Qwen (通义千问 / Tongyi Qianwen) is a family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud, offering over 100 open-weight models across a range of sizes and architectures, with multimodal capabilities spanning text, image, video, and audio. It is one of the most widely adopted open-source LLM families globally, with over 40 million downloads and more than 200,000 derivative models on Hugging Face, making it a cornerstone of China's open-source AI ecosystem.
“The base VLM used for the language feedback policy (LFP), fine-tuned via LoRA. Demonstrates that a relatively small (4B parameter) open-weights VLM is sufficient to serve as the steering layer, keeping deployment costs manageable.”
Source→“If you ask most startups, most academia in the U.S. that are using open source, they're usually using Chinese open source models, right? You've probably heard of DeepSeek, of Qwen, of Kimi.”
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