# Qwen open-sources Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct under Apache 2.0

> Qwen released Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct, a 32B parameter vision-language model optimised with reinforcement learning and open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, building on the Qwen2.5-VL series.

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| **Tool** | Qwen |
| **Version** | — |
| **Kind** | announcement |
| **Published** | 2025-03-23 |
| **Observed** | 2026-08-11 |
| **Significance** | 3/5 |
| **Breaking** | no |
| **Categories** | new-model, model-support |

## What changed


- 32B parameter vision-language model optimised with reinforcement learning
- Released under Apache 2.0 license
- Follows the Qwen2.5-VL series released in January 2025


## Sources

- [blog_rss](https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-vl-32b/) — retrieved 2026-08-11


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