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Qwen-VL

Parameters
9.6B
Published
Aug 24, 2023

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.

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Organization
Alibaba
Country of organization
China
Domain
Multimodal, Language, Vision
Task
Image captioning, Chat, Question answering, Visual question answering
Parameters
9,600,000,000
Dataset size
500B
Numerical format
BF16
Model accessibility
Open weights (restricted use)
Open weights
Yes
Base model
Qwen-7B
Citations
1,998
Epoch confidence
Likely
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