Quick answer: Qwen2.5-VL 72B is Alibaba's flagship open-weight multimodal model, outperforming GPT-4o-mini and its Qwen2-VL predecessor as the top open-source vanilla LMM on the MedXpertQA expert-level medical benchmark.
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Best for: teams needing a strong open-weight multimodal model with full deployment control.
Qwen2.5-VL 72B is Alibaba's flagship open-weight multimodal model in the Qwen2.5-VL family, improving on Qwen2-VL with better visual understanding, document parsing, and agentic capabilities.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Organization | Alibaba |
| Modality | Multimodal (text + vision) |
| License | Open weights (Tongyi Qianwen license) |
| Release date | January 2025 |