Alibaba Shrinks Qwen2.5-VL to 1.5GB so Developers Can Run Vision AI Locally

Qwen's compact vision-language model gets a 4-bit AWQ build, cutting memory to run multimodal reasoning, OCR, and agent tasks on modest GPUs.

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2026-10-26 22:03 · AlphaSignal
Alibaba Shrinks Qwen2.5-VL to 1.5GB so Developers Can Run Vision AI Locally

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