# Alibaba — Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter

- Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com)
- Announced: 2025-03-23T16:00:04+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Subject: Qwen
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct
- License: Apache 2.0
- Source: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-vl-32b/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2293-qwen2-5-vl-32b-smarter-and-lighter

Alibaba's Qwen team announced the open-source release of Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct, a 32B parameter vision-language model under Apache 2.0, refined from the Qwen2.5-VL series using reinforcement learning.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-vl-32b/:

> we continued to optimize the model using reinforcement learning and open-sourced the new VL model with the beloved 32B parameter scale under the Apache 2.0 license — Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct.

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