Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni: the world's first end-to-end omnimodal AI, with real-time audio and video interaction capabilities that surpass Gemini!

A new breakthrough in AI technology! Alibaba Cloud released the world's first end-to-end full-modal AI, with performance leading international competitors.
Core content:
1. Five major technological revolutions of Qwen2.5-Omni, the world's first end-to-end full-modal large model
2. Qwen2.5-Omni performance explosion, leading Gemini-1.5-pro in many tests
3. Three-minute quick experience tutorial, enterprise-level application scenarios and developer gift packs
Introduction:
AI technology has achieved another breakthrough! Today, the Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen team launched Qwen2.5-Omni , the world's first truly end-to-end full-modal large model. This "hexagonal warrior" can not only process text, image, audio, and video inputs simultaneously, but also generate voice responses in real time, crushing international competitors such as Gemini-1.5-pro in multiple benchmark tests! This article will provide you with an in-depth analysis of the five revolutionary breakthroughs of this "China-made" AI black technology, and will also include a nanny-level experience tutorial.
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1. Five major technological revolutions
• Fully modal unified architecture : the first Thinker-Talker architecture, covering text/image/audio/video • Real-time audio and video interaction : Supports block streaming, with latency as low as milliseconds (the response speed in the demonstration video exceeds Gemini by 30%) • Cross-modal time alignment : Innovative TMRoPE technology to accurately synchronize video and audio timing • Industrial-grade speech synthesis : Provides two professional-grade voices: Chelsie (female voice) and Ethan (male voice) • Multimodal understanding peak : surpassing Qwen2.5-VL-7B and Qwen2-Audio in OmniBench test
2. Explosive performance
3. Three-minute fast experience
1. One-click installation :
# Use Alibaba Cloud's official Docker image (recommended for domestic users)
docker run --gpus all -it qwenllm/qwen-omni:2.5-cu121 bash
2. Real-time voice conversation :
from transformers import Qwen2_5OmniModel
model = Qwen2_5OmniModel.from_pretrained(
"Qwen/Qwen2.5-Omni-7B" ,
device_map = "auto" ,
attn_implementation = "flash_attention_2" # Enable acceleration
)
response, audio = model.generate(inputs, spk= "Ethan" ) # Select male voice
4. Enterprise-level application scenarios
• Intelligent customer service : Support real-time subtitles + voice response for video calls (error rate in the demonstration was less than 2%) • Online education : Automatic generation of math problem video explanations (GSM8K accuracy rate 82.4%) • Medical assistance : CT imaging + voice consultation multimodal analysis • Industrial quality inspection : real-time defect detection via video stream + voice alarm
5. Developer Gift Pack
• Pre-built application templates : • Music Analysis: python examples/audio_language.py
• Video Summary: python examples/vision_language.py --modality video
• Performance Tuning Guide : # Video processing optimization (balance between video memory and precision)
processor = Qwen2_5OmniProcessor.from_pretrained(
"Qwen/Qwen2.5-Omni-7B" ,
max_pixels = 1280 * 720 # Limit the maximum resolution
)
Special Announcement:
? Alibaba Cloud API is free for a limited time : From now until April 30, you can experience the full functionality by using the following code:
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key= "FREE_TRIAL" , base_url= "https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com" )
Technical Deep Dive:
How to implement the "TMRoPE timing alignment algorithm"?
1. Map video frames and audio spectra to a unified spatiotemporal coordinate system 2. Building cross-modal associations via learnable positional encodings 3. Dynamically adjust the attention mechanism to achieve millisecond-level synchronization
Summarize:
The release of Qwen2.5-Omni marks that China has achieved a historic leap from "following" to "leading" in the field of multimodal AI! Whether in terms of technical depth or breadth of application, it has demonstrated absolute strength that surpasses international peers.