Qwen-VL is an AI model developed by Alibaba (China), first published in August 2023. It works in the multimodal, language and vision domain, on tasks such as image captioning, chat, question answering and visual question answering.
Epoch AI has no training-compute estimate for this model. The model has 9,600,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 500B datapoints.
Access: Open weights (restricted use). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of Qwen-7B. The reference paper has 1,998 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as likely.