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Qwen releases Qwen2.5-VL vision-language model family

Qwen released Qwen2.5-VL, the successor to Qwen2-VL, as a new vision-language model family. Both base and instruct models are open-sourced in three sizes: 3B, 7B, and 72B parameters. The 72B-Instruct variant is available on Qwen Chat. The release is described as a significant leap from the previous generation. Available on Hugging Face and ModelScope.

PUBLISHED2025-01-26
OBSERVED2026-08-11
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  • New flagship vision-language model, succeeding Qwen2-VL
  • Open-source base and instruct models in 3B, 7B, and 72B sizes
  • 72B-Instruct available on Qwen Chat
  • Available on Hugging Face and ModelScope (per platform badges in source)
  • Source text is truncated; key feature details beyond vision understanding are not present
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