Qwen-VL
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Alibaba's Qwen-VL is a large-scale vision-language model family with strong performance across captioning, VQA, and visual localization.
Broad capability: Handles image captioning, visual QA, visual localization (grounding), and flexible multi-turn visual interaction.
Multilingual VL: Strong in both Chinese and English for visual tasks, filling a multilingual gap in VLMs predominantly English at the time.
Visual grounding: Supports bounding-box output for visual grounding, a capability not universally present in early VLMs.
Open release: Released as open weights, providing a strong open VLM baseline and kicking off the Qwen-VL family that has continued through 2024.
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