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Turns out we weren't done for major LLM releases in 2024 after all... Alibaba's Qwen just released QvQ, a "visual reasoning model" - the same chain-of-thought trick as OpenAI's o1 applied to running a prompt against an image Trying it out is a lot of fun: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/...

Here's what it said when I asked it to count those pelicans

Here are all of experiments with full transcripts gist.github.com/simonw/6c296...

Ran it on my M2 64GB! uv run --with 'numpy<2.0' --with mlx-vlm python \ -m mlx_vlm.generate \ --model mlx-community/QVQ-72B-Preview-4bit \ --max-tokens 10000 \ --temp 0.0 \ --prompt "describe this" \ --image pelicans-on-bicycles-veo2.jpg simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/...

... and since the year still isn't over, DeepSeek published a new 685B 700+GB model on Hugging Face, no documentation yet, official announcement looks like it will come tomorrow huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/...

definitely a chinese model