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🤖 Alibaba's Qwen2 Outsmarts GPT-4

Alibaba unveiled Qwen2-VL, a new vision-language AI model that outperforms GPT-4o on several benchmarks, especially in document comprehension and multilingual text-image understanding.

What can Qwen2-VL do?

• Processes images of various resolutions and ratios

• Analyzes videos over 20 minutes long

• Excels at college-level problem-solving and mathematical reasoning

• Supports multilingual text understanding in images

Which languages does it understand?

• Most European languages

• Japanese and Korean

• Arabic and Vietnamese

How does it compare to GPT-4?

• Outperforms GPT-4o in several benchmarks

• Particularly strong in document comprehension

• Excels in multilingual text-image understanding

  

Can I try it?

Yes, Qwen2-VL is available for testing on Hugging Face.

Why does this matter?

Qwen2-VL represents another significant player in the advanced AI model space, potentially enabling more sophisticated and globally accessible AI applications. Its emergence from China's Alibaba also signals growing competition in the international AI landscape.

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