real-time speech
2 published articles
Qwen / Alibaba4 min read
Qwen / Alibaba Cloud
Qwen2.5-Omni outperforms Gemini-1.5-Pro on OmniBench, fits under 12GB
Alibaba's open-source Qwen2.5-Omni outscored Gemini-1.5-Pro on OmniBench and topped the MMAU audio reasoning leaderboard. Quantized builds cut VRAM below 12GB and MNN support brings real-time voice chat to phones.
2026-08-07
AI5 min read
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