Medium Multimodal AI · 1 min read
Qwen-VL-Chat: the best open VLM in Chinese with bounding boxes
In one sentence Alibaba releases Qwen-VL-Chat, a 7B VLM with native bounding box output, bilingual Chinese-English OCR, and advanced document layout understanding.
Reading level
Western vision-language models were great in English but fragile with Chinese. Alibaba bridged this gap with Qwen-VL-Chat: a 7 billion parameter model that not only understands images and text in both languages, but can localize objects in the image by providing exact coordinates. This means you can ask it "where is the document title?" and it returns a precise rectangle. Extremely useful for reading invoices, forms, and scanned documents.
Companies
Alibaba
Tools
Qwen-VL, Qwen-VL-Chat
Tags
VLMOCRDocument UnderstandingChineseBounding Box
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