Alibaba has introduced its latest Qwen series AI models, designed to handle text, images, audio, and video with high efficiency. These models are capable of running directly on mobile phones and laptops, showcasing their advanced capabilities. The company has made these models publicly available on platforms like Hugging Face and GitHub, aiming to utilize them in creating AI agents. One such application is assisting visually impaired individuals by providing real-time audio descriptions of their surroundings.
Since committing to this technology, Alibaba has rapidly released a series of AI products. The company is not alone in the development of multimodal AI models. Competitors like OpenAI and Google are also offering generative AI tools capable of processing various input types, including text and audio. Recently, OpenAI enhanced ChatGPT by adding advanced image generation features.
Alibaba's new Qwen2.5-Omni-7B system is noted for its exceptional performance in speech understanding and generation, highlighting its potential in diverse applications.
