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🚀 Alibaba Launches Qwen2.5-VL: SOTA Vision model

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Yash Rahurikar
January 29, 2025

Few days back I posted about Moondream 2B and 0.5B vision model, you can read more:

Alibaba has unveiled Qwen2.5-VL, the latest evolution in their Qwen vision-language model series. Image recognition, video comprehension, visual reasoning, agent-based interactions, the model feels next level.

Key Features of Qwen2.5-VL

🎨 State-of-the-Art Image Understanding

  • Excels in analyzing charts, diagrams, and text in images, including handwritten and multilingual text. Can be a good alternative for OCR.

  • Achieves top performance on MathVista, DocVQA, RealWorldQA, and MTVQA benchmarks. (I will post more details about this in next posts)

🎥 Advanced Video Comprehension

  • Processes videos over an hour long with improved summarization and event localization. (in simpler terms citations for videos)

  • Supports video-based question answering, real-time conversation, and content creation.

🤖 Powerful Visual Agent Capabilities

  • Interacts with digital tools, making decisions and automating tasks using visual and textual inputs.

  • Can perform function calling to access real-time information like flight statuses or weather updates.

📍 Precise Object Recognition & Reasoning

  • Understands complex object relationships in images and real-world scenes.

  • Solves mathematical problems using visual analysis and interprets distorted images.

🗣️ Multilingual Text Recognition

  • Reads text in images across English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, and most European languages.

🏃🏻‍♂️‍➡️ Performance & Availability

  • 🏆 Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct achieves state-of-the-art results in document comprehension, video analysis, and mathematical reasoning.

  • 📊 Smaller Models, Big Impact – The 7B version outperforms GPT-4o-mini, while the 3B model surpasses the previous Qwen2-VL 7B, making it ideal for edge AI applications.

Limitations & Future Enhancements

🔸 Does not support audio extraction from videos.

🔸 Knowledge cutoff is June 2023, meaning it may lack recent updates.

🔸 Challenges remain in counting, character recognition, and 3D spatial awareness.

Checkout their release note here:

Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL!

QWEN CHAT GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD We release Qwen2.5-VL, the new flagship vision-language model of Qwen and also a significant leap from the previous Qwen2-VL. To try the latest model, feel free to visit Qwen Chat and choose Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct. Also, we open both base and instruct models in 3 sizes, including 3B, 7B, and 72B, in both Hugging Face and ModelScope. The key features include: Understand things visually: Qwen2.

qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-vl