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Qwen3-VL
Qwen3-VL is Alibaba Cloud's vision-language model series, designed to understand and reason over images, videos, and text in a single architecture. It is available in 2B and 8B parameter sizes, both released under Apache 2.0. The architecture handles diverse visual tasks including document understanding, chart analysis, image-based question answering, and video comprehension.
| General | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Qwen / Alibaba Cloud |
| Type | Open-weight vision-language LLM |
| License | Apache 2.0 |
| GitHub | QwenLM/Qwen3-VL |
| Hugging Face | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct |
| Technical Report | arxiv.org/abs/2511.21631 |
| Documentation | qwenlm.github.io |
Core Features
- Multimodal inputs: accepts text, images, and videos in a single conversation turn.
- Document and chart understanding: parses structured visual content like tables, slides, PDFs, and infographics.
- Video comprehension: understands multi-frame video sequences and answers temporal questions.
- Thinking mode: includes a reasoning variant (Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking) for step-by-step visual problem solving.
- Apache 2.0: weights are open for commercial use and fine-tuning.
Model Variants
| Variant | Parameters | Key capability |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct | 2B | Lightweight multimodal inference |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct | 8B | General vision-language tasks |
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking | 8B | Step-by-step visual reasoning |
Tools and Resources
- GitHub (QwenLM/Qwen3-VL): model code, usage examples, and fine-tuning scripts.
- Hugging Face (Qwen): download weights for all variants.
- Technical Report: arXiv paper with architecture and benchmark details.
- Qwen API Platform: access Qwen3-VL via the DashScope API.
- Ollama: run Qwen3-VL locally.
Ecosystem and Integrations
- Served through Alibaba Cloud DashScope via an OpenAI-compatible vision endpoint.
- Available on Ollama for local multimodal inference.
- Weights downloadable from Hugging Face Hub in standard and GGUF formats.
- Forms the encoder backbone for Qwen-Image-2.0, the image generation model.
Model weights are available on Hugging Face. API access is available through the Qwen API Platform and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.
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