (#46960106)
By reverse engineering, sheer stupidity from the competition, corporate espionage, ‘stealing’ engineers and sometimes a stroke of genius, the same as it’s always been
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