I wrote up a few notes about Alibaba Cloud’s impressive...

I wrote up a few notes about Alibaba Cloud’s impressive Apache 2 licensed Qwen2-VL vision LLM, which seems to handle tasks like handwriting OCR particularly well

I had to link to the Internet Archive copies of their blog posts because their GitHub organization (which hosted their blog via GitHub pages) mysteriously vanished without a trace some time in the last 24 hours!

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/4/qwen2-vl/

Like 4 September at 23:45 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

2 comments

Simon Willison

Good news: the disappearance is confirmed to be accidental, hopefully they’ll be back soon once GitHub unflag their account https://twitter.com/justinlin610/status/1831489518467477529

5 September at 0:52 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

Alex Hurst

@simon the text extraction is impressive, but there’s at least one error: “my sample” instead of “very small.”

5 September at 16:06 | Open on hachyderm.io