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Multimodal AI
Alibaba just shipped a model that hears, sees, and speaks, and it runs on a phone
Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Omni processes text, images, audio, and video end-to-end, generating text and natural speech in real time. Benchmarks show it matches specialized models in vision and audio, and a 4-bit quantized version runs on an RTX 3080 or a Snapdragon phone.
2026-07-20