Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a scaled-down 3B-parameter variant of its flagship 7B-parameter multimodal model, designed to run on consumer PCs and laptops (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a scaled-down 3B-parameter variant of its flagship 7B-parameter multimodal model, designed to run on consumer PCs and laptops  —  Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba isn't taking the pressure off other AI model providers in the U.S. and abroad.