Alibaba Cloud Tongyi has open-sourced a new visual model Qwen2.5-VL, launching three sizes: 3B, 7B, and 72B. The flagship model Qwen2.5-VL-72B won the championship in visual understanding across 13 authoritative evaluations, surpassing GPT-4o and Claude 3.5. According to Alibaba Cloud's official introduction, the new Qwen2.5-VL can analyze image content more accurately and support breakthrough video understanding of over 1 hour. This model can search for specific events in videos, and provide insights on...

On December 18th, at the Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference, Volcano Engine President Tan Dai unveiled the new Doubao Visual Understanding Model. This model processes both text and image-related information simultaneously, providing more accurate answers. The new model excels in content recognition, understanding, and reasoning capabilities, featuring more nuanced visual description abilities, which brings stronger intelligent processing capabilities to enterprise users. Tan Dai revealed at the conference that the Doubao Visual Understanding Model has achieved significant technological breakthroughs and has also seen a dramatic reduction in pricing.

Salesforce has released an open source multimodal AI model named xGen-MM, designed to simultaneously understand and generate various data types such as text and images, significantly changing the way AI research and applications are conducted. The model performs exceptionally well in multiple benchmark tests, demonstrating strong performance compared to similar open source models, and includes pretrained models, datasets, and fine-tuning code. The largest model boasts 4 billion parameters and can handle 'interleaved data,' enabling multitasking, such as answering questions about multiple images at once. The diverse options available in the model reflect the potential of AI.