Qwen-VL

Alibaba · 2023 · Multimodal LLM · China

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A · App: No
B · Built By: Alibaba
C · CEO & Politics: Eddie Wu — Not publicly documented (PRC-based; operates under Chinese regulatory environment)
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text+Image+Audio
J · Jurisdiction: China
K · Key Staffers: Jingren Zhou (CTO, Tongyi Lab)
L · Languages: Chinese-primary
M · Model Type: Multimodal LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights, Tongyi Qianwen license)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Alibaba Cloud's Qwen-VL, the vision-language version of Qwen, built from Qwen-7B and an OpenCLIP ViT-bigG encoder; it takes images, text and bounding boxes as input and outputs text and boxes, handles multilingual and multi-image conversation, reads Chinese and English text in images and uses 448x448 input for fine-grained recognition. Released openly with Qwen-VL-Chat in August 2023, it beat open models of similar scale on captioning, VQA, DocVQA and grounding.
S · Stock / Status: $110 (BABA, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @AlibabaGroup
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Multimodal LLM from Alibaba, released 2023.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Qwen-VL.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/qwen-vl.html