Qwen2.5-VL: Alibaba's New Flagship Vision-Language Model Released in 3B/7B/72B Sizes
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen2.5-VL, their new flagship vision-language model, representing a significant upgrade over Qwen2-VL. The release includes both base and instruct variants in three sizes (3B, 7B, 72B), all open-weighted and available on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The 72B instruct model is also accessible via Qwen Chat. Key capabilities highlighted include enhanced visual understanding, with the model positioned as a major step forward in multimodal performance.
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Qwen2-VL: Alibaba Releases Latest Vision-Language Model with Extended Video Understanding
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen2-VL, the latest iteration of their vision-language model series built on the Qwen2 foundation. The model claims state-of-the-art performance on visual understanding benchmarks including MathVista, DocVQA, RealWorldQA, and MTVQA. A notable capability is understanding videos exceeding 20 minutes in length for question answering, dialog, and content creation tasks.
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Alibaba releases Qwen3.5 open-weights vision-language model family with MoE architecture across eight sizes
Alibaba released the Qwen3.5 family of eight open-weights vision-language models ranging from 0.8B to 397B parameters, built on a mixture-of-experts architecture with mixed attention and Gated DeltaNet layers. The flagship Qwen3.5-397B-A17B outperforms GPT-5.2, Claude 4.5 Opus, and Gemini-3 Pro on 28 of 44 vision benchmarks, while the 9B model surpasses OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B on most language tasks. Open weights are available under Apache 2.0, with hosted agentic variants (Qwen3.5-Plus, Qwen3.5-Flash) available via Alibaba Cloud. The release is notable for strong small-model efficiency and comes amid reported team departures following the Qwen3 rollout.
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Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen2, an evolution from Qwen1.5, comprising five pretrained and instruction-tuned models ranging from 0.5B to 72B parameters, including a 57B mixture-of-experts variant (57B-A14B). The release highlights training on 27 additional languages beyond English and Chinese, significantly improved coding and mathematics performance, and extended context support up to 128K tokens for the 7B and 72B instruct variants. Benchmark results are claimed to be state-of-the-art across a large number of evaluations.
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Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.5-0.8B, a small-scale image-text-to-text model, on Hugging Face. The model supports conversational use and is compatible with Azure deployment endpoints. With over 2.7 million downloads and 562 likes, it has seen substantial community uptake for a sub-1B parameter multimodal model.