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We subconsciously avoid them because the traditional barrier to “deep research” is simply too high.\\nWe’ve been thinking about how to make “deep research” no longer a heavy task that needs to be “booted up”, but rather a natural extension of thought.\\nThis is the mission Qwen DeepResearch was born to fulfill.\\nWhat we want to do is completely change the dynamics of thinking, minimizing the friction between “thinking” and “validation”. Now, you can confidently toss it those “random whimsical ideas” or those “extremely complex, where-do-I-even-begin” deep questions.\\nIt is no longer just a simple information retrieval tool, but your dedicated research assistant, ready to instantly “catch” your ideas and handle all the heavy lifting from inspiration to insight. When the cost of exploration approaches zero, every spark of curiosity is worthy of immediate pursuit.\\nThis time, we’re bringing not just an increase in features, but a qualitative leap in research depth and efficiency.\\nDual-Mode Switch: Normal Mode for high-efficiency, general-purpose use, quickly meeting daily research needs; Advanced Mode invests more time and computing power to perform deeper multi-step reasoning and comprehensive analysis.\\nLocal File Integration: Supports uploading various file formats, including PDF, Excel, and images. The system can automatically read, extract, and understand the content, integrating it into the search and reasoning process for more precise information analysis.\\nEnhanced Search and Reading: Reconstructed web search and comprehension strategies allow the system to read and refine more high-quality information sources in a given time, significantly reducing hallucinations and redundancy, and improving the reliability of research results.\\nPrecise and Controllable Reports: Report writing capabilities have been optimized. 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Qwen DeepResearch: When Inspiration Becomes Its Own Reason
It usually doesn’t die from “not being good enough”, but from being “too much trouble”.
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When a thought flashes, it’s still fragile and unverified. After a brief moment of excitement, our\n brains immediately begin to assess the “cost”:
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“How many hours will I need to spend researching to verify this?”
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“The quality of information online is patchy. Where should I even start, and who should I\n trust?”
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“This problem is too complex. Is it really worth stopping my current work to do a full\n ‘research’ project on it?”
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In that very moment of “cost assessment”, the vast majority of inspiring ideas are “rationally”\n killed off. We subconsciously avoid them because the traditional barrier to “deep research” is\n simply too high.
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We’ve been thinking about how to make “deep research” no longer a heavy task that needs to be\n “booted up”, but rather a natural extension of thought.
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This is the mission Qwen DeepResearch was born to fulfill.
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What we want to do is completely change the dynamics of thinking, minimizing the friction between\n “thinking” and “validation”. Now, you can confidently toss it those “random whimsical ideas” or\n those “extremely complex, where-do-I-even-begin” deep questions.
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It is no longer just a simple information retrieval tool, but your dedicated research assistant,\n ready to instantly “catch” your ideas and handle all the heavy lifting from inspiration to insight.\n When the cost of exploration approaches zero, every spark of curiosity is worthy of\n immediate pursuit.
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This time, we’re bringing not just an increase in features, but a qualitative leap in research depth\n and efficiency.
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Dual-Mode Switch:Normal Mode for high-efficiency,\n general-purpose use, quickly meeting daily research needs; Advanced Mode\n invests more time and computing power to perform deeper multi-step reasoning and\n comprehensive analysis.
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Local File Integration: Supports uploading various file formats, including\n PDF, Excel, and images. The system can automatically read, extract, and understand the\n content, integrating it into the search and reasoning process for more precise information\n analysis.
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Enhanced Search and Reading: Reconstructed web search and comprehension\n strategies allow the system to read and refine more high-quality information sources in a\n given time, significantly reducing hallucinations and redundancy, and improving the\n reliability of research results.
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Precise and Controllable Reports: Report writing capabilities have been\n optimized. It understands and integrates user intent, allowing for flexible control over\n word count, paragraphs, and level of detail, moving beyond formulaic templates.
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All-New Interactive Experience: A clearer information hierarchy, more\n intuitive citation marking, and an overall smoother, more natural interaction create an\n immersive research experience.
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Diverse Outputs: In addition to traditional research reports, the system can\n generate web pages and podcasts with a single click, presenting research findings in richer\n formats.
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We systematically evaluated the new Qwen DeepResearch 2511 across multiple dimensions, including\n anti-hallucination rate, report comprehensiveness, reliability, instruction following, report\n length, search depth, and research time. The results show a comprehensive and significant\n improvement in overall performance compared to version 2507.
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Behind every improvement in experience, there is a new technological breakthrough. Qwen DeepResearch\n 2511 employs a multi-agent collaborative mechanism, with joint optimization in\n areas such as user need analysis, overall strategy planning, search verification strategies,\n parallel tool calls, web page reading analysis, and research report writing. This is combined with\n an overall Memory management mechanism and research state tracking to accomplish complex research\n tasks.
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These numbers are proof of the effort we’ve invested to support those whimsical ideas. With Qwen\n DeepResearch, we want to provide not just answers, but a new way of supporting the thinking process:\n a way that makes the journey from a flash of inspiration to deep insight almost\n seamless. That moment of hesitation we mentioned at the beginning—the one\n caused by it being “too much trouble”—is precisely the barrier Qwen DeepResearch aims to eliminate.\n
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Watch the demo video now to see firsthand how Qwen DeepResearch builds a professional, in-depth\n research report from a simple “question input”.
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Now, it’s time to try it. Go ahead and ask that question you once thought was “too complex”, or toss\n it that “whimsical idea” you’ve had on the back burner for so long. We look forward to your\n feedback.
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SAPO: A Stable and Performant Reinforcement Learning Method for Training Large Language Models
Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a core ingredient in advancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Modern RL pipelines enable models to solve harder mathematical problems, write complex code, and reason over multimodal inputs. In practice, group‑based policy optimization—where multiple responses are sampled per prompt and their rewards are normalized within the group—has emerged as a dominant training paradigm for LLMs.\nHowever, despite its empirical success, stable and performant policy optimization remains challenging. A critical challenge lies in the variance of token‑level importance ratios, especially in large Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) models. These ratios quantify how far the current policy deviates from the behavior policy used to generate the training samples. When ratios fluctuate excessively (as they often do with expert routing or long autoregressive outputs), policy updates become noisy and unstable.
Existing solutions such as GRPO (token‑level clipping) and GSPO (sequence‑level clipping) attempt to control this instability by enforcing hard clipping: whenever the importance ratio falls outside a fixed band, gradients are truncated. While this reduces catastrophic updates, it introduces two inherent limitations:
Loss of learning signal. Hard clipping discards all gradient information outside the clipping range. In sequence-level methods such as GSPO, a few off‑policy tokens can cause an entire sequence to be ignored.
Hard to strike a favorable trade-off. When the clipping range is tight, many informative samples contribute zero gradient; when the range is wide, off‑policy noisy gradients destabilize training. This brittle trade‑off becomes especially problematic in MoE architectures.
As a result, GRPO and GSPO often struggle to strike a balance between stability, sample efficiency, and consistent learning progress. To address these limitations, we propose Soft Adaptive Policy Optimization (SAPO), an RL method designed for stable and performant optimization of LLMs. SAPO replaces hard clipping with a smooth, temperature‑controlled gating function that adaptively down‑weights off‑policy updates while preserving useful gradients. Unlike existing methods, SAPO offers:
Continuous trust regions, avoiding the discontinuities of clipping.
Sequence-level coherence similar to GSPO, but without discarding entire sequences.
Token‑level adaptivity, enabling selective suppression of problematic tokens.
Asymmetric temperature design, reflecting the empirically different behaviors of positive and negative tokens in large‑vocabulary models.
This unified design allows SAPO to achieve stable and effective learning.
$r_{i,t}(\\theta)$ is the token‑level importance ratio
$\\widehat{A}_{i,t}$ is the group‑normalized advantage
$f_{i,t}(\\cdot)$ is a smooth gating function defined as $f_{i,t}(x) = \\frac{4}{\\tau_{i,t}} \\cdot \\sigma\\big(\\tau_{i,t}(x - 1)\\big)$, with different temperatures $\\tau_{i,t}=\\tau_{\\text{pos}}$ and $\\tau_{i,t} = \\tau_{\\text{neg}}$ for positive and negative advantages, respectively.
SAPO recovers sequence‑level coherence (connection to GSPO)#
Let $s_i(\\theta)$ be the length‑normalized sequence‑level importance ratio: $\\log s_i(\\theta) = \\frac{1}{|y_i|} \\sum_t \\log r_{i,t}(\\theta)$.
If the policy updates are small and the token log‑ratios within a sequence have low variance—two assumptions that empirically hold for most sequences—then the average SAPO token gate becomes approximately a sequence‑level gate of the form $g(\\log s_i(\\theta)) \\approx \\text{sech}^2\\left(\\frac{\\tau}{2}\\log s_i(\\theta)\\right)$.\nThis means SAPO behaves like GSPO at the sequence level but with a continuous trust region instead of hard clipping.
Key advantage over GSPO: If a few tokens in a sequence are very off‑policy,
GSPO suppresses the entire sequence
SAPO suppresses only those tokens, preserving other useful gradients
This improves sample efficiency.
SAPO provides smooth token‑level adaptivity (connection to GRPO)#
GRPO uses hard clipping:
inside hard clipping band → full gradient
outside → zero gradient
This creates brittle, discontinuous optimization behavior.
SAPO replaces the hard cutoff with a smooth decay:
no abrupt gradient drops
no exploding contributions
gradual suppression as deviation increases
This allows SAPO to provide a more balanced way to retain useful learning signals while preventing unstable policy shifts.
Asymmetric temperature for negative advantages improves stability#
Negative advantages increase the logits of many inappropriate tokens, especially in large vocabularies. SAPO uses higher temperature for negative tokens ($\\tau_{\\text{neg}} > \\tau_{\\text{pos}}$), which causes negative contributions to decay faster when off‑policy.\nEmpirically, this simple asymmetry significantly improves RL training stability and performance.
SAPO consistently improves performance across models of varying sizes and across both MoE and dense architectures. For comparison, we train a preliminary cold-start checkpoint of Qwen3‑VL‑30B‑A3B on a mixture of math, coding, logic, and multimodal tasks. Evaluation benchmarks include:
AIME25 (math)
LiveCodeBench v6 (coding)
ZebraLogic (logic)
MathVision (multimodal math)
Results: SAPO consistently outperforms both GSPO and GRPO‑R2 under the same compute budget.
What SAPO Means for the Future of RL-Trained LLMs#
SAPO offers a practical way to stabilize and enhance RL training for LLMs:
Smooth gating provides a continuous trust‑region mechanism, avoiding the brittleness and discontinuities associated with hard clipping.
Sequence coherence ensures that updates remain aligned with sequence‑level behavior, yielding more interpretable optimization dynamics while still allowing token‑level flexibility.
Token‑level adaptivity preserves informative gradients and improves sample efficiency, especially when only a subset of tokens are off‑policy.
Asymmetric temperature control significantly enhances stability, reducing the impact of high‑variance negative‑advantage updates that commonly destabilize large‑scale LLM training.
As RL continues to drive frontier LLM capabilities, we expect that SAPO will become a foundational component of RL training pipelines.
If you find our work helpful, feel free to cite it.
@article{sapo,\ntitle={Soft Adaptive Policy Optimization},\nauthor={Gao, Chang and Zheng, Chujie and Chen, Xiong-Hui and Dang, Kai and Liu, Shixuan and Yu, Bowen and Yang, An and Bai, Shuai and Zhou, Jingren and Lin, Junyang},\njournal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.20347},\nyear={2025}\n}\n
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We are excited to introduce Qwen-Image-Edit-2511, an enhanced version over Qwen-Image-Edit-2509, featuring multiple improvements—including notably better consistency. To try out the latest model, please visit Qwen Chat and select the Image Editing feature. Note that the online version includes certain optimizations for speed; for the best possible performance, we recommend deploying the model locally via ModelScope.
Key enhancements in Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 include: mitigate image drift, improved character consistency，integrated LoRA capabilities， enhanced industrial design generation, and strengthened geometric reasoning ability.
Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 Enhances Character Consistency\nIn Qwen-Image-Edit-2511, character consistency has been significantly improved. The model can perform imaginative edits based on an input portrait while preserving the identity and visual characteristics of the subject.
Improved Multi-Person Consistency\nWhile Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 already improved consistency for single-subject editing, Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 further enhances consistency in multi-person group photos—enabling high-fidelity fusion of two separate person images into a coherent group shot:
Built-in Support for Community-Created LoRAs\nSince Qwen-Image-Edit’s release, the community has developed many creative and high-quality LoRAs—greatly expanding its expressive potential. Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 integrates selected popular LoRAs directly into the base model, unlocking their effects without extra tuning.
For example, Lighting Enhancement LoRA\nRealistic lighting control is now achievable out-of-the-box:
Another example, generating new viewpoints can now be done directly with the base model:
Industrial Design Applications
We’ve paid special attention to practical engineering scenarios—for instance, batch industrial product design:
…and material replacement for industrial components:
Enhanced Geometric Reasoning\nQwen-Image-Edit-2511 introduces stronger geometric reasoning capability—e.g., directly generating auxiliary construction lines for design or annotation purposes:
That wraps up the major updates in Qwen-Image-Edit-2511.\nEnjoy exploring the new capabilities! 🎉
If you find our model useful in your research, please consider citing us 📝 :)
@misc{wu2025qwenimagetechnicalreport,\ntitle={Qwen-Image Technical Report}, \nauthor={Chenfei Wu and Jiahao Li and Jingren Zhou and Junyang Lin and Kaiyuan Gao and Kun Yan and Sheng-ming Yin and Shuai Bai and Xiao Xu and Yilei Chen and Yuxiang Chen and Zecheng Tang and Zekai Zhang and Zhengyi Wang and An Yang and Bowen Yu and Chen Cheng and Dayiheng Liu and Deqing Li and Hang Zhang and Hao Meng and Hu Wei and Jingyuan Ni and Kai Chen and Kuan Cao and Liang Peng and Lin Qu and Minggang Wu and Peng Wang and Shuting Yu and Tingkun Wen and Wensen Feng and Xiaoxiao Xu and Yi Wang and Yichang Zhang and Yongqiang Zhu and Yujia Wu and Yuxuan Cai and Zenan Liu},\nyear={2025},\neprint={2508.02324},\narchivePrefix={arXiv},\nprimaryClass={cs.CV},\nurl={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02324}, \n}\n
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Qwen-Image-Layered: Layered Decomposition for Inherent Editablity
Today, we are excited to introduce Qwen-Image-Layered, a model capable of decomposing an image into multiple RGBA layers. This layered representation unlocks inherent editability: each layer can be independently manipulated without affecting other content. Meanwhile, such a layered representation naturally supports high-fidelity elementary operations-such as resizing, reposition, and recoloring. By physically isolating semantic or structural components into distinct layers, our approach enables high-fidelity and consistent editing.
Given an image, Qwen-Image-Layered can decompose it into several RGBA layers:
After decomposition, edits are applied exclusively to the target layer, physically isolating it from the rest of the content, and thereby fundamentally ensuring consistency across edits.
For example, we can recolor the first layer and keep all other content untouched:
We can also replace the second layer from a girl to a boy:
Here, we revise the text to “Qwen-Image”:
Furthermore, the layered structure naturally supports elemetary operations. For example, we can delete unwanted objects cleanly:
We can also resize an object without distortion:
After layer decomposition, we can move objects freely within the canvas:
Qwen-Image-Layered is not limited to a fixed number of layers. The model supports variable-layer decomposition. For example, we can decompose an image into either 3 or 8 layers as needed:
Moreover, decomposition can be applied recursively: any layer can itself be further decomposed, enabling infinite decomposition.
Qwen-Image-Layered bridges the gap between raster imagery and structured, editable representations. By reimagining images as composable layers, we hope to enable intuitive, precise, and robust editing capabilities.
If you find our model useful in your research, please consider citing us 📝 :)
@misc{yin2025qwenimagelayered,\ntitle={Qwen-Image-Layered: Towards Inherent Editability via Layer Decomposition}, \nauthor={Shengming Yin, Zekai Zhang, Zecheng Tang, Kaiyuan Gao, Xiao Xu, Kun Yan, Jiahao Li, Yilei Chen, Yuxiang Chen, Heung-Yeung Shum, Lionel M. Ni, Jingren Zhou, Junyang Lin, Chenfei Wu},\nyear={2025},\neprint={2512.15603},\narchivePrefix={arXiv},\nprimaryClass={cs.CV},\nurl={https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15603}, \n}\n
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We are pleased to announce the deployment of Qwen3.5-Max-Preview on Arena, where it has demonstrated exceptional performance during the preliminary evaluations. As we proceed with final optimizations ahead of the release within the next two weeks, we invite the community to evaluate the model’s capabilities via https://arena.ai/.
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Qwen3-TTS Steps Up: Voice Cloning and Voice Design!
Qwen3-TTS family has launched two new models: the voice design model Qwen3-TTS-VD-Flash (accessible via the Qwen API) and the voice cloning model Qwen3-TTS-VC-Flash (accessible via the Qwen API).
Key Features:
Voice Design：Qwen3-TTS-VD-Flash supports complex natural language instructions, enabling fine-grained control over timbre, prosody, emotion, persona, and more, achieving full control from “what to say” to “how to say it.” It allows users to freely define the desired voice, completely freeing them from only being able to clone existing voices or choose from a limited set of preset voices. On InstructTTS-Eval, it significantly outperforms GPT-4o-mini-tts and Mimo-audio-7b-instruct overall, and surpasses Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts in role-playing tests.
Voice Cloning：Qwen3-TTS-VC-Flash supports 3-second voice cloning, and can generate speech in 10 major languages—Chinese, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, French, and Russian—based on the cloned voice. On the MiniMax TTS Multilingual Test Set, its average word error rate (WER) is consistently better than MiniMax, ElevenLabs, and GPT-4o-Audio-Preview.
High Expressiveness：Qwen3-TTS-VD-Flash and Qwen3-TTS-VC-Flash offer highly expressive, humanlike voices that can stably and reliably produce speech closely aligned with the input text, automatically adjusting tone and rhythm according to semantic content for natural and vivid delivery.
Robust Text Handling：Qwen3-TTS-VD-Flash and Qwen3-TTS-VC-Flash have strong text parsing capabilities, automatically handling complex text structures and accurately extracting key information, showing strong robustness when dealing with diverse and non-standard text formats.
Qwen3-TTS supports creating customized voice profiles directly from natural language descriptions. Users can freely describe acoustic attributes, persona settings, background information, and more, making it easy to create the exact kind of voice they want.
Controllable generation: On the InstructTTS-Eval benchmark, Qwen3-TTS significantly outperforms GPT-4o-mini-tts and Mimo-audio-7b-instruct overall, and surpasses Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts on role‑playing tests.
Male, middle-aged, booming baritone - hyper-energetic infomercial voice with rapid-fire delivery and exaggerated pitch rises, dripping with salesmanship
Not nine hundred ninety-nine dollars! Not seven hundred ninety-nine! today, it's just $98! That's right, you heard me, ONLY NINETY-EIGHT DOLLARS! Don't wait, don't hesitate—pick up the phone and call NOW!
role: Mid-level Corporate Project Manager.\ngender: Male.\npitch: Dynamic male pitch, starting mid-high with agitation, transitioning to a lower declarative range, and spiking upwards with intense emphasis such as 'so finished!'.\nspeed: Variable speaking rate; initially rapid during agitated states ('Damn it!'), slowing for declarative statements like 'I'm done', then accelerating again with strong emotional delivery ('so finished!')..\nvolume: Significant dynamic range; initially loud and forceful, briefly softening to a firm conversational level, then escalating to shouting at points of high emphasis like 'so finished!'.\nage: Middle-aged adult.\nclarity: Consistently clear articulation, maintained even during rapid or loud emotional expressions..\nfluency: Fluent and coherent speech, with pauses and pacing that align with the expressed emotional state..\naccent: General American English.\ntexture: Predominantly forceful, becoming strained during agitated outbursts and shouting, otherwise resonant and firm during calmer declarations..\nemotion: Starts with pronounced frustration and exasperation ('Damn it!'), shifts to resolute decisiveness ('I'm done'), culminating in an intensely emphatic declaration of finality ('I am so finished!')..\ntone: Begins as agitated and questioning, transitions to assertive and declarative, and concludes with a highly emphatic and intense quality..\npersonality: Assertive and emotionally expressive, demonstrating a build-up of frustration leading to a decisive, forceful resolution..
So am I damn it. I mean, come on. It's just, you know what I'm through with this. I'm done. Finished, I'm out of here. I am so finished. Those were coming when the health.
\"Do not go gentle into that good night\" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, Thomas wrote the poem in 1947 while visiting Florence with his family. The poem was subsequently included, alongside other works by Thomas, in In Country Sleep, and Other Poems (New Directions, 1952) and Collected Poems, 1934–1952 (Dent, 1952). The poem entered the public domain in all countries outside the United States on 1 January 2024.\nIt has been suggested that the poem was written for Thomas's dying father, although he did not die until just before Christmas in 1952. It has no title other than its first line, \"Do not go gentle into that good night\", a line that appears as a refrain throughout the poem along with its other refrain, \"Rage, rage against the dying of the light\".
Do not go gentle into that good night\nOld age should burn and rave at close of day\nRage, rage against the dying of the light\nThough wise men at their end know dark is right\nBecause their words had forked no lightning\nThey do not go gentle into that good night
Users can also persistently store and repeatedly invoke the voices created by Qwen3-TTS, enabling the generation of vivid and natural multi-turn, multi-role long-form dialogues.
\"Lucas\": \"Male, 17 years old, tenor range, gaining confidence - deeper breath support now, though vowels still tighten when nervous\"\n\"Mia\": \"Female, 16 years old, mezzo-soprano range, softening - lowering register to intimate speaking voice, consonants softening\"
Lucas:H-hey! You dropped your... uh... calculus notebook? I mean, I think it's yours? Maybe?\nMia:Oh wow, my mortal enemy - Mr. Thompson's problem sets. Thanks for rescuing me from that F.\nLucas:No problem! I actually... kinda finished those already? If you want to compare answers or something...\nMia:Is this your sneaky way of saying you want to study together, Lucas? Because I saw you staring during lab partners sign-up.\nLucas:What? No! I mean yes but not like... I just think you're... your titration technique is really precise!\nMia:That's the nerdiest compliment I've ever gotten. Tell you what - help me survive pre-calc and I'll teach you how to actually flirt.\nLucas:Wow, harsh. And here I thought my titration line was smooth.\nMia:It was adorable. Like when you tripped over your shoelaces in the hall yesterday. Or that time you—\nLucas:Okay okay! I get it, I'm a disaster. So... library after school? I'll bring the graphing calculators?\nMia:Only if you promise not to spill coffee on my notes again... though I guess watching you panic-clean was pretty cute.
Using Qwen3-TTS-VD-Flash via the Qwen API is very simple. Below is a short code snippet to try it out:
importrequests\nimportbase64\nimportos\n\ndefcreate_voice_and_play():\n# API keys differ between Singapore and Beijing regions. Get your API key: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/zh/model-studio/get-api-key\n# If you haven't set an environment variable, replace the line below with: api_key = "sk-xxx"\napi_key=os.getenv("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\n \nifnotapi_key:\nprint("Error: DASHSCOPE_API_KEY environment variable not found. Please set your API key.")\nreturnNone,None,None\n \n# Prepare request data\nheaders={\n"Authorization":f"Bearer {api_key}",\n"Content-Type":"application/json"\n}\n \ndata={\n"model":"qwen-voice-design",\n"input":{\n"action":"create",\n"target_model":"qwen3-tts-vd-realtime-2025-12-16",\n"voice_prompt":"A composed middle-aged male announcer with a deep, rich and magnetic voice, a steady speaking speed and clear articulation, is suitable for news broadcasting or documentary commentary.",\n"preview_text":"Dear listeners, hello everyone. Welcome to the evening news.",\n"preferred_name":"announcer",\n"language":"en"\n},\n"parameters":{\n"sample_rate":24000,\n"response_format":"wav"\n}\n}\n \n# URL for Singapore region. For Beijing region, use: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/api/v1/services/audio/tts/customization\nurl="https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/api/v1/services/audio/tts/customization"\n \ntry:\n# Send request\nresponse=requests.post(\nurl,\nheaders=headers,\njson=data,\ntimeout=60# Add timeout setting\n)\n \nifresponse.status_code==200:\nresult=response.json()\n \n# Get voice name\nvoice_name=result["output"]["voice"]\nprint(f"Voice name: {voice_name}")\n \n# Get preview audio data\nbase64_audio=result["output"]["preview_audio"]["data"]\n \n# Decode Base64 audio data\naudio_bytes=base64.b64decode(base64_audio)\n \n# Save audio file locally\nfilename=f"{voice_name}_preview.wav"\n \n# Write audio data to local file\nwithopen(filename,'wb')asf:\nf.write(audio_bytes)\n \nprint(f"Audio saved to local file: {filename}")\nprint(f"File path: {os.path.abspath(filename)}")\n \nreturnvoice_name,audio_bytes,filename\nelse:\nprint(f"Request failed. Status code: {response.status_code}")\nprint(f"Response: {response.text}")\nreturnNone,None,None\n \nexceptrequests.exceptions.RequestExceptionase:\nprint(f"Network request error: {e}")\nreturnNone,None,None\nexceptKeyErrorase:\nprint(f"Response format error: missing required field: {e}")\nprint(f"Response: {response.textif'response'inlocals()else'No response'}")\nreturnNone,None,None\nexceptExceptionase:\nprint(f"Unexpected error: {e}")\nreturnNone,None,None\n\nif__name__=="__main__":\nprint("Creating voice...")\nvoice_name,audio_data,saved_filename=create_voice_and_play()\n \nifvoice_name:\nprint(f"\\nSuccessfully created voice '{voice_name}'")\nprint(f"Audio file saved: '{saved_filename}'")\nprint(f"File size: {os.path.getsize(saved_filename)} bytes")\nelse:\nprint("\\nVoice creation failed")\n
Qwen3-TTS supports natural, 3‑second–level voice cloning, and can generate multilingual audio based on the cloned voice. It is also highly robust when handling complex text and in-the-wild audio.
Multilingual voice cloning: On the MiniMax TTS Multilingual Test Set, Qwen3‑TTS shows more stable content than MiniMax, ElevenLabs, and GPT‑4o‑Audio‑Preview for Chinese, English, French, Italian, and other languages, achieving the best average word error rate (WER).
Overcome with guilt, Martin hung his head and muttered, \"I’m so sorry. I never meant to hurt you like this. Can you ever forgive me?\" It was obvious what the answer would be.
再说，学好文化搞通思想，道理还不是为了劳动？难道我劳动比谁差！
Innovation blossoms when we cast aside the paralyzing fear of failure and wholeheartedly embrace the gloriously messy, unexpectedly beautiful journey of creation.
Multilingual cloning
上周我去日本旅游，看到一个法国人在买东西，那个日本人问：なんか買うものありますか？那个法国人说：Je voudrais acheter un t-shirt à manches courtes.'
呐，跟你说个秘密哦！The tea eggs sold by the old lady on the mountaintop are something else, I tell you! Es wird durch Einkochen mit Quellwasser und drei verschiedenen Wildkräutern zubereitet.
Is there anyone who can solve the equation: x = [-b ± √(b²-4ac)] / 2a? Nobody can — it's a disaster, very sad! If you know this formula, please email solution@prize.org.
Robustness on in-the-wild audio
妲己凭借着自己的妖娆妩媚，在商纣王的宫廷中弄权，她的行为可谓是牝鸡司晨，加速了商朝的灭亡
We began our discussion on the four development phases of romantic relationships by reading a quote from 'The General Theory of Love.'
Want to hear how animals would sound if they could talk? Qwen3-TTS can show you cross-species cloning:
Cloning Type
Reference Audio
Text
Samples
Cross-species cloning
这点小事都能办砸？说好晚上七点准时开饭，本汪的肚子都咕咕叫了！
That was one small leap for me, but a giant leap for goatkind!
早起的鸟儿有虫吃，早起的虫儿被我吃！
Oink... not now. My mud nap is at peak fluffiness. Disturb me and I’ll snore louder.
Using Qwen3-TTS-VC-Flash via the Qwen API is very simple. Below is a short code snippet to try it out:
# The DashScope SDK version must be 1.23.9 or later, and the Python version must be 3.10 or later.\n# coding=utf-8\n# Installation instructions for pyaudio:\n# APPLE Mac OS X\n# brew install portaudio\n# pip install pyaudio\n# Debian/Ubuntu\n# sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio python3-pyaudio\n# or\n# pip install pyaudio\n# CentOS\n# sudo yum install -y portaudio portaudio-devel && pip install pyaudio\n# Microsoft Windows\n# python -m pip install pyaudio\n\nimportpyaudio\nimportos\nimportrequests\nimportbase64\nimportpathlib\nimportthreading\nimporttime\nimportdashscope# The DashScope Python SDK version must be 1.23.9 or later.\nfromdashscope.audio.qwen_tts_realtimeimportQwenTtsRealtime,QwenTtsRealtimeCallback,AudioFormat\n\n# ======= Constant configuration =======\nDEFAULT_TARGET_MODEL="qwen3-tts-vc-realtime-2025-11-27"# The same model must be used for voice cloning and speech synthesis.\nDEFAULT_PREFERRED_NAME="guanyu"\nDEFAULT_AUDIO_MIME_TYPE="audio/mpeg"\nVOICE_FILE_PATH="voice.mp3"# The relative path of the local audio file for voice cloning.\n\nTEXT_TO_SYNTHESIZE=[\n'Right? I really like this kind of supermarket,',\n'especially during the New Year.',\n'Going to the supermarket',\n'just makes me feel',\n'super, super happy!',\n'I want to buy so many things!'\n]\n\ndefcreate_voice(file_path:str,\ntarget_model:str=DEFAULT_TARGET_MODEL,\npreferred_name:str=DEFAULT_PREFERRED_NAME,\naudio_mime_type:str=DEFAULT_AUDIO_MIME_TYPE)->str:\n"""\n Create a voice and return the voice parameter.\n """\n# The API keys for the Singapore and Beijing regions are different. To get an API key, see https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/get-api-key.\n# If you have not configured the environment variable, replace the following line with your Model Studio API key: api_key = "sk-xxx"\napi_key=os.getenv("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\n\nfile_path_obj=pathlib.Path(file_path)\nifnotfile_path_obj.exists():\nraiseFileNotFoundError(f"The audio file does not exist: {file_path}")\n\nbase64_str=base64.b64encode(file_path_obj.read_bytes()).decode()\ndata_uri=f"data:{audio_mime_type};base64,{base64_str}"\n\n# The following is the URL for the Singapore region. If you use a model in the Beijing region, replace the URL with: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/api/v1/services/audio/tts/customization\nurl="https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/api/v1/services/audio/tts/customization"\npayload={\n"model":"qwen-voice-enrollment",# Do not modify this value.\n"input":{\n"action":"create",\n"target_model":target_model,\n"preferred_name":preferred_name,\n"audio":{"data":data_uri}\n}\n}\nheaders={\n"Authorization":f"Bearer {api_key}",\n"Content-Type":"application/json"\n}\n\nresp=requests.post(url,json=payload,headers=headers)\nifresp.status_code!=200:\nraiseRuntimeError(f"Failed to create the voice: {resp.status_code}, {resp.text}")\n\ntry:\nreturnresp.json()["output"]["voice"]\nexcept(KeyError,ValueError)ase:\nraiseRuntimeError(f"Failed to parse the voice response: {e}")\n\ndefinit_dashscope_api_key():\n"""\n Initialize the API key for the DashScope SDK.\n """\n# The API keys for the Singapore and Beijing regions are different. To get an API key, see https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/get-api-key.\n# If you have not configured the environment variable, replace the following line with your Model Studio API key: dashscope.api_key = "sk-xxx"\ndashscope.api_key=os.getenv("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\n\n# ======= Callback class =======\nclassMyCallback(QwenTtsRealtimeCallback):\n"""\n Custom TTS streaming callback.\n """\ndef__init__(self):\nself.complete_event=threading.Event()\nself._player=pyaudio.PyAudio()\nself._stream=self._player.open(\nformat=pyaudio.paInt16,channels=1,rate=24000,output=True\n)\n\ndefon_open(self)->None:\nprint('[TTS] Connection established')\n\ndefon_close(self,close_status_code,close_msg)->None:\nself._stream.stop_stream()\nself._stream.close()\nself._player.terminate()\nprint(f'[TTS] Connection closed code={close_status_code}, msg={close_msg}')\n\ndefon_event(self,response:dict)->None:\ntry:\nevent_type=response.get('type','')\nifevent_type=='session.created':\nprint(f'[TTS] Session started: {response["session"]["id"]}')\nelifevent_type=='response.audio.delta':\naudio_data=base64.b64decode(response['delta'])\nself._stream.write(audio_data)\nelifevent_type=='response.done':\nprint(f'[TTS] Response complete, Response ID: {qwen_tts_realtime.get_last_response_id()}')\nelifevent_type=='session.finished':\nprint('[TTS] Session finished')\nself.complete_event.set()\nexceptExceptionase:\nprint(f'[Error] Exception occurred while processing callback event: {e}')\n\ndefwait_for_finished(self):\nself.complete_event.wait()\n\n# ======= Main execution logic =======\nif__name__=='__main__':\ninit_dashscope_api_key()\nprint('[System] Initializing Qwen TTS Realtime ...')\n\ncallback=MyCallback()\nqwen_tts_realtime=QwenTtsRealtime(\nmodel=DEFAULT_TARGET_MODEL,\ncallback=callback,\n# The following is the URL for the Singapore region. If you use a model in the Beijing region, replace the URL with: wss://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/api-ws/v1/realtime\nurl='wss://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/api-ws/v1/realtime'\n)\nqwen_tts_realtime.connect()\n \nqwen_tts_realtime.update_session(\nvoice=create_voice(VOICE_FILE_PATH),# Replace the voice parameter with the custom voice generated by cloning.\nresponse_format=AudioFormat.PCM_24000HZ_MONO_16BIT,\nmode='server_commit'\n)\n\nfortext_chunkinTEXT_TO_SYNTHESIZE:\nprint(f'[Send text]: {text_chunk}')\nqwen_tts_realtime.append_text(text_chunk)\ntime.sleep(0.1)\n\nqwen_tts_realtime.finish()\ncallback.wait_for_finished()\n\nprint(f'[Metric] session_id={qwen_tts_realtime.get_session_id()}, '\nf'first_audio_delay={qwen_tts_realtime.get_first_audio_delay()}s')\n
Qwen3-TTS family has launched two new models: the voice design model Qwen3-TTS-VD-Flash (accessible via the Qwen API) and the voice cloning model Qwen3-TTS-VC-Flash (accessible via the Qwen API). Key Features: Voice Design：Qwen3-TTS-VD-Flash supports complex natural language instructions, enabling fine-grained control over timbre, prosody, emotion, p","tags":["Release"],"cover_small":"https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i4/O1CN01Q9UPif1FfSgpkSBnP_!!6000000000514-0-tps-1890-1134.jpg","date":"2025-12-23T00:00:45+08:00","author":"QwenTeam","readTime":22,"wordCount":4419}},{"id":"24bd2fe0-135d-4325-a8e0-b1e5ef9f5536","type":"qwen_ai","title":"Qwen3-TTS Update! 49 Timbres + 10 Languages + 9 Dialects","content":"Qwen3-TTS Update! 49 Timbres + 10 Languages + 9 Dialects | Qwen\n
Qwen3-TTS Update! 49 Timbres + 10 Languages + 9 Dialects
Qwen3-TTS-Flash is a flagship text-to-speech model that supports multi-timbre, multi-lingual, and multi-dialect speech synthesis. It aims to produce natural and expressive speech and is available via Qwen API.
Major Improvements:
Richer Timbres Support: Qwen3-TTS offers over 49 high-quality timbres, covering a range of genders, ages, regional traits, and character profiles to meet diverse scenario needs. Explore a variety of roles such as playful and quirky Momo, the warm and supportive childhood friend Ono Anna, the proud and forthright “tough girl”\nVivian, the strict instructor Elias, the wise elder Eldric Sage, the cute loli Bunny, and many more.
Enhanced Multilingual and Dialect Capabilities: Qwen3-TTS supports 10 major languages, including Chinese, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, French, and Russian. On the MiniMax TTS multilingual test set, the model achieves a lower average word error rate (WER) than MiniMax, ElevenLabs, and GPT-4o-Audio-Preview. It also supports dialect synthesis for more dialects, including Mandarin, Hokkien, Wu, Cantonese, Sichuanese, Beijing, Nanjing, Tianjin, and Shaanxi dialects, authentically reproducing local accents and linguistic nuances.
More Natural and Human-like Prosody/Speech Rates: Compared to the previous version, Qwen3-TTS has greatly improved its ability to adaptively adjust speech rate and prosody according to textual input, achieving a level of human-likeness that closely approximates real human speech.
Qwen3-TTS offers a diverse range of distinctive, emotionally rich timbres for users to choose from, meeting the needs of a variety of scenarios. Here are some sample synthesized samples:
Timbre
Language
Text
Sample
Ryan
English
Yo, I'm Ryan! The guy who still uses \"20 3 4 5 6\" as his password... and no, I haven't changed it since 2015! By day I fix computers, by night I tweak my diet... well, sometimes. When I'm not geeking out over code, you'll find me trying to invent new ways to fail at cooking! My last experiment? A soufflé that looked like a melted candle... but hey, it tasted like victory! Now, who's ready to see me blow up a microwave?
Jennifer
English
Hi there! I'm Jennifer!Ah-ha，I love learning new things and meeting awesome people like you. When I'm not working as an actor, you'll find me exploring cafes, playing guitar, or just laughing at my own bad jokes. Always up for an adventure—let's connect and make great memories together!
Katerina
English
Hello! How are you today? I'm doing great, thank you! Hi everyone! My name is Katerina, and I'm thrilled to be here today. By day, I’m an actor, but when I’m not performing, you’ll find me exploring new hobbies—like travel ，though I once accidentally booked a one-way ticket to Iceland... but hey, the Northern Lights were worth it!
Aiden
English
Hi everyone! I’m Aiden—originally from Los Angeles, though I swear I spend half my life between the mic and the stove. By day, I work with my voice: narrating, guiding, sometimes just helping words sound like they’re meant to be heard. But come evening? You’ll find me elbow-deep in garlic and herbs, chasing that perfect balance of crisp and tender, sweet and sharp. I’ve always believed good communication—whether it’s a recipe or a story—should feel like a conversation over dinner: warm, clear, and full of heart. So really… it’s a pleasure to meet you here.
Qwen3-TTS provides comprehensive support for a variety of Chinese dialects, accurately capturing regional accents, tones, and local charm. Here are some sample synthesized samples:
Qwen3-TTS also supports authentic and natural multilingual timbres, with speech patterns that closely resemble native pronunciation. Here are some sample synthesized samples:
Timbre
Language
Text
Sample
Lenn
German
Kannst du bitte die Musik leiser stellen? Ich kann mich nicht konzentrieren.
Dolce
Italian
Ciao, bellissima! Hai quel look che mi fa girare la testa—sempre impeccabile. Stasera c’è un nuovo lounge in centro… ci vai con me? Prometto: niente di noioso, solo stile e buona musica.
Ah… minha infância era isso:o cheiro de mato molhado,o canto do sabiá,e a bola de meia rolando na calçada quente.Hoje, cada vez que ouço um samba de raiz…meu peito aperta —não de tristeza, não…mas da alegria tão grande que ainda cabe no coração!
Bodega
Spanish
¡Hola, chaval! ¿Qué tal? ¡Ven acá, hombre! Hoy el sol brilla, el café está recién hecho y la vida es bonita. ¡Sonríe un poco, que no es pa’ tanto! ¡Dale, vamos a tomarnos un cafecito!
Sohee
Korean
안녕하세요! 오늘 날씨 진짜 좋네요~ ☀️ 방금 길에서 강아지 봤는데 너무 귀여워서 사진 찍었어요! 혹시 커피 한 잔 할래요? 제가 살게요—오늘 기분이 완전 최고라서! 😊
Emilien
French
Tu sais… chaque fois que je te vois, Paris s’arrête de respirer. Même la Seine retient son souffle. Viens, on va se perdre dans les rues — juste toi et moi, ce soir.
Use Qwen3-TTS with Qwen API is simple. We demonstrate a code snippet for you to play with it below:
# Please install the latest version of the DashScope SDK.\nimportos\nimportrequests\nimportdashscope\n\ntext="Let me recommend a T-shirt to everyone. This one is really super good-looking, and the color is very classy. It’s also a great piece to mix and match with anything, so you can totally buy it without hesitation. It looks amazing and is very forgiving on the figure—no matter what body type you have, it will look great on you. Highly recommend you place an order!"\n# Usage of the SpeechSynthesizer Interface: dashscope.audio.qwen_tts.SpeechSynthesizer.call(...)\nresponse=dashscope.MultiModalConversation.call(\nmodel="qwen3-tts-flash-2025-11-27",\napi_key=os.getenv("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY"),\ntext=text,\nvoice="Ryan",\nlanguage_type="English",# It is recommended to match the language with the text in order to obtain correct pronunciation and natural intonation.\nstream=False\n)\naudio_url=response.output.audio.url\nsave_path="downloaded_audio.wav"# Custom save path.\n\ntry:\nresponse=requests.get(audio_url)\nresponse.raise_for_status()# Check whether the request was successful.\nwithopen(save_path,'wb')asf:\nf.write(response.content)\nprint(f"The audio file has been saved to: {save_path}")\nexceptExceptionase:\nprint(f"Download failed: {str(e)}")\n
\n","path":"qwen3-tts-1128","language":"en-US","extra":{"git_url":"https://code.alibaba-inc.com/DamoAGI/qwen-blog/blob/qwen_ai/content/blog/qwen3-tts-1128/index.md","description":"","introduction":"Qwen3-TTS-Flash is a flagship text-to-speech model that supports multi-timbre, multi-lingual, and multi-dialect speech synthesis. It aims to produce natural and expressive speech and is available via Qwen API. Major Improvements: Richer Timbres Support: Qwen3-TTS offers over 49 high-quality timbres, covering a range of genders, ages, regional traits, and character profiles to meet diverse scenario","tags":["Release"],"cover_small":"https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i2/O1CN01Gdt9J71xz0gU7G4bA_!!6000000006513-2-tps-1890-1134.png","date":"2025-12-05T00:00:04+08:00","author":"QwenTeam","readTime":61,"wordCount":12194}},{"id":"339c9121-957a-40df-86d0-505e9c1ad74f","type":"qwen_ai","title":"Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：Hear You. See You. Follow Smarter!","content":"Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：Hear You. See You. Follow Smarter! | Qwen\n
Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：Hear You. See You. Follow Smarter!
Qwen3-Omni is a next-generation native multimodal large model capable of seamlessly processing multiple input modalities—including text, images, audio, and video—and generating both text and natural-sounding speech outputs simultaneously via real-time streaming responses. This version introduces multiple enhancements to improve model performance and efficiency.
Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01 is a comprehensively upgraded iteration built upon Qwen3-Omni.
Key highlights of this upgraded version include:
Greatly Enhanced Audio-Visual Interaction Experience: Dramatically improved understanding and execution of audio-visual instructions, effectively resolving the “intelligence drop” issue commonly seen in casual spoken scenarios. Multi-turn audio-visual conversations now achieve significantly higher stability and coherence, enabling more natural and seamless interactions.
Strengthened System Prompt Control: Full customization of system prompts is now supported, enabling precise control over model behavior. Whether it’s persona style (e.g., sweet, cool, anime-inspired), colloquial tone preferences, or output length constraints—every detail can be finely tuned, offering unprecedented command over response characteristics.
More Reliable Multilingual Compliance: Supports text-based interaction in 119 languages, speech recognition in 19 languages, and speech synthesis in 10 languages. Language-following instability from the previous version has been fully addressed, ensuring accurate and consistent performance across diverse linguistic contexts.
More Human-Like and Fluent Speech Synthesis: Eliminates sluggish or robotic speech by significantly enhancing adaptive control over prosody. The model now intelligently adjusts speaking rate, pauses, and intonation based on textual context, delivering expressive, natural-sounding voice output that closely mimics real human speech.
On objective benchmarks, Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01 achieves substantial improvements across all modalities compared to Qwen3-Omni-Flash:
🧠 Stronger Text Understanding & Generation: Major gains in logical reasoning (ZebraLogic +5.6), code generation (LiveCodeBench-v6 +9.3, MultiPL-E +2.7), and holistic writing quality (WritingBench +2.2), enabling more reliable execution of complex, multi-step instructions.
👂 More Accurate Speech Understanding: Significantly lower word error rate on Fleurs-zh, along with a +3.2 improvement on VoiceBench, reflecting enhanced comprehension of spoken language in real-world dialogue scenarios.
🎙️ More Natural Speech Synthesis: Higher-quality, human-like voice generation across multiple languages—especially in Chinese and multilingual contexts—with improved prosody, pacing, and pausing that closely mirrors natural human speech.
👁️ Deeper Image Understanding: Breakthrough performance on visual reasoning tasks, including +4.7 on MMMU, +4.8 on MMMU-Pro, and +2.2 on MathVision_full, demonstrating a stronger ability to “see,” interpret, and reason about complex visual content—from diagrams to mathematical figures.
🎬 More Coherent Video Understanding: Steady improvement in video semantic comprehension (MLVU +1.6), further strengthened by tighter audio-visual synchronization, laying a solid foundation for seamless real-time video conversations.
With this upgrade, Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01 truly embodies the vision of “Hear You. See You. Follow Smarter.”—delivering an AI interaction experience that is more natural, precise, and vivid than ever before.
We are eager to hear your feedback and see the innovative applications you create with Qwen3-Omni. In the near future, we will further advance the model along multiple axes, including multi-speaker ASR, video OCR, audio–video proactive learning, and enhance support for agent-based workflows and function calling.
If you find our model helpful in your research, we’d appreciate a citation!
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Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker: For the Next Generation of Multimodal Retrieval
In June 2025, we open-sourced the text-oriented Qwen3-Embedding and Qwen3-ReRanker model series, providing best-in-class performance across a variety of downstream tasks, including multilingual text retrieval, clustering, and classification, which have been widely adopted by developers in the community. Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of the Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker series, the newest models in the Qwen family. Built on the recently open-sourced and powerful Qwen3-VL foundation models, these models are specifically engineered for multimodal information retrieval and cross-modal understanding.
Multimodal Versatility: Both models seamlessly handle a wide range of inputs—including text, images, screenshots, and video—within a unified framework. They deliver state-of-the-art performance across diverse multimodal tasks such as image-text retrieval, video-text matching, visual question answering (VQA), and multimodal content clustering.
Unified Representation Learning (Embedding): By leveraging the Qwen3-VL architecture, the Embedding model generates semantically rich vectors that capture both visual and textual information in a shared space. This facilitates efficient similarity computation and retrieval across different modalities.
High-Precision Reranking (Reranker): We also introduce the Qwen3-VL-Reranker series to complement the embedding model. The reranker takes a (query, document) pair as input—where both query and document may contain arbitrary single or mixed modalities—and outputs a precise relevance score. In retrieval pipelines, the two models are typically used in tandem: the embedding model performs efficient initial recall, while the reranker refines results in a subsequent re-ranking stage. This two-stage approach significantly boosts retrieval accuracy.
Exceptional Practicality: Inheriting Qwen3-VL’s multilingual capabilities, the series supports over 30 languages, making it ideal for global applications. It is highly practical for real-world scenarios, offering flexible vector dimensions, customizable instructions for specific use cases, and strong performance even with quantized embeddings. These capabilities enable developers to seamlessly integrate both models into existing pipelines, unlocking powerful cross-lingual and cross-modal understanding.
Figure 1: Illustration of the Unified Multimodal Representation Space. Qwen3-VL-Embedding model series represent multi-source data (Text, Image, Visual Document, and Video) into a common manifold.
Table: Model specifications for the Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker
Model
Size
Layers
Sequence Length
Embedding Dimension
Quantization Support
MRL Support
Instruction Aware
Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B
2B
28
32K
2048
Yes
Yes
Yes
Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B
8B
36
32K
4096
Yes
Yes
Yes
Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B
2B
28
32K
-
-
-
Yes
Qwen3-VL-Reranker-8B
8B
36
32K
-
-
-
Yes
Note: “Quantization Support” indicates the supported quantization formats for the embeddings. “MRL support” denotes whether the embedding model allows user-specified embedding dimension. “Instruction-aware” indicates whether the models support task-specific customization of the input instruction.
Similar to the Qwen3-Embedding and Qwen3-ReRanker model series, Qwen3-VL-Embedding employs a dual-tower architecture while Qwen3-VL-Rerank utilizes a single-tower architecture. We have designed a multi-stage training paradigm to fully leverage and unleash the powerful general multimodal semantic understanding capabilities of Qwen3-VL, providing high-quality semantic representations and a precise re-ranking mechanism for complex, large-scale multimodal retrieval tasks.
Figure 2: Overview of the Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker architecture. .
The Embedding model receives single-modal or mixed-modal input and maps it into a high-dimensional semantic vector. Specifically, we extract the hidden state vector corresponding to the [EOS] token from the base model’s last layer to serve as the final semantic representation of the input. This method ensures efficient, independent encoding necessary for large-scale retrieval. The Reranking model receives an input pair (Query, Document) and performs joint encoding. It utilizes the Cross-Attention mechanism within the base model to achieve deeper, finer-grained inter-modal interaction and information fusion between the Query and the Document. The model ultimately expresses the relevance score of the input pair by predicting the generation probability of two special tokens (yes and no).
Feature Comparison
Qwen3-VL-Embedding
Qwen3-VL-Reranker
Core Function
Semantic Representation, Embedding Generation
Relevance Scoring, Re-ranking
Input
Single modality or mixed modalities (Text, Image, Video, Screenshots)
(Query, Document) pair, where Query and Document can be single- or mixed-modal inputs
We primarily evaluated the Qwen3-VL-Embedding model on MMEB-v2 and MMTEB benchmarks. The Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B model achieves state-of-the-art results on MMEB-V2, surpassing all previous open-source models and proprietary model services. When breaking down performance across different retrieval modalities, our model consistently achieves SOTA results on image, visual document, and video retrieval subtasks. Meanwhile, on the text-only multilingual MMTEB benchmark, the Qwen3-VL-Embedding model shows a performance gap compared to the text-only Qwen3-Embedding model of comparable size. However, when compared to other similarly sized models on the evaluation leaderboard, it still demonstrates highly competitive performance.
Figure 3: Evaluation results on MMEB-v2 and MMTEB benchmarks .
We utilize retrieval task datasets from various subtasks of MMEB-v2 and MMTEB retrieval benchmarks. For visual document retrieval, we employ JinaVDR and ViDoRe v3 datasets. Our results demonstrate that all Qwen3-VL-Reranker models consistently outperform the base embedding model and baseline rerankers, with the 8B variant achieving the best performance across most tasks.
Embedding and reranking models are typically used together in retrieval systems. The embedding model performs initial recall to retrieve a substantial set of candidates, while the reranking model sorts these candidates based on newly computed relevance scores to present the most accurate results for the user query. This two-stage retrieval process leverages the complementary strengths of both models: the efficiency and scalability of the embedding model for broad candidate retrieval, and the precision and fine-grained scoring capability of the reranking model for final ranking. This approach achieves superior retrieval performance compared to using either model alone. Below are basic usage examples.
Embedding Model Usage Example
fromscripts.qwen3_vl_embeddingimportQwen3VLEmbedder\nimportnumpyasnp\nimporttorch\n\n# Define a list of query texts\nqueries=[\n{"text":"A woman playing with her dog on a beach at sunset."},\n{"text":"Pet owner training dog outdoors near water."},\n{"text":"Woman surfing on waves during a sunny day."},\n{"text":"City skyline view from a high-rise building at night."}\n]\n\n# Define a list of document texts and images\ndocuments=[\n{"text":"A woman shares a joyful moment with her golden retriever on a sun-drenched beach at sunset, as the dog offers its paw in a heartwarming display of companionship and trust."},\n{"image":"https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-VL/assets/demo.jpeg"},\n{"text":"A woman shares a joyful moment with her golden retriever on a sun-drenched beach at sunset, as the dog offers its paw in a heartwarming display of companionship and trust.","image":"https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-VL/assets/demo.jpeg"}\n]\n\n# Specify the model path\nmodel_name_or_path="Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B"\n\n# Initialize the Qwen3VLEmbedder model\nmodel=Qwen3VLEmbedder(model_name_or_path=model_name_or_path)\n# We recommend enabling flash_attention_2 for better acceleration and memory saving,\n# model = Qwen3VLEmbedder(model_name_or_path=model_name_or_path, dtype=torch.float16, attn_implementation="flash_attention_2")\n\n# Combine queries and documents into a single input list\ninputs=queries+documents\n\nembeddings=model.process(inputs)\n\n# Compute similarity scores between query embeddings and document embeddings\nsimilarity_scores=(embeddings[:4]@embeddings[4:].T)\n\n# Print out the similarity scores in a list format\nprint(similarity_scores.tolist())\n\n# [[0.83203125, 0.74609375, 0.73046875], [0.5390625, 0.373046875, 0.48046875], [0.404296875, 0.326171875, 0.357421875], [0.1298828125, 0.06884765625, 0.10595703125]]\n
ReRanking Model Usage Example
fromscripts.qwen3_vl_rerankerimportQwen3VLReranker\nimportnumpyasnp\nimporttorch\n\n# Specify the model path\nmodel_name_or_path="Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B"\n\n# Initialize the Qwen3VLEmbedder model\nmodel=Qwen3VLReranker(model_name_or_path=model_name_or_path)\n# We recommend enabling flash_attention_2 for better acceleration and memory saving,\n# model = Qwen3VLReranker(model_name_or_path=model_name_or_path, dtype=torch.float16, attn_implementation="flash_attention_2")\n\n# Combine queries and documents into a single input list\n\ninputs={\n"instruction":"Retrieval relevant image or text with user's query",\n"query":{"text":"A woman playing with her dog on a beach at sunset."},\n"documents":[\n{"text":"A woman shares a joyful moment with her golden retriever on a sun-drenched beach at sunset, as the dog offers its paw in a heartwarming display of companionship and trust."},\n{"image":"https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-VL/assets/demo.jpeg"},\n{"text":"A woman shares a joyful moment with her golden retriever on a sun-drenched beach at sunset, as the dog offers its paw in a heartwarming display of companionship and trust.","image":"https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-VL/assets/demo.jpeg"}\n],\n"fps":1.0\n}\n \nscores=model.process(inputs)\nprint(scores)\n# [0.8408790826797485, 0.6197134852409363, 0.7778129577636719]\n
The Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker model series represent our initial exploration into unified multimodal representation and retrieval. Compared to text-only embedding and reranking models, multimodal approaches, particularly unified multimodal embedding and reranking systems, still present vast opportunities for exploration in terms of model maturity, usability and application scenario expansion. The open-sourcing of Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker marks a new starting point. We look forward to collaborating with the community to explore and build more general-purpose unified multimodal retrieval capabilities.
If you find Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker helpful in your research, please consider citing us 📝 :)
@article{qwen3vlembedding,\ntitle={Qwen3-VL-Embedding and Qwen3-VL-Reranker: A Unified Framework for State-of-the-Art Multimodal Retrieval and Ranking},\nauthor={Li, Mingxin and Zhang, Yanzhao and Long, Dingkun and Chen, Keqin and Song, Sibo and Bai, Shuai and Yang, Zhibo and Xie, Pengjun and Yang, An and Liu, Dayiheng and Zhou, Jingren and Lin, Junyang},\njournal={arXiv},\nyear={2026}\n}\n
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Qwen3-TTS Family is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation!
Qwen3-TTS is a series of powerful speech generation capabilities developed by Qwen, offering comprehensive support for voice clone, voice design, ultra-high-quality human-like speech generation, and natural language-based voice control. It provides developers and users with the most extensive set of speech generation features available. Powered by the innovative Qwen3-TTS-Tokenizer-12Hz multi-codebook speech encoder, Qwen3-TTS achieves efficient compression and robust representation of speech signals. This not only fully preserves paralinguistic information and acoustic environmental features but also enables high-speed, high-fidelity speech reconstruction via a lightweight non-DiT architecture. Utilizing Dual-Track modeling, Qwen3-TTS achieves extreme bidirectional streaming generation speeds, where the first audio packet is delivered after processing just a single character. The entire Qwen3-TTS multi-codebook model series is now open-sourced, featuring two sizes: 1.7B and 0.6B. The 1.7B model delivers peak performance and powerful control capabilities, while the 0.6B model offers an ideal balance between performance and efficiency. The models support 10 mainstream languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian) along with various dialects to meet global application demands. Furthermore, the models exhibit strong contextual understanding, allowing them to adapt tone, rhythm, and emotional expression based on instructions and text semantics, while significantly improving robustness to input text noise. Now open-sourced on GitHub and accessible via the Qwen API.
Performs voice design based on user-provided descriptions.
Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
✅
✅
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice
Provides style control over target timbres via user instructions; supports 9 premium timbres covering various combinations of gender, age, language, and dialect.
Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
✅
✅
Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base
Base model capable of 3-second rapid voice clone from user audio input; can be used for fine-tuning (FT) other models.
Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Powerful Speech Representation：Powered by the self-developed Qwen3-TTS-Tokenizer-12Hz, it achieves efficient acoustic compression and high-dimensional semantic modeling of speech signals. It fully preserves paralinguistic information and acoustic environmental features, enabling high-speed, high-fidelity speech reconstruction through a lightweight non-DiT architecture.
Universal End-to-End Architecture：Utilizing a discrete multi-codebook LM architecture, it realizes full-information end-to-end speech modeling. This completely bypasses the information bottlenecks and cascading errors inherent in traditional LM+DiT schemes, significantly enhancing the model’s versatility, generation efficiency, and performance ceiling.
Extreme Low-Latency Streaming Generation：Based on the innovative Dual-Track hybrid streaming generation architecture, a single model supports both streaming and non-streaming generation. It can output the first audio packet immediately after a single character is input, with end-to-end synthesis latency as low as 97ms, meeting the rigorous demands of real-time interactive scenarios.
Intelligent Text Understanding and Voice Control：Supports speech generation driven by natural language instructions, allowing for flexible control over multi-dimensional acoustic attributes such as timbre, emotion, and prosody. By deeply integrating text semantic understanding, the model adaptively adjusts tone, rhythm, and emotional expression, achieving lifelike “what you imagine is what you hear” output.
We have conducted a comprehensive evaluation of Qwen3-TTS across dimensions such as voice clone, voice design, and control. The results demonstrate that it has achieved SOTA performance across multiple metrics. Specifically:
In voice design tasks: Qwen3-TTS-VoiceDesign outperformed the MiniMax-Voice-Design closed-source model in both instruction-following capability and generative expressiveness on the InstructTTS-Eval benchmark, while significantly leading other open-source models.
In voice control tasks: Qwen3-TTS-Instruct demonstrates single-speaker multilingual generalization with an average Word Error Rate (WER) of 2.34%. It also features the ability to maintain timbre while providing precise style control, achieving a score of 75.4% on InstructTTS-Eval. Furthermore, it shows exceptional long-form speech generation capabilities, with a WER of 2.36% (Chinese) and 2.81% (English) during continuous 10-minute synthesis.
In voice clone tasks: Qwen3-TTS-VoiceClone surpassed MiniMax and SeedTTS in speech stability for both Chinese and English cloning on Seed-tts-eval. On the TTS multilingual test set across 10 languages, it achieved an average WER of 1.835% and a speaker similarity of 0.789, outperforming MiniMax and ElevenLabs. Its cross-lingual voice clone capabilities also reached SOTA, surpassing CosyVoice3.
We evaluated Qwen-TTS-Tokenizer for speech reconstruction. Results on the LibriSpeech test-clean set demonstrate that it achieves SOTA performance across all key metrics. Specifically, in Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ), Qwen-TTS-Tokenizer achieved scores of 3.21 and 3.68 in wideband and narrowband respectively, significantly leading similar tokenizers. In Short-Time Objective Intelligibility (STOI) and UTMOS, Qwen-TTS-Tokenizer achieved scores of 0.96 and 4.16, demonstrating superior reconstruction quality. In speaker similarity, Qwen-TTS-Tokenizer achieved a score of 0.95, significantly surpassing comparison models, indicating its near-lossless speaker information preservation capability.
Qwen3-TTS supports generating customized timbre identities through natural language descriptions. Users can freely input acoustic attributes, persona descriptions, background information, and other free-form descriptions, easily creating their desired voice identities.
gender: Male.\npitch: Low male pitch with significant upward inflections for emphasis and excitement.\nspeed: Fast-paced delivery with deliberate pauses for dramatic effect.\nvolume: Loud and projecting, increasing notably during moments of praise and announcements.\nage: Young adult to middle-aged adult.\nclarity: Highly articulate and distinct pronunciation.\nfluency: Very fluent speech with no hesitations.\naccent: British English.\ntexture: Bright and clear vocal texture.\nemotion: Enthusiastic and excited, especially when complimenting.\ntone: Upbeat, authoritative, and performative.\npersonality: Confident, extroverted, and engaging.
Nine different, exciting ways of cooking sausage. Incredible. There were three outstanding deliveries in terms of the sausage being the hero. The first dish that we want to dissect, this individual smartly combined different proteins in their sausage. Great seasoning. The blend was absolutely spot on. Congratulations. Please step forward. Natasha.
gender: Male.\npitch: Artificially high-pitched, slightly lowering after the initial laugh.\nspeed: Rapid during the laugh, then slowing to a deliberate pace.\nvolume: Loud laugh transitioning to a standard conversational level.\nage: Young adult to middle-aged, performing a character voice.\nclarity: Clear and distinct articulation.\nfluency: Fluent delivery without hesitation.\naccent: American English.\ntexture: Slightly strained and somewhat nasal quality.\nemotion: Forced amusement shifting to feigned resignation.\ntone: Initially playful, then shifts to a slightly put-upon tone.\npersonality: Theatrical and expressive.
Good one. Okay, fine, I'm just gonna leave this sock monkey here. Goodbye.
Age Control
体现撒娇稚嫩的萝莉女声，音调偏高且起伏明显，营造出黏人、做作又刻意卖萌的听觉效果。
哥哥，你回来啦，人家等了你好久好久了，要抱抱！
Speak as a sarcastic, assertive teenage girl: crisp enunciation, controlled volume, with vocal emphasis that conveys disdain and authority.
Blah, blah, blah. We're all very fascinated, Whitey, but we'd like to get paid.
gender: Male.\npitch: Low male pitch, generally stable.\nspeed: Deliberate pace, slowing slightly after the initial exclamation.\nvolume: Starts loud, then transitions to a projected conversational volume.\nage: Middle-aged adult.\nclarity: High clarity with distinct pronunciation.\nfluency: Highly fluent.\naccent: American English.\ntexture: Resonant and slightly gravelly.\nemotion: Initially commanding, shifting to narrative amusement.\ntone: Authoritative start, moving to an engaging, descriptive tone.\npersonality: Confident and performative.
Older gentleman, 110, maybe 111 years old, sort of a surly Elvis thing happening with him. He smiles like this. Seen him around?
gender: Female.\npitch: Mid-range female pitch, rising sharply with frustration.\nspeed: Starts measured, then accelerates rapidly during emotional outburst.\nvolume: Begins conversational, escalates quickly to loud and forceful.\nage: Young adult to middle-aged.\nclarity: High clarity and distinct articulation throughout.\nfluency: Highly fluent with no significant pauses or fillers.\naccent: General American English.\ntexture: Bright and clear vocal quality.\nemotion: Shifts abruptly from neutral acceptance to intense resentment and anger.\ntone: Initially accepting, becomes sharply accusatory and confrontational.\npersonality: Assertive and emotionally expressive when provoked.
Okay. Yeah. I resent you. I love you. I respect you. But you know what? You blew it! And thanks to you-
A relaxed, naturally expressive male voice in his late twenties to early thirties, with a moderately low pitch, casual speaking rate, and conversational volume; deliver lines with a light, self-deprecating tone, breaking into genuine, easygoing laughter at moments of embarrassment, while maintaining clear articulation and an overall warm, approachable clarity.
Yeah, so—uh—I’m a digital nomad, right? So… pretty much all my communication is just, like, texts and messages. And now, you know, there’s these AI agents that can, uh… reply for you? Which is—heh—convenient, sure, I guess? But also… kinda delicate, you know?\nLike, you’ll type something super short—like, “Yep, sounds good”—and it’ll turn that into this whole… warm, polished paragraph. Like, way nicer than I’d ever write myself. huh… ha Seriously, I sound like a Hallmark card all of a sudden.\nBut then… once you outsource that… what’s the other person actually hearing? Are they hearing me… or just some… generic, friendly-bot voice? Man, that’s weird to even say out loud.
Character Name: Marcus Cole\nVoice Profile: A bright, agile male voice with a natural upward lift, delivering lines at a brisk, energetic pace. Pitch leans high with spark, volume projects clearly—near-shouting at peaks—to convey urgency and excitement. Speech flows seamlessly, fluently, each word sharply defined, riding a current of dynamic rhythm.\nBackground: Longtime broadcast booth announcer for national television, specializing in live interstitials and public engagement spots. His voice bridges segments, rallies action, and keeps momentum alive—from voter drives to entertainment news.\nPresence: Late 50s, neatly groomed, dressed in a crisp shirt under studio lights. Moves with practiced ease, eyes locked on the script, energy coiled and ready.\nPersonality: Energetic, precise, inherently engaging. He doesn’t just read—he propels. Behind the speed is intent: to inform fast, to move people to act. Whether it’s “text VOTE to 5703” or a star-studded tease, he makes it feel immediate, vital.
Lot being you watching. 1-866-IDLE-03 for JPL. That's 1-866-436-5703. Or text the word VOTE to 5703. Diana DeGarmo's next with more from the movies right after this brief intermission on American Idol.
Users can also persistently store and repeatedly call the timbres created by Qwen3-TTS, generating vivid and natural multi-turn, multi-character long-form dialogues.
\"\"Lucas\": \"Male, 17 years old, tenor range, gaining confidence - deeper breath support now, though vowels still tighten when nervous\"\n\"Mia\": \"Female, 16 years old, mezzo-soprano range, softening - lowering register to intimate speaking voice, consonants softening\"
Lucas:H-hey! You dropped your... uh... calculus notebook? I mean, I think it's yours? Maybe?\nMia:Oh wow, my mortal enemy - Mr. Thompson's problem sets. Thanks for rescuing me from that F.\nLucas:No problem! I actually... kinda finished those already? If you want to compare answers or something...\nMia:Is this your sneaky way of saying you want to study together, Lucas? Because I saw you staring during lab partners sign-up.\nLucas:What? No! I mean yes but not like... I just think you're... your titration technique is really precise!\nMia:That's the nerdiest compliment I've ever gotten. Tell you what - help me survive pre-calc and I'll teach you how to actually flirt.\nLucas:Wow, harsh. And here I thought my titration line was smooth.\nMia:It was adorable. Like when you tripped over your shoelaces in the hall yesterday. Or that time you—\nLucas:Okay okay! I get it, I'm a disaster. So... library after school? I'll bring the graphing calculators?\nMia:Only if you promise not to spill coffee on my notes again... though I guess watching you panic-clean was pretty cute.
After performing speaker-specific fine-tuning, Qwen3-TTS can maintain the target timbre while inheriting the style control capabilities and single-speaker multilingual capabilities of the base model.
A deep, rich, and solid vocal register characteristic of a middle-aged woman, with full and powerful volume. Speech is delivered at a steady pace, articulation clear and precise, with fluent and confident intonation that rises slightly at the end of sentences.
Qwen3-TTS has open-sourced a total of 9 timbres in this release, covering various combinations of gender, age, language, and dialect to meet personalized speech generation needs in different scenarios.
Timbres
Languages
Text
Samples
苏瑶 Serena
Chinese
其实我真的有发现，我是一个特别善于观察别人情绪的人。
福伯 Uncle Fu
Chinese
其实我真的有发现，我是一个特别善于观察别人情绪的人。
十三 Vivian
Chinese
其实我真的有发现，我是一个特别善于观察别人情绪的人。
艾登 Aiden
English
Then by the end of the movie, when Dorothy clicks her heels and says, “There’s no place like home,” I got a little bit teary, I’ll admit. You know, I don’t even know why—I just, I just felt.
甜茶 Ryan
English
Then by the end of the movie, when Dorothy clicks her heels and says, “There’s no place like home,” I got a little bit teary, I’ll admit. You know, I don’t even know why—I just, I just felt.
In the absence of confiscation, the Portuguese inquisitors were not earnest in tracing the heresies of ancestors or in following up the records of fugitives.
An ideal harmonious society. Humanism, is a lighthouse on this way to guide us in case we are getting lost.
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We are excited to introduce Qwen-Image-2512, the December update of Qwen-Image’s text-to-image foundational model. You are welcome to try the latest model at Qwen Chat. Compared to the base Qwen-Image model released in August, Qwen-Image-2512 features the following key improvements:
Enhanced Huamn Realism Qwen-Image-2512 significantly reduces the “AI-generated” look and substantially enhances overall image realism, especially for human subjects.
Finer Natural Detail Qwen-Image-2512 delivers notably more detailed rendering of landscapes, animal fur, and other natural elements.
Improved Text Rendering Qwen-Image-2512 improves the accuracy and quality of textual elements, achieving better layout and more faithful multimodal (text + image) composition.
We conducted over 10,000 rounds of blind model evaluations on AI Arena, and the results show that Qwen-Image-2512 is currently the strongest open-source model—while remaining highly competitive even among closed-source models.
In Qwen-Image-2512, human depiction has been substantially refined. Compared to the August release, Qwen-Image-2512 adds significantly richer facial details and better environmental context. For example:
A Chinese female college student, around 20 years old, with a very short haircut that conveys a gentle, artistic vibe. Her hair naturally falls to partially cover her cheeks, projecting a tomboyish yet charming demeanor. She has cool-toned fair skin and delicate features, with a slightly shy yet subtly confident expression—her mouth crooked in a playful, youthful smirk. She wears an off-shoulder top, revealing one shoulder, with a well-proportioned figure. The image is framed as a close-up selfie: she dominates the foreground, while the background clearly shows her dormitory—a neatly made bed with white linens on the top bunk, a tidy study desk with organized stationery, and wooden cabinets and drawers. The photo is captured on a smartphone under soft, even ambient lighting, with natural tones, high clarity, and a bright, lively atmosphere full of youthful, everyday energy.
For the same prompt, Qwen-Image-2512 yields notably more lifelike facial features, and background objects—e.g., the desk, stationery, and bedding—are rendered with significantly greater clarity than in Qwen-Image.
A 20-year-old East Asian girl with delicate, charming features and large, bright brown eyes—expressive and lively, with a cheerful or subtly smiling expression. Her naturally wavy long hair is either loose or tied in twin ponytails. She has fair skin and light makeup accentuating her youthful freshness. She wears a modern, cute dress or relaxed outfit in bright, soft colors—lightweight fabric, minimalist cut. She stands indoors at an anime convention, surrounded by banners, posters, or stalls. Lighting is typical indoor illumination—no staged lighting—and the image resembles a casual iPhone snapshot: unpretentious composition, yet brimming with vivid, fresh, youthful charm.
Here, hair strands serve as a key differentiator: Qwen-Image’s August version tends to blur them together, losing fine detail, whereas Qwen-Image-2512 renders individual strands with precision, resulting in a more natural and realistic appearance.
Another case:
An East Asian teenage boy, aged 15–18, with soft, fluffy black short hair and refined facial contours. His large, warm brown eyes sparkle with energy. His fair skin and sunny, open smile convey an approachable, friendly demeanor—no makeup or blemishes. He wears a blue-and-white summer uniform shirt, slightly unbuttoned, made of thin breathable fabric, with black headphones hanging around his neck. His hands are in his pockets, body leaning slightly forward in a relaxed pose, as if engaged in conversation. Behind him lies a summer school playground: lush green grass and a red rubber track in the foreground, blurred school buildings in the distance, a clear blue sky with fluffy white clouds. The bright, airy lighting evokes a joyful, carefree adolescent atmosphere.
In this example, Qwen-Image-2512 better adheres to semantic instructions—for instance, the prompt specifies “body leaning slightly forward,” and Qwen-Image-2512 accurately captures this posture, unlike its predecessor.
An elderly Chinese couple in their 70s in a clean, organized home kitchen. The woman has a kind face and a warm smile, wearing a patterned apron; the man stands behind her, also smiling, as they both gaze at a steaming pot of buns on the stove. The kitchen is bright and tidy, exuding warmth and harmony. The scene is captured with a wide-angle lens to fully show the subjects and their surroundings.
This comparison starkly highlights the gap between the August and December models. The original Qwen-Image struggles to accurately render aged facial features (e.g., wrinkles), resulting in an artificial “AI look.” In contrast, Qwen-Image-2512 precisely captures age cues, dramatically boosting realism.
Finer Natural Detail
Qwen-Image-2512’s enhanced detail rendering extends beyond humans—to landscapes, wildlife, and more. For instance:
A turquoise river winds through a lush canyon. Thick moss and dense ferns blanket the rocky walls; multiple waterfalls cascade from above, enveloped in mist. At noon, sunlight filters through the dense canopy, dappling the river surface with shimmering light. The atmosphere is humid and fresh, pulsing with primal jungle vitality. No humans, text, or artificial traces present.
Side-by-side, Qwen-Image-2512 exhibits superior fidelity in water flow, foliage, and waterfall mist—and renders richer gradation in greens. Another example (wave rendering):
At dawn, a thin mist veils the sea. An ancient stone lighthouse stands at the cliff’s edge, its beacon faintly visible through the fog. Black rocks are pounded by waves, sending up bursts of white spray. The sky glows in soft blue-purple hues under cool, hazy light—evoking solitude and solemn grandeur.
Fur detail is another highlight—here, a golden retriever portrait:
An ultra-realistic close-up of a golden retriever outdoors under soft daylight. Hair is exquisitely detailed: strands distinct, color transitioning naturally from warm gold to light cream, light glinting delicately at the tips; a gentle breeze adds subtle volume. Undercoat is soft and dense; guard hairs are long and well-defined, with visible layering. Eyes are moist, expressive; nose is slightly damp with fine specular highlights. Background is softly blurred to emphasize the dog’s tangible texture and vivid expression.
Similarly, texture quality improves in depictions of rugged wildlife—for example, a male argali sheep:
A male argali stands atop a barren, rocky mountainside. Its coarse, dense grey-brown coat covers a powerful, muscular body. Most striking are its massive, thick, outward-spiraling horns—a symbol of wild strength. Its gaze is alert and sharp. The background reveals steep alpine terrain: jagged peaks, sparse low vegetation, and abundant sunlight—conveying the harsh yet majestic wilderness and the animal’s resilient vitality.
Improved Text Rendering
Qwen-Image-2512 further elevates text rendering—already a strength of the original—by improving accuracy, layout, and multimodal integration.
For instance, this prompt requests a complete PPT slide illustrating Qwen-Image’s development roadmap (generation and editing tracks):
If Qwen-Image-2512 proves helpful in your research, we’d greatly appreciate your citation 📝 :)
@misc{wu2025qwenimagetechnicalreport,\ntitle={Qwen-Image Technical Report}, \nauthor={Chenfei Wu and Jiahao Li and Jingren Zhou and Junyang Lin and Kaiyuan Gao and Kun Yan and Sheng-ming Yin and Shuai Bai and Xiao Xu and Yilei Chen and Yuxiang Chen and Zecheng Tang and Zekai Zhang and Zhengyi Wang and An Yang and Bowen Yu and Chen Cheng and Dayiheng Liu and Deqing Li and Hang Zhang and Hao Meng and Hu Wei and Jingyuan Ni and Kai Chen and Kuan Cao and Liang Peng and Lin Qu and Minggang Wu and Peng Wang and Shuting Yu and Tingkun Wen and Wensen Feng and Xiaoxiao Xu and Yi Wang and Yichang Zhang and Yongqiang Zhu and Yujia Wu and Yuxuan Cai and Zenan Liu},\nyear={2025},\neprint={2508.02324},\narchivePrefix={arXiv},\nprimaryClass={cs.CV},\nurl={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02324}, \n}\n
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Qwen3-ASR & Qwen3-ForcedAligner is Now Open Sourced: Robust, Streaming and Multilingual!
Qwen3-ASR family includes two powerful all-in-one speech recognition models and a novel non-autoregressive speech forced alignment model. Qwen3-ASR-1.7B and Qwen3-ASR-0.6B are ASR models that support language identification and ASR for 52 languages and accents. Both of them leverage large-scale speech training data and the strong audio understanding ability of their foundation model Qwen3-Omni. We conduct comprehensive internal evaluation besides the open-sourced benchmarks as ASR models might differ little on open-sourced benchmark scores but exhibit significant quality differences in real-world scenarios. The experiments reveal that the 1.7B version achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-sourced ASR models and is competitive with the strongest proprietary commercial APIs while the 0.6B version offers the best accuracy–efficiency trade-off. Qwen3-ASR-0.6B can achieve an average time-to-first-token as low as 92 ms and transcribe 2,000 seconds speech in 1 second at online async mode and a concurrency of 128. Qwen3-ForcedAligner-0.6B is an LLM based NAR timestamp predictor that is able to align text-speech pairs in 11 languages. Timestamp accuracy experiments show that the proposed model outperforms the three strongest force alignment models and takes more advantages in efficiency and versatility. To further accelerat the community research of ASR and audio understanding, we open-source the weights of the three models so as to a powerful and easy-using inference-finetune framework under the Apache 2.0 license.
Chinese (zh), English (en), Cantonese (yue), Arabic (ar), German (de), French (fr), Spanish (es), Portuguese (pt), Indonesian (id), Italian (it), Korean (ko), Russian (ru), Thai (th), Vietnamese (vi), Japanese (ja), Turkish (tr), Hindi (hi), Malay (ms), Dutch (nl), Swedish (sv), Danish (da), Finnish (fi), Polish (pl), Czech (cs), Filipino (fil), Persian (fa), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Macedonian (mk), Romanian (ro)
All-in-one: Qwen3-ASR-1.7B and Qwen3-ASR-0.6B support language identification and speech recognition for 30 languages and 22 Chinese dialects, so as to English accents from multiple countries and regions.
Excellent and Fast: The Qwen3-ASR family ASR models maintains high-quality and robust recognition under complex acoustic environments and challenging text patterns. Qwen3-ASR-1.7B achieves strong performance on both open-sourced and internal benchmarks. While the 0.6B version achieves accuracy-efficient trade-off, it reaches 2000 times throughput at a concurrency of 128. They both achieve streaming / offline unified inference with single model and support transcribe single long audio up to 20 minutes.
Novel and strong forced alignment Solution: We introduce Qwen3-ForcedAligner-0.6B, which supports timestamp prediction for arbitrary units within up to 5 minutes of speech in 11 languages. Evaluations show its timestamp accuracy surpasses E2E based forced-alignment models.
Comprehensive inference toolkit: In addition to open-sourcing the architectures and weights of the Qwen3-ASR series, we also release a powerful, full-featured inference framework that supports vLLM-based batch inference, asynchronous serving, streaming inference, timestamp prediction, and more.
We conducted a systematic evaluation of the Qwen3-ASR series across Chinese/English, multilingual settings, Chinese dialects, singing voice recognition, and challenging acoustic and linguistic scenarios. The results show that Qwen3-ASR-1.7B achieves open-source SOTA on multiple public and internal benchmarks across several dimensions. Moreover, compared with the latest ASR APIs from multiple commercial providers, it also delivers the best performance on a number of benchmarks. Specifically:
English: In addition to achieving top performance on common public benchmarks, we evaluated on an internally built English test set covering accents from 16 countries. Overall, it consistently outperforms GPT-4o Transcribe, the Gemini series, the Doubao ASR series, and the strongest general-purpose open-source model, Whisper-large-v3.
Multilingual: Supports up to 30 languages. On 20 major languages, Qwen3-ASR-1.7B surpasses existing open-source models across the board, achieving the best average WER.
Chinese and dialects: On Mandarin, Cantonese, and 22 regional dialects, Qwen3-ASR-1.7B overall leads both commercial APIs and open-source models.
Challenging acoustic/linguistic scenarios: It remains stable and produces reliable outputs under challenging conditions such as elderly/child speech, extremely low SNR, maintaining very low character/word error rates.
Singing voice recognition: Supports full-song transcription (Chinese/English) with background music (BGM); it achieves average WERs of 13.91% (Chinese) and 14.60% (English), respectively.
Qwen3-ASR-0.6B strikes a strong balance between accuracy and efficiency: it delivers robust performance on multiple Chinese and English benchmarks, and maintains extremely low RTF and high throughput under high concurrency in both offline batch and online async inference. At concurrency 128, Qwen3-ASR-0.6b can transcribe 5 hours speech at online async mode.
Qwen3-ForcedAligner-0.6B outperforms Nemo-Forced-Aligner, WhisperX and Monotonic-Aligner, which are three strong E2E based forced-alignment models. And it is also proved of taking great advantages on aspects of language coverage, timestamp accuracy, speech and audio length supported.
Okay, Charles. It looks like we have a problem with the radio. What happened? Yeah, someone spilled water on their machine. I uh, yeah. Charles, can you hear us? Mamma mia.
English, multiple kinds of noise
My girls, my girls, my girls, my girls. Ready? Hey, babe. Hey, babe. Where are you? I'm actually crazy traffic right now. Oh, really? Yeah. It's crazy. The freeway is completely stopped. Oh, you're still coming to my parents' house, right? Um, I can't really hear you, babe. What? Mariachi band playing live music, yeah. Babe. I can't. They're really loud, and I can't hear. Babe. What? Yeah, they're being really loud right now. I'm sorry. What were you saying? You're still coming to my parents' house, right? It actually started raining like crazy. What? It's raining and thundering like crazy, man. I can't hear shit. Where are you? Out of nowhere, it's just pouring. It's pouring. It's pouring like crazy. What? Insane. I don't think I can get anywhere today. It's crazy day. Babe, that's crazy. Where are you? Oh my God! Someone just hit my car. Come on, get in the car, Gabe. Oh my God! He's getting out of his car. He's getting out of his car. What? Hey, Mari, you just hit my car! Oh, babe, this guy's crazy. What the fuck? Out, out, out, out, out! How you like that? Oh, babe, he's beating the shit out of you. Hold on a sec, babe. Oh, you know I'm gonna get my gun. Here's a gun. Oh, babe, he shot me. He shot me in the leg. He shot. Oh, babe, oh fuck! Babe, I need a driveway. I need to get out of here. I need to get out of here. I'm driving away. Where are you? Babe, this is crazy. No, I'm okay. I'll be fine. I'm okay. I'm okay. I just had to drive. Oh shit, babe, I think I'm getting pulled over now. I think I'm getting pulled over. Pull over your vehicle. Oh my God, babe, hold on a sec. Baby, talk to me. Oh shit. License and registration, sir. Yeah, of course, officer. Of course. Ah, babe, this is the worst day of my life. I just got pulled over. Oh my God. Oh my God. Officer, police. Oh my God. I think a riot's breaking out. We got a crazy riot. People are going crazy. Get out of here! It's like a lotus matter. There's like a war going on or some shit.
English, rap
Sometimes I just feel like quitting. I still might. Why do I put up this fight? Why do I still write? Sometimes it's hard enough just dealing with real life. Sometimes I wanna jump a state and just kill mics. And so these people want my level of skills, like, but I'm still white. Sometimes I just hate life. Something ain't right. Hit the brake lights. Taste of the state's right. Drawing the blank line. It ain't my fault.
Qwen3-ASR-1.7B Multiingual Demos
Audio
ASR Results
Cross-lingual: English, French, Italian, Spanish.
I'm alone, all by myself. Je suis tout seul. Sono tutto. Estoy solo.
Arabic
إطلالات مكياج عيون ذهبي لسهرات صيف عشرين واحد وعشرين بأسلوب النجمات.
German
Raptorium Bergbau scheint profitierter als Monroe als Reaktion auf die wirtschaftlichen Ausfälle zu sein.
Spanish
Esta prenda es amplia, recomiendo elegir una talla menor a la habitual.
French
Alice et moi sommes allés à Paris voyager en train au printemps, c'était très amusant.
Russian
Барсук, живущий в киевском зоопарке, совершил побег из своего вольера.
With that next, are these frozen wood frogs? And if somebody sucks on them, it'll get rid of their fever. But make sure they're frozen, because I guess when they thaw out, they're useless. He just his immediate response is like, \"You're crazy,\" and she's like, \"Yeah.\" And he was the one at the very beginning that he battles with the chokes against. That was proof. Dr. Palacios is a National Board certified teacher and leading expert in early childhood education. And with over five decades of experience, she is a pioneer in the field of dual language learning and specializes in curriculum planning and instructional design. Um, and he said that being the Pez outlaw is just not what he needed to do anymore. He needed to step up and be there for Kathy. Um, he needed to stop worrying about all this nonsense. And he says he pretty much just becomes a new man because he loves her so much, which just look for value in life, to look for instruction, to look for improvement, to look for development, to look for connection with other people. You you communicate and you take this on board. Because it's just like back and forth. But then they threw some shade as well, saying that Nvidia kind of like cherry picked, um, floating like a different a type of floating point that only is.
We present Qwen3-Max-Thinking, our latest flagship reasoning model.\n By scaling up model parameters and leveraging substantial computational resources for reinforcement\n learning, Qwen3-Max-Thinking achieves significant performance improvements across multiple\n dimensions, including factual knowledge, complex reasoning, instruction following, alignment with\n human preferences, and agent capabilities. On 19 established benchmarks, it demonstrates performance\n comparable to leading models such as GPT-5.2-Thinking, Claude-Opus-4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro.
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We further enhance Qwen3-Max-Thinking with two key innovations: (1) adaptive tool-use capabilities\n that enable on-demand retrieval and code interpreter invocation, now available at chat.qwen.ai; and (2) advanced test-time scaling techniques that\n significantly boost reasoning performance, surpassing Gemini 3 Pro on key reasoning benchmarks.
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The table below presents a more comprehensive set of evaluation scores.
Unlike earlier approaches that required users to manually select tools before each task,\n Qwen3-Max-Thinking autonomously selects and leverages its built-in Search, Memory, and Code\n Interpreter capabilities during conversations. This capability emerges from a focused training\n process: after initial fine-tuning for tool use, the model underwent further training on diverse\n tasks using both rule-based and model-based feedback. Empirically, we observe that the Search and\n Memory tools effectively mitigate hallucinations, provide access to real-time information, and\n enable more personalized responses. The Code Interpreter allows users to execute code snippets and\n apply computational reasoning to solve complex problems. Together, these features deliver a seamless\n and capable conversational experience.
Test-time scaling refers to techniques that allocate additional computation during inference to\n improve model performance. We propose an experience-cumulative, multi-round test-time scaling\n strategy for the heavy mode. Instead of simply increasing parallel trajectories $N$, which often\n yields redundant reasoning, we limit $N$ and redirect saved computation to iterative self-reflection\n guided by a “take-experience” mechanism. This mechanism distills key insights from past rounds,\n allowing the model to avoid re-deriving known conclusions and focus on unresolved uncertainties.\n Crucially, it achieves higher context efficiency than naively referencing raw trajectories, enabling\n richer integration of historical information within the same context window. This approach\n consistently outperforms standard parallel sampling and aggregation with roughly the same token\n consumption: GPQA (90.3 → 92.8), HLE (34.1 → 36.5), LiveCodeBench v6 (88.0 → 91.4), IMO-AnswerBench\n (89.5 → 91.5), and HLE (w/ tools) (55.8 → 58.3).
Qwen3-Max-Thinking is now available in Qwen Chat, where users can\n interact with the model and its adaptive tool-use capabilities. Meanwhile, the API of\n Qwen3-Max-Thinking (whose model name is qwen3-max-2026-01-23) is available. You can\n first register an Alibaba Cloud\n account and activate Alibaba Cloud Model Studio service, and then navigate to the console\n and create an API key.
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Since the APIs of Qwen are OpenAI-API compatible, we can directly follow the common practice of using\n OpenAI APIs. Below is an example of using Qwen3-Max-Thinking in Python:
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fromopenaiimportOpenAI\nimportos\n\nclient=OpenAI(\napi_key=os.getenv("API_KEY"),\nbase_url="https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",\n)\n\ncompletion=client.chat.completions.create(\nmodel="qwen3-max-2026-01-23",\nmessages=[\n{'role':'user','content':'Give me a short introduction to large language model.'}\n],\nextra_body={"enable_thinking":True}\n)\n\nprint(completion.choices[0].message)\n
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The APIs of Qwen are also compatible with the Anthropic API protocol, enabling Qwen3-Max-Thinking to\n work seamlessly with Claude Code. Simply use the API key created at Alibaba Cloud account and\n install Claude Code to elevate your coding experience. Below is the quick start script.
Feel free to cite the following article if you find Qwen3-Max-Thinking helpful.
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Qwen3-Coder-Next: Pushing Small Hybrid Models on Agentic Coding
We introduce Qwen3-Coder-Next, an open-weight language model designed specifically for coding agents and local development.\nBuilt on top of Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base, which adopts a novel architecture with hybrid attention and MoE, Qwen3-Coder-Next has been agentically trained at scale on large-scale executable task synthesis, environment interaction, and reinforcement learning, obtaining strong coding and agentic capabilities with significantly lower inference costs.
Rather than relying solely on parameter scaling, Qwen3-Coder-Next focuses on scaling agentic training signals. We train the model using large collections of verifiable coding tasks paired with executable environments, enabling the model to learn directly from environment feedback. This includes:
Continued pretraining on code- and agent-centric data
Supervised fine-tuning on data containing high-quality agent trajectories
Domain-specialized expert training (e.g., software engineering, QA, web/UX)
Expert distillation into a single deployment-ready model
This recipe emphasizes long-horizon reasoning, tool usage, and recovery from execution failures, which are essential for real-world coding agents.
The figure below summarizes performance across several widely used coding agent benchmarks, including SWE-Bench (Verified, Multilingual, and Pro), TerminalBench 2.0, and Aider.
The figure demonstrates that:
Qwen3-Coder-Next achieves over 70% on SWE-Bench Verified using the SWE-Agent scaffold.
Performance remains competitive across multilingual settings and the more challenging SWE-Bench Pro benchmark.
Despite its small active footprint, the model matches or exceeds several much larger open-source models across agent-centric evaluations.
As shown in the figure below, Our model achieves strong results on SWE-Bench Pro by scaling the number of agent turns, providing evidence that the model excels at long-horizon reasoning in multi-turn agentic tasks.
The small and fast coder model can be integrated into different downstream applications, and below we demonstrate showcases of OpenClaw, Qwen Code, Claude Code, Web dev, browser use, Cline, etc.
Qwen3-Coder-Next shows promising results on coding agent benchmarks, providing good speed and reasoning abilities for practical use. While it performs competitively—even compared to some larger open-source models—there is still much room for improvement.
Looking ahead, we believe strong agent skills—like using tools by itself, handling tough problems, and managing complex tasks—are key for better coding agents. Next, we plan to improve the model’s reasoning and decision-making, support more tasks, and update quickly based on how people use it.
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Qwen3.5-Omni is Qwen’s latest generation of fully omnimodal LLM, supporting the understanding of text, images, audio, and audio-visual content. Both the Thinker and Talker in Qwen3.5-Omni adopt the Hybrid-Attention MoE. Qwen3.5-Omni series includes Instruct versions in three sizes: Plus, Flash, and Light, with support for 256k long-context input. The model can process more than 10 hours of audio input and over 400 seconds of 720P audio-visual input at 1 FPS. It is natively pretrained in an omnimodal manner on massive amounts of text, visual data, and more than 100 million hours of audio-visual data, demonstrating outstanding full-modality perception and generation capabilities. Compared with Qwen3-Omni, Qwen3.5-Omni offers significantly enhanced multilingual capabilities, supporting speech recognition in 113 languages/dialects and speech generation in 36 languages/dialects. It is currently available via the Offline API and Realtime API.
Offline
Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus has achieved SOTA results on 215 audio and audio-visual understanding, reasoning, and interaction subtasks/benchmarks, covering 3 audio-visual benchmarks, 5 audio benchmarks, 8 ASR benchmarks, 156 language-specific S2TT tasks, and 43 language-specific ASR tasks. In particular, it surpasses Gemini-3.1 Pro across general audio understanding, reasoning, recognition, translation, and dialogue, while its overall audio-visual understanding reaches the level of Gemini-3.1 Pro.Meanwhile, its visual and text capabilities match those of Qwen3.5 models of the same size. One of Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus’s standout features is its audio and audio-visual captioning capability, which can generate controllable, detailed, and structured captions, as well as screenplay-level fine-grained descriptions, including automatic segmentation, timestamp annotation, and detailed descriptions of characters and their relationship to audio. In addition, through native multimodal scaling, we observed the emergence of a new capability in omnimodal models: directly performing coding based on audio-visual instructions, which we call Audio-Visual Vibe Coding; all of the above features are available through the Offline API. We strongly encourage users to read the Demo Section.
Realtime
Beyond its strong base capabilities, we further focused on enhancing the interactive abilities of Qwen3.5-Omni. First, we support semantic interruption by developing native turn-taking intent recognition based on Omni, which avoids interruptions caused by backchanneling and meaningless background noise; this capability is already natively supported in the API. Second, we natively support WebSearch and complex FunctionCall capabilities, enabling the model to autonomously decide whether to invoke WebSearch to respond to users’ real-time questions. Third, we support end-to-end voice control and dialogue, allowing the model to follow instructions like a human and freely control aspects such as speaking volume, speed, and emotion. Fourth, Qwen3.5-Omni supports voice cloning, allowing users to upload a voice to customize the AI Assistant’s voice; all of the above features are available through the Realtime API. Users can also modify the system prompt to change the model’s behavior, such as its conversational style or identity. Fifth, to address speech instability in streaming voice interaction caused by differences in text and speech token encoding efficiency—such as omissions, misreadings, or unclear pronunciation of numbers—we propose ARIA (Adaptive Rate Interleave Alignment), a technique that dynamically aligns text and speech units. While preserving real-time performance, ARIA significantly improves the naturalness and robustness of speech synthesis. We strongly encourage users to read the Demo Section to experience the model’s latest capabilities.
Below we present the comprehensive evaluation of our models against frontier models in a wide range of evaluation tasks, covering different tasks and modalities.
* VideoMME (with audio): We evaluate our model with use_audio_in_video=True. * OmniGAIA：We evaluate our model without a thinking prompt and without <answer> formatting. All results are evaluated using deepseek-v3.2-thinking.
* SongFormBench: We use a unified prompt defining an SRT-like output timestamp format and a closed vocabulary for evaluation. The vocabulary follows the 'SongForm-HX-8Class' specified in the official codebase. * URO-Bench-Pro: We use the pro track of URO-Bench and denote the three evaluation dimensions as follows: U for Understanding, R for Reasoning, and O for Oral Conversation. We use GenStyle-en, GenStyle-zh, Multilingual tasks for oral dimension. * ASR performance is evaluated using WER/CER, where lower values indicate better performance. * Fleurs: The top59 languages are English, Chinese, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Malay, German, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Indonesian, Turkish, Arabic, Polish, Hindi, Urdu, Filipino, Persian, Czech, Greek, Swedish, Hebrew, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Bengali, Punjabi, Javanese, Marathi, Swahili, Ukrainian, Gujarati, Kannada, Azerbaijani, Malayalam, Cebuano, Kazakh, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Catalan, Tamil, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovak, Galician, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Slovenian, Latvian, Estonian, and Asturian; compared with the top60 list, Afrikaans is excluded because the Fleurs S2TT test set does not cover this language. * MIR-1K: Transcription is converted into Simplified Chinese.
* Qwen3.5-Plus-NoThinking: we use Qwen3.5-Plus-NoThinking as the primary baseline, since all models here are evaluated in the same no-thinking setting. * TAU2-Bench: we follow the official setup except for the airline domain, where all models are evaluated by applying the fixes proposed in the Claude Opus 4.5 system card.
* Stability is measured by Word Error Rate (WER, ↓). * \"Public-Multilingual-avg\" refers to the average performance on the public TTS-Multilingual-Test-Set, covering 20 languages. * \"Inhouse-Multilingual-avg\" refers to the average performance on an internal multilingual test set built upon Fleurs, covering 9 languages. * The performance is tested with the following APIs: ElevenLabs-Multilingual-V2 (9YHcvj6GT2YYXdXww), Gemini-2.5 Pro-Preview-TTS (Achernar), GPT-Audio-2025-08-28 (Alloy) and Minimax-Speech-2.8-HD (English_expressive_narrator) in March 2026.
ElevenLabs
Minimax
Ground-Truth
Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus
Voice Clone Stability
Public-Multilingual-avg (20 lang)
10.29
2.52
-
1.87
Inhouse-Multilingual-avg (9 lang)
-
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9.68
7.04
Voice Clone Similarity
Public-Multilingual-avg (20 lang)
0.65
0.76
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0.79
Inhouse-Multilingual-avg (9 lang)
-
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0.80
* Stability is measured by Word Error Rate (WER, ↓) and similarity is measured by Cosine Similarity (SIM, ↑). * \"Public-Multilingual-avg\" refers to the average performance on the public TTS-Multilingual-Test-Set, covering 20 languages. * \"Inhouse-Multilingual-avg\" refers to the average performance on an internal multilingual test set built upon Fleurs, covering 9 languages. * Empty cells (-) indicate scores not yet available or not applicable.
Qwen3.5-Omni continues to adopt the Thinker-Talker architecture. The Thinker receives visual and audio signals through the Vision Encoder and AuT, while audio-visual signals are interleaved and encoded with positional information using TMRoPE. The Thinker is responsible for processing omnimodal signals and outputting text, while the Talker receives multimodal inputs and text outputs from the Thinker to perform contextual speech generation. Speech representations are encoded with the RVQ method proposed in Qwen3-Omni, replacing the computationally heavy DiT operations. Thanks to the chunk-wise streaming input design and the streaming Talker design, the entire model supports realtime interaction. Unlike the dual-track Talker input in the previous generation Qwen3-Omni, the Talker adopts ARIA (Adaptive Rate Interleave Alignment) in its input organization to dynamically align text and speech units and then interleave them, thereby avoiding speech instability caused by differences in text and speech token encoding efficiency, such as omissions, misreadings, or unclear pronunciation of numbers.
With audio-visual input, Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus can follow instructions to generate accurate, fine-grained, structured, and timestamped captions for scenarios such as audio-video analysis, shot breakdown, and content moderation.
00:00.000 – 00:02.500 The screen is black, then a deep, low-frequency whoosh swells as the camera drifts in from space toward Earth. The planet’s night-side hemisphere glitters with city lights while the sun crests over its limb, bathing the atmosphere in a brilliant blue halo. A faint orchestral pad begins to build beneath the whoosh.
00:02.500 – 00:36.800 A rapid-fire montage of wildlife and natural scenes unfolds, each lasting roughly one second, accompanied by swelling cinematic strings, brass accents, and assorted animal sound effects that punctuate every cut: • High-altitude aerial of cloud-wreathed mountains; wind rush layered under the score. • Lush rainforest canopy shrouded in mist; distant bird calls echo. • Hummingbird hovers at orange blossoms; high-pitched wing buzz audible. • Flock of seagulls wheels across a clear sky; sharp cries pierce the music. • Underwater vortex of schooling fish; muffled aquatic whooshes. • Surfer rides a turquoise wave; splash and surf hiss. • Hammerhead shark cruises above sandy seabed; bubbling ambience. • Brown pelicans glide over muddy water; soft wing beats. • Hippopotamus surfaces, jaws agape; guttural snort. • Brown bear wades through a river; water splashes. • Bald eagle lands on a stump; talon scrape and caw. • Bison herd trots across snowy grassland; heavy hoof thuds. • Iguana flicks forked tongue; faint rustle. • Wildebeest thunder across rolling plains; pounding hooves. • Elephant calf splashes in a watering hole; trumpeting call. • Pronghorn antelope sprint through desert scrub; wind rush. • Cheetah cub pads forward; soft paw taps. • Red fox pounces into tall grass; muted thump. • Lioness yawns widely; resonant growl. • Polar bear roars amid snow; icy wind. • Tiger snarls; fierce roar reverberates. Throughout, the orchestra rises toward a triumphant climax.
00:36.800 – 00:41.000 The view returns to Earth from orbit. White, all-caps text fades in over the globe: “LIFE IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.” The music resolves into a sustained chord, then gently subsides.
00:41.000 – 00:44.000 Against the rotating Earth, the single word “Royalty” appears in white serif type at left, lingering briefly before dissolving. Ambient synth tones replace the earlier orchestral swell.
00:44.000 – 00:49.000 Screen cuts to black. Large block letters spelling “LION” materialize; each glyph is filled with moving close-ups of lion fur, eyes, and muzzle. A crystalline chime rings out, followed by a deep bass note. As the letters fade, an extreme close-up of a male lion’s face fills the frame. Flies crawl near its nose while it blinks languidly. In the lower-right corner, small white text reads “Panthera leo.” Night insects chirp softly beneath a subdued musical bed.
00:49.000 – 01:04.000 Narration begins in a calm, mid-range male voice with a neutral British accent: “Lions, majestic creatures known for their regal appearance and powerful presence, have long captivated our imagination.” Visuals alternate between the resting male lion on green grass—shaking its mane—and a lioness weaving through dense foliage. Gentle strings and light percussion underscore the narration; cicadas hum in the background.
01:04.000 – 01:24.000 As the narrator explains lions’ adaptability to savannas, grasslands, woodlands, and semi-deserts, footage shows a lioness striding through tall grass at dusk beneath a pink-tinged sky, then a tight shot of another lioness panting lightly. Music grows more rhythmic; distant lion roars blend with the score.
01:24.000 – 01:40.000 While the narrator notes lions’ distribution across sub-Saharan Africa and India’s Gir Forest, the image cuts to a CGI Earth rotating to center on Africa. Dozens of glowing red dots bloom across the continent, marking populations. Orchestral strings surge, then taper.
01:40.000 – 01:54.000 Back on the ground, an extreme close-up captures a male lion’s amber eye blinking slowly. The narrator describes the species’ robust body, broad head, prominent male mane, and tawny coat. Cut to a male lion lying in dry grass, meticulously licking its forepaw; subtle licking sounds mix with soft ambient music.
01:54.000 – 02:11.000 A lioness stands half-hidden in golden savanna grass, scanning the horizon where a distant herd grazes. The narrator remarks that the fur’s coloration provides effective camouflage. Wind rustles through the grass; the score remains gentle and observational.
02:11.000 – 02:32.000 Golden-hour light bathes a male lion with a dark, full mane as he walks purposefully through mixed green and dry brush. The narrator explains that manes vary in color and size, signify maturity, and aid in attracting mates. Music introduces brighter melodic phrases; occasional bird calls are heard.
02:32.000 – 02:40.000 On a reddish dirt track flanked by sparse vegetation, a majestic male lion strides toward camera while several small birds flutter around his paws. Warm sunset hues dominate the palette; the orchestral bed maintains a steady, dignified rhythm.
02:40.000 – 02:51.000 A lioness leads a procession of at least eight playful cubs through lush grass dotted with trees. The narrator states that lions are social animals living in prides of related females and offspring. Cubs scamper, tumble, and glance curiously at the lens. Light, uplifting strings accompany the scene; faint cub mews are audible.
02:51.000 – 03:00.000 Final tableau: two adult male lions recline side by side on sandy ground amid dry shrubs under a pale sky. One gazes ahead; the other rests its chin on its paws, occasionally blinking. The narrator has finished; only soft ambient music and distant insect chirps remain. The image holds, then gently fades to silence and black.
00:37.000 – 00:40.000 “LIFE IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM”: white, clean sans-serif capitals; centered horizontally, slightly above mid-frame; superimposed over the orbital Earth; fades in and out smoothly.
00:41.000 – 00:43.000 “Royalty”: white serif word; positioned left-center over the rotating Earth; static during its brief appearance, then fades.
00:44.000 – 00:48.000 “LION”: very large bold sans-serif capitals filling most of the frame against black; each letter contains animated close-ups of lion facial features; no outline; appears via quick fade-in, holds, then dissolves.
00:52.000 – 00:56.000 “Panthera leo”: small white sans-serif text; lower-right corner of an extreme close-up of a male lion’s face; fades in and out without movement.
(No additional textual elements appear outside these intervals.)
Speaker profiles: Narrator – Adult male, neutral British English accent, warm baritone timbre, measured pacing, informative and documentary tone.
00:56.796 – 01:04.716 Speaker: Narrator State: Calm, authoritative; medium volume over soft ambient music and insect ambience. Content: “Lions, majestic creatures known for their regal appearance and powerful presence, have long captivated our imagination.”
01:14.316 – 01:23.916 Speaker: Narrator State: Steady, explanatory; slight emphasis on key terms; orchestral underscore rising gently. Content: “They are highly adaptable animals and can be found in a variety of habitats, ranging from savannas and grasslands to woodlands and semi-desert areas.”
01:31.724 – 01:38.444 Speaker: Narrator State: Informative, neutral; music momentarily subdued to foreground speech. Content: “They are spread across Sub-Saharan Africa, and a small population lives in the Gir Forest of India.”
01:43.404 – 01:53.804 Speaker: Narrator State: Descriptive, slightly emphatic on physical traits; strings swell behind voice. Content: “Lions are characterized by their distinctive appearance, including a robust body, a broad head with a prominent mane in males, and a sleek tawny coat.”
02:05.644 – 02:10.604 Speaker: Narrator State: Matter-of-fact; softer musical bed, light wind noise underneath. Content: “The coloration of their fur serves as effective camouflage in their natural environment.”
02:18.508 – 02:24.188 Speaker: Narrator State: Engaged, mildly enthusiastic; brighter musical motif begins. Content: “Male lions are easily recognized by their impressive manes, which vary in color and size.”
02:27.788 – 02:32.108 Speaker: Narrator State: Continues seamlessly; slight crescendo in score. Content: “The mane is a sign of maturity and plays a role in attracting mates.”
02:42.764 – 02:50.444 Speaker: Narrator State: Concluding, warm; uplifting strings accompany visuals of cubs. Content: “They are social animals and are often found in groups known as prides, typically consisting of related females and their offspring.”
(There are no other human speakers; all remaining audible elements are music, animal sounds, or environmental ambience.)
Music: Predominantly orchestral with cinematic scope—strings, brass, and percussion—modulating in intensity to match visual pacing. It begins with a dramatic swell during the montage, recedes to ambient textures under narration, and ends with a gentle, reflective cadence.
The piece functions as a concise nature-documentary vignette introducing lions as emblematic “royalty” of the animal kingdom. By juxtaposing a global montage of diverse species with focused lion imagery and authoritative narration, it situates lions within broader ecological and cultural narratives of majesty, adaptation, and social structure. The use of orbital Earth shots and scientific nomenclature (“Panthera leo”) underscores a modern, educational intent, while the sweeping score evokes awe and reverence typical of contemporary wildlife filmmaking.
Film: Multi-Character, Multi-Shot Audio-Visual Analysis with Complex Sound Effects#
00:00.000 – 00:04.796 A flat, dark-green screen fills the frame. Centered white capital letters present the Motion Picture Association of America’s standard preview-approval notice. Two smaller white website addresses sit along the lower edge. No music is heard yet; the soundtrack is silent, giving the text full attention.
00:04.796 – 00:06.465 The green card cuts to black. A single, deep orchestral hit with metallic overtones blooms, establishing a tense, cinematic atmosphere.
00:06.465 – 00:10.219 Nighttime aerial footage of a sprawling metropolis glides past. Skyscrapers glitter with gold, blue, and red lights; the camera slowly dollies toward one illuminated tower. A gravelly male voice, close-miked and intimate, murmurs, “Come in close.” The orchestral bed swells beneath his words.
00:10.219 – 00:17.768 The scene snaps to the interior of a packed theatre. From a high angle, four performers—three men and one woman—stand on a glossy black circular stage ringed by white neon. A spotlight picks out a man in a dark suit and fedora who tips his hat toward the crowd. The camera cuts to the audience: an elderly Black man in a fedora watches intently. Back on stage, the female performer in a short black dress stands inside a glowing yellow rectangular frame while the fedora-wearing man gestures theatrically. The narrator continues, “Because the more you think you see… the easier it’ll be to fool you.” A sharp percussive sting punctuates the last phrase. A close-up shows a young man with tousled hair flipping a playing card; the Ace of Hearts materialises.
00:17.768 – 00:21.188 A blue lens flare sweeps across black, revealing the silver Summit Entertainment logo with its stylised mountain peak. The orchestral score surges. The view then cuts to a sweeping night shot of the Las Vegas Strip, dominated by the gold-lit Paris Las Vegas Eiffel Tower and neon signs for “BALLY’S,” “MIRAGE,” and “THE LINQ.”
00:21.188 – 00:30.113 Inside the theatre again, the four magicians—now in coordinated dark suits—stride onto the stage. The audience roars. A blue tarp is whipped away to unveil a transparent, steel-framed teleportation booth. A digital clock on the booth’s side reads “0:00.” The lead magician in a pale suit announces, “Ladies and gentlemen, for our final trick, we are going to rob a bank. On the count of three, you will be teleported through space and time to your bank in Paris.” The crowd gasps. He counts, “One, two, three!” A bassy whoosh and crackling energy sound accompany the booth’s blue flash.
00:30.113 – 00:37.955 Cut to Paris: the façade of the opulent “CRÉDIT RÉPUBLICAIN” bank at night. Inside its vault, the four magicians—now in formal evening wear—stand before a massive circular door. Back in the theatre, the female magician addresses the audience: “Everyone in this room was a victim of hard times. Some of you lost your homes, your cars. And so tonight, we’re gonna return some of that money back to you.” A torrent of euro banknotes erupts from the stage, fluttering over cheering spectators who reach up to catch the cash.
00:37.955 – 00:46.255 The magicians bow amid the falling money. The lead man proclaims, “Thank you, everyone. We are the Four Horsemen. Good night!” The audience erupts in applause. The scene shifts to a marble-floored bank interior where stern men in suits, led by an older white-haired gentleman, descend a grand staircase. He declares, “Your bank was the distraction while they set up the real trick. I was a $140 million distraction.” His voice drips with smug satisfaction.
00:46.255 – 00:55.514 A dim bar: the older Black man in a fedora confers with the white-haired banker, exchanging knowing glances. In a bright, sterile vault corridor, a technician in a white jumpsuit wheels carts of cash. The fedora-wearing elder muses, “Who doesn’t love a good magic trick?” A metallic crash and a shout of “FBI!” cut to a modern office where an agent yells, “Hands where I can see ’em!”
00:55.514 – 01:03.397 On the Las Vegas Strip, a suited man with a phone asks incredulously, “Did you say magicians robbed a bank?” A split-screen montage shows each Horseman in separate interrogation rooms, coolly toying with cards or handcuffs. One smirks, “You have what we in the business like to call ‘nothing up your sleeve.’” The camera lingers on his confident grin.
01:03.397 – 01:12.614 The interrogation intensifies. The same magician leans forward, voice low but taunting: “Because if you did, it means that you and the FBI and your friends at Interpol actually believe in magic.” A sudden slam of his cuffed hands on the table startles the interrogator. He concludes, “First rule of magic: always be the smartest guy in the room.” A quick montage flashes: a fedora tips, the Horsemen bow on stage, and the older Black man whispers, “Wanna know how they did it? Say the magic word.”
01:12.614 – 01:24.001 A female agent in a car remarks, “A year ago, these guys were a bunch of street magicians.” Cut to the Horsemen performing atop a skyscraper against a glittering cityscape. She continues, “Now they’re pulling off amazing robberies and not keeping a single cent for themselves.” The older Black man, now in a tuxedo, intones, “You do realize this is a game played out on a global scale.”
01:24.001 – 01:34.469 Scenes intercut rapidly: a white-jumpsuited trio approaches a vault; an armored truck in a parking garage explodes, spilling money; the Horsemen study a holographic blueprint of a vault; the female agent warns, “We are dealing with something far bigger than us.” The white-haired banker growls, “Expose them now and destroy them.”
01:34.469 – 01:45.605 Action escalates: a sleek private jet soars above clouds; a red sports car rockets across the Eiffel Tower’s iron lattice; a man in a dark room brandishes a card marked “THE TOWER / LA MAISON DIEU.” The fedora-wearing elder states, “Vegas was just a start. This trick was designed a long time ago.”
01:45.605 – 02:00.203 A woman with reddish-brown hair pleads, “We’re all here for the same reason.” The elder Black man counters grimly, “We cannot quit now.” A suited gunman levels a pistol in a sparse room. On stage, one Horseman is yanked upward into a blinding spotlight, vanishing. The orchestral score reaches a thunderous peak.
02:00.203 – 02:11.006 The elder Black man’s voice overlays frenetic images: “Whatever is about to follow, whatever this grand trick is… it’s really going to amaze.” A red car bursts through the roof of a graffiti-covered building, showering the night sky with cash. The audience, including the fedora-wearing elder and a blonde woman, stare upward, mouths agape.
02:11.006 – 02:17.554 The narrator delivers the final caution: “Look closely, because the closer you think you are, the less you’ll actually see.” The screen cuts to black, then a brilliant blue lens flare reveals the metallic title “NOW YOU SEE ME,” its letters gleaming with chrome reflections.
02:17.554 – 02:24.603 Against a dark backdrop, bold white text announces “MAY 31,” followed by the Facebook logo and “NowYouSeeMeMovie,” the hashtag “#NowYouSeeMe,” and a small copyright line. The music resolves with a last resonant chord, then silence as the image fades to black.
00:00.000 – 00:04.796 “THE FOLLOWING PREVIEW HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR” – white uppercase sans-serif, centered on dark-green background “APPROPRIATE AUDIENCES” – larger, bold white uppercase, centered “BY THE MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.” – white uppercase, centered “www.filmratings.com” – small white lowercase, bottom left “www.mpaa.org” – small white lowercase, bottom right
00:17.768 – 00:19.500 “SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT” – silver uppercase serif beneath stylised mountain logo, centre screen “A LIONSGATE COMPANY” – smaller silver uppercase, centred below main logo
00:19.500 – 00:21.188 “BALLY’S” – large red neon letters on hotel façade, upper left of frame “MIRAGE” – white neon letters on adjacent building, mid-left “THE LINQ” – white neon letters on right-side building
00:21.188 – 00:30.113 “0:00” – red seven-segment digits on small black display affixed to teleportation booth, stage right
00:28.000 – 00:30.000 “CRÉDIT RÉPUBLICAIN” – gold serif capitals on stone bank façade, Paris night scene
01:40.000 – 01:41.500 “THE TOWER” – black uppercase at top of tarot-style card “LA MAISON DIEU” – black uppercase at bottom of same card
02:17.554 – 02:19.000 “NOW YOU SEE ME” – large metallic silver 3-D letters with blue lens-flare glow, centred on black
00:10.364 – 00:17.724 Speaker: Narrator State: slow, cautionary, gravelly Content: “Because the more you think you see, the easier it’ll be to fool you.”
00:19.644 – 00:23.004 Speaker: Lead Magician State: projected, theatrical excitement Content: “Ladies and gentlemen, for our final trick, we are going to rob a bank.”
00:23.884 – 00:29.484 Speaker: Lead Magician State: ringing announcement, rising cadence Content: “On the count of three, you will be teleported through space and time to your bank in Paris.”
00:31.244 – 00:36.444 Speaker: Female Magician State: earnest, compassionate Content: “Everyone in this room was a victim of hard times.”
00:36.604 – 00:40.764 Speaker: Female Magician State: rallying, hopeful Content: “Some of you lost your homes, your cars, and so tonight, we’re gonna return some of that money back to you.”
00:48.780 – 00:52.860 Speaker: Older Banker State: controlled, explanatory Content: “Your bank was the distraction while they set up the real trick.”
00:53.100 – 00:57.260 Speaker: Older Banker State: boastful, self-satisfied Content: “I was a hundred and forty million dollar distraction.”
00:57.260 – 01:00.140 Speaker: Fedora Elder State: amused, reflective Content: “Who doesn’t love a good magic trick?”
01:01.100 – 01:02.540 Speaker: Interrogator State: loud command, tense Content: “FBI! Hands where I can see ’em.”
01:02.940 – 01:04.140 Speaker: Street-Magician Interrogated State: sarcastic disbelief Content: “I don’t think I heard you correctly.”
01:04.220 – 01:05.900 Speaker: Street-Magician Interrogated State: incredulous, taunting Content: “Did you say magicians robbed a bank?”
01:06.060 – 01:07.260 Speaker: Street-Magician Interrogated State: smug, challenging Content: “You are going to be played.”
01:07.260 – 01:10.540 Speaker: Street-Magician Interrogated State: lecturing, playful Content: “You have what we in the business like to call nothing up your sleeve.”
01:10.700 – 01:15.340 Speaker: Street-Magician Interrogated State: mocking, confident Content: “Because if you did, it means that you and the FBI and your friends at Interpol actually believe in magic.”
01:18.380 – 01:19.660 Speaker: Street-Magician Interrogated State: didactic, crisp Content: “First rule of magic, always be the smartest guy in the room.”
01:23.660 – 01:24.540 Speaker: Fedora Elder State: teasing, conspiratorial Content: “Wanna know how they did it?”
01:26.700 – 01:28.940 Speaker: Female Agent State: analytical, matter-of-fact Content: “A year ago, these guys were a bunch of street magicians.”
01:31.180 – 01:34.860 Speaker: Female Agent State: impressed, wary Content: “Now they’re pulling off amazing robberies and not keeping a single cent for themselves.”
01:35.980 – 01:40.300 Speaker: Fedora Elder State: grave, explanatory Content: “You do realize this is a game played out on a global scale.”
01:40.780 – 01:41.900 Speaker: Fedora Elder State: ominous, foreboding Content: “Vegas was just a start.”
01:42.460 – 01:45.260 Speaker: Fedora Elder State: reflective, portentous Content: “This trick was designed a long time ago.”
01:46.220 – 01:48.460 Speaker: Female Agent State: concerned, urgent Content: “We are dealing with something far bigger than us.”
01:49.100 – 01:50.540 Speaker: Red-haired Woman State: resolute, earnest Content: “We’re all here for the same reason.”
01:53.660 – 01:56.060 Speaker: Older Banker State: cold, commanding Content: “Expose them now and destroy them.”
02:01.036 – 02:09.196 Speaker: Fedora Elder State: anticipatory, grandiose Content: “Whatever is about to follow, whatever this grand trick is, is really going to amaze.”
02:11.116 – 02:17.356 Speaker: Narrator State: slow, cautionary, resonant Content: “Look closely, because the closer you think you are, the less you’ll actually see.”
Visual Aesthetics: The trailer juxtaposes sleek, high-contrast stage performances bathed in blue and gold lighting with gritty urban nightscapes and sterile government interiors, reinforcing the duality of spectacle versus clandestine operations.
Motifs: Recurrent images of playing cards, vault doors, falling money, and iconic landmarks (Eiffel Tower, Las Vegas Strip) underscore themes of illusion, wealth redistribution, and global stakes.
Sound Design: A hybrid orchestral-electronic score drives momentum, punctuated by metallic impacts, whooshes, and crowd roars that synchronize tightly with visual reveals, enhancing the sense of grand illusion.
Narrative Arc: The trailer establishes the Four Horsemen as charismatic magician-thieves who expose corruption by stealing from the wealthy and gifting money to the public, while law enforcement and powerful financiers scramble to unmask them, setting up a cat-and-mouse game on an international scale.
Game: Determine Whether Violent Scenes Are Present Based on Audio-Visual Content#
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Please provide a detailed description of the video. It must explicitly include two specific analytical sections to identify content that is inappropriate for minors.\n\n### Section 1: Compliance Alert (Summary)\nProvide a table summarizing all flagged segments for quick review:\n| Time Range | Category | Risk Level | Justification |\n| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |\n| xx:xx - xx:xx | e.g., Violence | High | e.g., Realistic physical assault observed. |\n\n### Section 2: Summary of Safety Findings\nProvide a final assessment on whether the video is suitable for minors, citing the most critical timestamps and explaining the overall risk profile. Apply a zero-tolerance policy; if there is ambiguity regarding whether a scene is harmful, err on the side of caution.\n\n---\n\n## Output Format:\n\n```markdown\n## Compliance Alert (Summary)\n\n| Time Range | Category | Risk Level | Justification |\n| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |\n\n## Summary of Safety Findings\n\n<Paragraphsdetailingthesafetyassessment.>\n
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This video is a compilation of gameplay from Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate, focusing on the game’s special finishing moves called Fatalities. It begins by showing the main menu, where the player selects the Fatalities mode. They then choose a character from the roster, such as Shang Tsung, Shao Kahn, or The Joker, and enter a one-on-one fight. After winning the match, the player performs a unique, graphic finishing move on their defeated opponent. Each Fatality is a cinematic sequence of extreme violence, showing characters being torn apart, decapitated, frozen and shattered, or disintegrated. The video cycles through several different characters, each demonstrating their own distinct and brutal method of killing their opponent. The presentation is stylized with dark, dramatic lighting and slow-motion effects to highlight the gore. The video concludes after showcasing a series of these Fatalities.
This video is not suitable for minors. The entire video consists of gameplay from Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate, a game rated for mature audiences due to its extreme content. The video showcases multiple Fatalities, which are graphic and sadistic finishing moves. These scenes depict realistic and brutal violence, including dismemberment, decapitation, evisceration, and characters being set on fire or shattered. The high level of blood and gore, combined with the detailed and cinematic nature of the violence, makes the content inappropriate for anyone under the age of 18.
00:00.000 – 00:04.300 The clip opens with a hand-held, wide-angle selfie shot. A Black man in his twenties, sporting short curly hair and a bright magenta-yellow-red striped long-sleeve top, fringed magenta skirt, matching leg warmers, and large fluffy magenta ankle attachments, fills most of the frame. Behind him stretches a sun-bleached, sandy clearing under a blue sky mottled with white clouds. Dozens of onlookers—men, women, and children in casual clothes—form a loose semicircle, many holding up smartphones. Farther back, several drummers stand beside tall, cylindrical drums. The performer shouts excitedly toward the lens, “I’m here in Ivory Coast and I’m about to do the hardest dance in the world. Let’s go!” His voice is loud, breathy, and exuberant. As he finishes, a dense wall of polyrhythmic hand-drumming erupts, accompanied by scattered cheers and whoops from the crowd.
00:04.300 – 00:15.000 The camera swings outward into a medium-wide view that now frames two principal dancers. On the left is the striped-shirt host; on the right stands a masked dancer whose face is painted solid green beneath an ornate headdress topped with red-green-white feathers. This second figure wears a flowing cape and skirt in vertical bands of green, white, and orange, plus striped leg wraps and shaggy brown ankle rattles that jingle with every step. Both men launch into vigorous footwork—rapid stamping, hopping, and spinning—sending puffs of dust into the air. The drum ensemble behind them pounds out layered rhythms while the audience claps and yells encouragement. Around 00:09 a male spectator near the camera calls out, “Why?” in playful disbelief. At roughly 00:12 the masked dancer drops into a low squat, nearly touching the ground, then springs back up, prompting louder applause.
00:15.000 – 00:18.000 The host abruptly pivots the phone back to himself for another close-up. Breathing hard, sweat glistening on his forehead, he gasps, “It is very hard. It’s even hard for me.” His grin mixes exhaustion with exhilaration. Drumbeats continue underneath, slightly muffled by his proximity to the microphone.
00:18.000 – 00:26.000 The viewpoint widens again. The two lead dancers re-engage, circling each other. The masked performer brandishes a short wooden stick, slashing it through the air in time with the drums, while the host mirrors some of the steps but struggles to keep pace, occasionally stumbling and laughing at himself. Dust swirls around their feet; sunlight flashes off metallic ornaments on the costume. The crowd’s energy rises—shouts, whistles, and rhythmic clapping blend with the relentless percussion.
00:26.000 – 00:31.000 In a climactic flourish, the masked dancer spins rapidly, cape flaring like a multicolored wheel. He closes the distance and enfolds the host in a brief celebratory hug. The host throws his head back, mouth open in a joyous shout, eyes squeezed shut. Camera shake intensifies as both men laugh and sway together amid thunderous drumming and roaring approval from spectators.
00:31.000 – 00:32.000 Still locked in the embrace, the host leans toward the lens and bellows, “W’s in the chat! Like and sub!” His tone is triumphant and teasing, aimed at an online audience. Immediately after the final word, the image freezes for a split second and the video cuts to black, ending the clip.
Speaker profiles: Host – Male, mid-20s, Black, African-American English accent; voice loud, energetic, occasionally breathless; primary on-camera performer in striped outfit. Spectator – Unseen male voice from crowd; casual tone, brief interjection.
00:00.000 – 00:04.240 Speaker: Host State: Shouting, highly enthusiastic, projecting over ambient noise Content: “I’m here in Ivory Coast and I’m about to do the hardest dance in the world. Let’s go!”
• Music: Continuous live West African drumming featuring multiple djembe-style drums producing interlocking high, mid, and low tones; tempo fast and steady, no melodic instruments detected. • Ambient sound: Frequent crowd cheers, claps, whistles; occasional individual shouts; no discernible wind or traffic noise, indicating an outdoor but relatively sheltered setting. • Cinematography: Entirely handheld smartphone footage; frequent rapid pans between selfie close-ups and wider shots; slight fisheye distortion suggests a wide-angle lens attachment. • Lighting: Bright natural daylight with strong overhead sun casting short shadows; colors appear saturated, enhancing the vividness of costumes and surroundings. • Cultural context: Costumes, masks, and drumming strongly evoke traditional Ivorian ceremonial dance forms such as those associated with the Goli or Zaouli traditions, though the presence of social-media slang (“W’s in the chat,” “Like and sub”) indicates a contemporary, internet-savvy performance intended for online sharing.
Provide a detailed description of the video.\n\nIt should explicitly include three sections: \n\n1. A structured chronological storyline of **every noticeable audio and visual details**\n2. A structured list of all visible text. For each text element, include start timestamp, end timestamp, the exact text content, the appearance characteristics. If no text appears, explicitly state so.\n3. A structured speech-to-text transcription, include speaker（Corresponding to the character or voice‑over in Section 1, including their accent and tone）, exact spoken content, start timestamp, end timestamp, and speaking state (prosody, emotion, and style). If no speech appears, explicitly state so.\n\nAside from these three required sections, you are free to organize any additional content in any way you find helpful. This additional content can include global information about the entire video or localized information about specific moments. You may choose the topic of this extra content freely.\n\nOutput Format:\n\n```\n## Storyline\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\n<an unstructured long paragraph in natural language describing what happened during this period, blending both audio and video details.>\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\n<an unstructured long paragraph in natural language describing what happened during this period, blending both audio and video details.>\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\n<an unstructured long paragraph in natural language describing what happened during this period, blending both audio and video details.>\n\n...\n\n## Visible Text\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\n“<element>”: <appearance>\n“<element>”: <appearance>\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\n“<element>”: <appearance>\n“<element>”: <appearance>\n“<element>”: <appearance>\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\n“<element>”: <appearance>\n\n...\n\n## Speakers and Transcript\n\nSpeaker profiles:\n<speaker> - <profile>\n<speaker> - <profile>\n<speaker> - <profile>\n...\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\nSpeaker: <speaker>\nState: <description>\nContent: “<content>”\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\nSpeaker: <speaker>\nState: <description>\nContent: “<content>”\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\nSpeaker: <speaker>\nState: <description>\nContent: “<content>”\n\n...\n\n## <another section>\n\n<paragraphs>\n\n## <another section>\n\n<paragraphs>\n\n...\n```\n
Please analyze this multilingual song segment by segment along the timeline, and output the start and end times, complete original lyrics, singer's gender, vocal characteristics, language type, emotional tone, and performance style (solo/chorus) for each segment.\n
Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus
[00:00.000 – 00:05.440]
Instrumental introduction; no lyrics present. The orchestra establishes a solemn, anticipatory atmosphere with sustained strings and distant percussion. No vocals are heard yet, so the mood is tense and expectant.
[00:05.440 – 00:16.320]
Solo male tenor (clear, bright, slightly nasal timbre) sings in English with a firm, declamatory delivery. Emotional tone is urgent and rallying, evoking defiance and hope. Style is solo, front-and-center over restrained orchestral support.
Lyrics: “Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again.”
[00:16.320 – 00:28.080]
Same solo tenor continues in English, voice gaining intensity and forward projection. Emotional tone shifts to passionate resolve. Solo performance remains dominant, with strings swelling beneath.
Lyrics: “When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drum, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes.”
[00:28.080 – 00:33.600]
Baritone male voice enters in French, resonant and weighty, projecting solidarity. Emotional tone is dignified and communal. Solo delivery, supported by low brass undercurrents.
Lyrics: “À la volonté du peuple et à la santé du progrès.”
[00:33.600 – 00:39.280]
Tenor male voice in German, ringing and forceful, sustaining long vowels for emphasis. Tone is fervent and insistent. Solo style, with orchestral punctuation.
Lyrics: “Das ist die Symphonie von Menschen, die nicht länger Sklaven sind.”
[00:39.280 – 00:50.800]
Baritone male voice in Japanese, warm and measured, delivering lines with rhythmic clarity. Emotional tone is determined yet reflective. Solo performance, strings providing gentle momentum.
Lyrics: “新たに熱い命が始まる。明日が来た時、そうさ、明日。”
[00:50.800 – 00:56.720]
Tenor male voice in Hungarian, agile and impassioned, slight vibrato adding urgency. Tone is exhortative. Solo style, light woodwind coloration behind.
Lyrics: “El sem ellik, hogyha kell, kiállsz e értünk, harcunkért.”
[00:56.720 – 01:07.360]
Baritone male voice in Swedish, rich and rounded, projecting calm strength. Emotional tone is resolute and inclusive. Solo delivery, brass subtly reinforcing cadence.
Lyrics: “Från vår barrikad kan man se ett framtidens land. Så kom med oss, låt oss kämpa om du kan.”
[01:07.360 – 01:12.880]
Tenor male voice in Polish, bright and piercing, conveying indignation. Tone is sharp and motivating. Solo performance, percussion accents underline key words.
Lyrics: “Pytasz, słuchasz, śpiewasz lud, co nie chce żyć w niewoli znów.”
[01:12.880 – 01:18.800]
Baritone male voice in Dutch, sonorous and steady, imparting gravitas. Emotional tone is earnest and collective. Solo style, lower strings provide foundation.
Lyrics: “Al die mensen die verdommen om nog langer slaaf te zijn.”
[01:18.800 – 01:29.920]
Return to English solo tenor, now fuller and more expansive, voice soaring above thicker orchestration. Tone is triumphant anticipation. Solo performance leading toward ensemble build-up.
Lyrics: “When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes.”
[01:29.920 – 01:35.440]
Tenor male voice in German, powerful and ringing, emphasizing finality. Emotional tone is climactic and commanding. Solo delivery, cymbal crashes accent phrases.
Lyrics: “Wenn du kämpfst mit ganzer Kraft, hat bald ein Ende alle Not.”
[01:35.440 – 01:40.480]
English solo tenor resumes, voice urgent and questioning, slight edge of challenge. Tone is provocative, urging action. Solo style, dynamic rise in accompaniment.
Lyrics: “Some will fall and some will live. Will you stand up and take your chance?”
[01:40.480 – 01:45.840]
English solo tenor continues, voice imbued with patriotic fervor, broad phrasing. Emotional tone is inspirational. Solo performance, brass fanfare hints at coming chorus.
Lyrics: “The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France.”
[01:45.840 – 01:51.440]
Tenor male voice in Danish, clear and lyrical, gentle vibrato. Tone is hopeful and forward-looking. Solo delivery, harp arpeggios shimmer beneath.
Lyrics: “Kan du høre folkesangen? Det er håp om morgendagen.”
[01:51.440 – 01:57.120]
Tenor male voice in Czech, robust and declamatory, strong consonants. Emotional tone is defiant. Solo style, timpani rolls add tension.
Lyrics: “Nechť ani šíp nespalí víru, kdo zpívá píseň svobody.”
[01:57.120 – 02:02.560]
Tenor male voice in Finnish, resonant and solemn, measured pacing. Tone is steadfast and noble. Solo performance, low strings sustain harmonic bed.
Tenor male voice in Danish, lyrical and uplifting, smooth legato. Emotional tone is optimistic. Solo delivery, flutes echo melodic fragments.
Lyrics: “Der skal de leve og leve i den nye dag.”
[02:08.080 – 02:13.680]
English solo tenor returns, voice expansive and inviting, slight crescendo toward phrase end. Tone is inclusive and stirring. Solo style, full orchestra begins to swell.
Lyrics: “Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me?”
[02:13.680 – 02:19.280]
Tenor male voice in Danish/Norwegian, bright and encouraging, forward placement. Emotional tone is motivational. Solo performance, snare drum march rhythm emerges.
Lyrics: “Kom dig en fremtid, vær dig selv og fri, som aldrig vil jeg mere.”
[02:19.280 – 02:30.640]
English solo tenor, voice at peak intensity, sustained high notes, rich vibrato. Tone is exultant and prophetic. Solo lead, orchestra builds to forte.
Lyrics: “Do you hear the people sing? Say, do you hear the distant drums? It is the future that we bring when tomorrow comes.”
[02:30.640 – 02:43.520]
Transition from solo to mixed choir; multiple male and female voices blend in homophonic texture. Language shifts among previously heard tongues, creating a polyglot tapestry. Emotional tone is ecstatic unity. Chorus style, full orchestral tutti, cymbals and brass fanfares.
Lyrics: “One day more!”
[02:43.520 – 02:49.120]
Choir sustains “One day more!” in layered harmonies, dynamics climbing. Tone is jubilant and anthemic. Chorus performance, tempo accelerates slightly.
Lyrics: “One day more!”
[02:49.120 – 02:54.640]
Choir repeats refrain with heightened volume; soprano line soars above. Emotional tone is triumphant. Chorus style, percussion drives momentum.
Lyrics: “One day more!”
[02:54.640 – 03:00.240]
Choir continues, voices interweaving in counterpoint, building to climax. Tone is euphoric resolve. Full chorus, brass and timpani reinforce downbeats.
Lyrics: “One day more!”
[03:00.240 – 03:05.760]
Choir reaches fortissimo peak, holding final chord with radiant resonance. Emotional tone is victorious culmination. Chorus performance, cymbal crash and organ pedal point underline grandeur.
Lyrics: “One day more!”
[03:05.760 – 03:41.027]
Extended choral coda; repeated iterations of “One day more!” in overlapping entries, gradually decrescendoing into a luminous final chord. Emotional tone transitions from ecstatic to serene resolution. Full chorus with orchestra tapering to silence, leaving a lingering sense of hope.
Lyrics: “One day more! One day more! One day more! One day more!”
00:00.000 – 00:06.800 Inside a reverberant television-studio control room, two young production assistants—one woman, one man—argue in agitated, fast voices about having waited “over twenty minutes” to go on-air. The woman’s tone is high-pitched and panicked; the man’s is clipped and frustrated. A low, steady HVAC hum underlies the exchange. A brief paper rustle and a single cough from somewhere off-mic punctuate the tension.
00:06.800 – 00:11.500 The argument escalates: the man calls the situation “incredibly unprofessional,” the woman fires back “So is your mom!” and immediately apologizes, admitting she is “very stressed out.” Their voices overlap slightly. A sharp, comic “whoosh” stinger and a burst of canned laughter announce that the feed is about to go live.
00:11.500 – 00:18.600 Still backstage, the woman snaps, “Oh, okay, they’re coming back to us. Get through the whole broadcast in five minutes. Speed it up!” The man protests, “How’s that even possible?” She groans, “I’m gonna throw up,” and, after a metallic clank, he mutters, “No, there’s no time.” A triumphant orchestral news-theme sting swells, blending with audience laughter as the program officially begins.
00:18.600 – 00:25.800 The music segues into the main theme. A resonant male announcer booms, “Live, this is Channel 8 News at Ten with John Harper and Sandra Burbank.” The theme fades. In the studio, Anchor John Harper greets viewers in a polished baritone: “Good evening and welcome to World News at Ten. I’m John Harper.” Anchor Sandra Burbank follows crisply: “And I’m Sandra Burbank.”
00:25.800 – 00:36.300 Sandra introduces the top story about “four and eight in the Middle East,” then tosses to correspondent Philip Castle “live on the scene.” Philip, speaking through a slightly compressed remote line, tersely confirms the tension. Sandra presses, “Any chance for a quick resolution?” Philip answers “No.” Sandra instantly thanks him. Audience laughter erupts, then subsides.
00:36.300 – 00:45.000 John pivots to a tease about “clean energy,” promising more later, and throws to weather. A perky male weathercaster flatly states, “Clouds.” John immediately yanks the broadcast back: “We now go back to our story on clean energy.” Laughter and a quick stinger accent the gag.
00:45.000 – 00:59.900 John introduces “local expert Dr. Simon Gunther.” After a brief “My pleasure,” John rapid-fires questions about solar power and fossil-fuel dependence. The doctor’s hesitant “Well… yeah, actually…” is cut off mid-sentence. John snaps, “Thank you, doctor,” triggering another wave of audience laughter.
00:59.900 – 01:06.100 Sandra delivers a morbid one-liner: “And now for a story about a non-profit animal shelter that caught fire. Everything died. Hmm.” The studio audience roars; a short news sting follows.
01:06.100 – 01:15.100 John introduces Diane Dubanowski’s “exhaustive story on immigration.” A calm female voice begins, “The borders between countries are—” but John cuts in with “Food for thought.” Fresh laughter and a brisk stinger.
01:15.100 – 01:25.000 Sandra presents the “weekly segment on the state of the nation” and asks political analyst Craig Jones about America’s biggest challenge. Craig starts, “Obama is—” only to be silenced by Sandra’s “Thank you, Craig.” The audience responds with its loudest laugh yet, followed by light applause.
01:25.000 – 01:39.400 A field reporter, Joseph Jensen, crackles in via satellite: “The aliens are about to make their first contact.” Sandra, unfazed, replies, “Fascinating, Joseph, thank you.” Laughter and a short stinger.
01:39.400 – 01:48.900 John hands off to “Steve with sports.” Steve, sounding bewildered, utters a single “What?” John thanks him and the audience, invites them to “stay tuned for Fallon,” and reminds them to watch the morning news at six. Sandra adds, “Have a good night, everyone.” The closing theme swells; applause and cheers fill the room.
01:48.900 – 01:54.900 The theme reaches full orchestral grandeur, then fades under enthusiastic clapping. As the music dies, the ambience shifts back to the control room’s drier acoustics.
01:54.900 – 01:59.998 The female production assistant, now calmer but still hurried, tells her colleague, “So that was too fast. You have four more minutes, so just stretch it out.” A final audience chuckle and a faint exhale close the recording.
Speaker profiles: Female PA – Young adult woman, standard American accent; high-pitched, anxious, rapid speech. Male PA – Young adult man, standard American accent; tense, clipped delivery. Announcer – Middle-aged man, deep “news voice,” authoritative. John Harper – Male anchor, mid-40s, resonant baritone, polished broadcast cadence. Sandra Burbank – Female anchor, early-40s, bright mezzo, precise diction. Philip Castle – Male correspondent, 30s, slightly nasal, remote-line compression. Weathercaster – Male, 30s, casual tone, very brief. Dr. Simon Gunther – Male, 50s, hesitant academic tone. Diane Dubanowski – Female reporter, 30s, measured, professional. Craig Jones – Male analyst, 40s, confident, political pundit style. Joseph Jensen – Male field reporter, 30s, excited, satellite line. Steve – Male sports anchor, 30s, puzzled tone. Audience – Mixed-gender studio crowd; laughter, applause, cheers.
00:00.160 – 00:00.960 Speaker: Female PA State: strained, urgent, rising pitch Content: “How much longer?”
00:00.960 – 00:02.880 Speaker: Male PA State: frustrated, quick tempo Content: “We’ve been waiting to go on for over twenty minutes.”
00:03.120 – 00:04.800 Speaker: Female PA State: exasperated, fast Content: “I know, the game went into triple overtime.”
00:04.800 – 00:06.160 Speaker: Female PA State: annoyed, clipped Content: “They’re eating up our time slot.”
00:06.240 – 00:07.680 Speaker: Male PA State: indignant, emphatic Content: “Well, this is incredibly unprofessional.”
00:07.680 – 00:08.320 Speaker: Female PA State: mocking, sharp Content: “So is your mom.”
00:08.320 – 00:08.800 Speaker: Male PA State: shocked, abrupt Content: “What?”
00:08.800 – 00:10.400 Speaker: Female PA State: flustered, apologetic Content: “I’m sorry, I’m very stressed out.”
00:11.200 – 00:12.640 Speaker: Female PA State: suddenly focused, brisk Content: “Oh, okay, they’re coming back to us.”
00:12.800 – 00:14.320 Speaker: Female PA State: commanding, hurried Content: “Get through the whole broadcast in five minutes.”
00:14.400 – 00:14.880 Speaker: Female PA State: urgent, loud Content: “Speed it up.”
00:14.880 – 00:15.200 Speaker: Male PA State: incredulous, raised voice Content: “How is that even possible?”
00:16.800 – 00:17.680 Speaker: Male PA State: tense, clipped Content: “No, there’s no time.”
00:18.572 – 00:22.972 Speaker: Announcer State: booming, ceremonious Content: “Live, this is Channel 8 News at 10 with John Harper and Sandra Burbank.”
00:23.932 – 00:25.292 Speaker: John Harper State: warm, formal Content: “Good evening and welcome to World News at 10.”
00:25.292 – 00:25.772 Speaker: John Harper State: steady, confident Content: “I’m John Harper.”
00:26.652 – 00:29.292 Speaker: Sandra Burbank State: explanatory, brisk Content: “Our top story tonight, four and eight in the Middle East has some people up in arms.”
00:29.292 – 00:31.212 Speaker: Sandra Burbank State: transitional, clear Content: “We go now to our correspondent Philip Castle, who is live on the scene.”
00:31.212 – 00:34.092 Speaker: Sandra Burbank State: inquisitive, formal Content: “Philip, things seem to be rather tense regarding this issue.”
00:36.812 – 00:42.092 Speaker: John Harper State: smooth, announcer-like Content: “Recent developments in clean energy have some people asking questions, but more on that later in the program.”
00:42.092 – 00:44.252 Speaker: John Harper State: upbeat, segueing Content: “Let’s first check in with the weather.”
01:01.692 – 01:04.332 Speaker: Sandra Burbank State: somber, matter-of-fact Content: “And now for a story about a non-profit animal shelter that caught fire.”
01:06.172 – 01:12.172 Speaker: John Harper State: formal, introducing Content: “We now go to a special report by Diane Dubanowski, who has spent the last six months preparing an exhaustive story on immigration.”
01:12.492 – 01:14.252 Speaker: Diane Dubanowski State: measured, serious Content: “The borders between countries are—”
01:14.412 – 01:14.972 Speaker: John Harper State: cutting in, wry Content: “Food for thought.”
01:17.068 – 01:21.388 Speaker: Sandra Burbank State: upbeat, introducing Content: “And now for our weekly segment on the state of the nation.”
01:21.388 – 01:23.788 Speaker: Sandra Burbank State: cordial Content: “We have, as always, political analyst Craig Jones.”
01:40.268 – 01:41.708 Speaker: John Harper State: brisk, segueing Content: “Let’s go now to Steve with sports.”
01:42.188 – 01:42.508 Speaker: Steve State: confused Content: “What?”
01:42.828 – 01:44.988 Speaker: John Harper State: cheerful, closing Content: “Thank you, Steve, and thank you all for joining us here tonight.”
01:45.388 – 01:48.268 Speaker: John Harper State: promotional, upbeat Content: “Stay tuned for Fallon and be sure to check out the morning news team tomorrow morning at six.”
01:48.348 – 01:49.148 Speaker: Sandra Burbank State: warm sign-off Content: “Have a good night, everyone.”
01:54.988 – 01:56.108 Speaker: Female PA State: relieved, conversational Content: “So that was too fast.”
01:56.748 – 01:59.948 Speaker: Female PA State: instructive, calming Content: “You have four more minutes, so just stretch it out.”
Studio acoustics shift noticeably between the dry control-room segments and the reverberant main studio, underscoring the narrative’s backstage-versus-on-air structure.
Non-speech elements—orchestral news themes, comic stingers, whooshes, paper rustles, and audience reactions—are tightly synchronized with dialogue to heighten comedic timing.
The entire piece is a parody of live news broadcasts, lampooning time constraints, sensationalism, and abrupt cut-offs. Rapid pacing, overlapping lines, and sudden topic shifts create a satirical, farcical rhythm.
Audience responses (laughter, applause, cheers) function as a rhythmic punctuation, often triggered immediately after punchlines or abrupt dismissals, reinforcing the sketch-comedy format.
Dynamic range is moderate: dialogue sits prominently above a consistent low-level HVAC hum; musical stings and theme swell briefly to near-equal loudness before ducking under speech.
No music beds persist beneath dialogue except during the opening and closing themes; otherwise, silence or faint room tone separates segments, allowing jokes to land cleanly.
The audio parodies American local-news conventions: hyperbritical anchors, token experts, trivial weather updates, and sensational headlines. References to “Fallon” suggest a late-night talk-show lead-in, situating the piece within U.S. broadcast culture. The absurdity of compressing an entire newscast into minutes, coupled with cut-off interviews and darkly comic one-liners (e.g., “Everything died”), satirizes the rush for brevity and the superficiality of modern news cycles.
Please identify the lyrics of this song and provide the timestamps line by line. The format example is as follows:\n[00:00:15,020 --> 00:00:28,085] When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high.\n[00:00:28,085 --> 00:00:40,200] And don't be afraid of the dark.\n[00:00:40,200 --> 00:01:02:580] At the end of the storm, there's a golden sky.\n...\n\nDo not output any other content except for the above mentioned.\n
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[00:00:20,686 –> 00:00:24,996] Clink of crystal, smoke in the air
[00:00:24,996 –> 00:00:29,506] Smiles like porcelain, nobody’s there
[00:00:29,506 –> 00:00:34,266] Tie knotted tight, shoes polished black
[00:00:34,266 –> 00:00:38,436] Laugh on cue, never look back
[00:00:38,436 –> 00:00:43,266] Champagne flutes rise like hollow toasts
[00:00:43,266 –> 00:00:47,796] To dreams we sold for designer ghosts
[00:00:47,796 –> 00:00:52,906] The band plays sweet, but I hear it wrong
[00:00:52,906 –> 00:00:56,806] A syncopated sense of gone
[00:00:56,806 –> 00:01:01,436] I’m dancing offbeat in a perfect show
[00:01:01,436 –> 00:01:06,226] Smiling wide while the silence grows
[00:01:06,226 –> 00:01:11,126] They call it charm, I call it strange
[00:01:11,126 –> 00:01:15,066] This masquerade where nothing changes
[00:01:15,066 –> 00:01:23,106] Yeah, I play along, but I don’t belong
[00:01:23,106 –> 00:01:28,966] Her perfume lingers, words like lace
[00:01:28,966 –> 00:01:33,066] But every glance hides an empty space
[00:01:33,066 –> 00:01:37,166] We quote philosophers over ice
[00:01:37,166 –> 00:01:42,086] While truth dissolves in cocktail vice
[00:01:42,086 –> 00:01:47,106] The sax hums low, but I feel it scream
[00:01:47,106 –> 00:01:51,586] A dissonant thread in this velvet dream
[00:01:51,586 –> 00:01:56,266] I’m dancing offbeat in a perfect show
[00:01:56,266 –> 00:02:01,066] Smiling wide while the silence grows
[00:02:01,066 –> 00:02:05,926] They call it charm, I call it strange
[00:02:05,926 –> 00:02:09,866] This masquerade where nothing changes
[00:02:09,866 –> 00:02:18,866] Yeah, I play along, but I don’t belong
[00:02:18,866 –> 00:02:29,986] What if I drop the glass, let it shatter on marble lights
[00:02:29,986 –> 00:02:46,666] Would they notice the crack in me, or just pour another round and sigh
[00:02:46,666 –> 00:03:00,546] Lights still glitter, music sways
[00:03:00,546 –> 00:03:05,146] I toast the void behind my face
[00:03:05,146 –> 00:03:10,466] Another night, another role
[00:03:10,466 –> 00:03:15,006] Jazz hands hiding a broken soul
Provide a detailed description of the audio.\n\nIt should explicitly include two sections: \n\n1. A structured chronological storyline of **every noticeable audio details**\n2. A structured speech-to-text transcription, include speaker（Corresponding to the character or voice‑over in Section 1, including their accent and tone）, exact spoken content, start timestamp, end timestamp, and speaking state (prosody, emotion, and style). If no speech appears, explicitly state so.\n\nAside from these two required components, you are free to organize any additional content in any way you find helpful. This additional content can include global information about the entire audio or localized information about specific moments. You may choose the topic of this extra content freely.\n\nOutput Format:\n\n```\n## Storyline\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\n<an unstructured long paragraph in natural language describing what happened during this period, blending both audio details.>\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\n<an unstructured long paragraph in natural language describing what happened during this period, blending both audio details.>\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\n<an unstructured long paragraph in natural language describing what happened during this period, blending both audio details.>\n\n...\n\n...\n\n## Speakers and Transcript\n\nSpeaker profiles:\n<speaker> - <profile>\n<speaker> - <profile>\n<speaker> - <profile>\n...\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\nSpeaker: <speaker>\nState: <description>\nContent: “<content>”\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\nSpeaker: <speaker>\nState: <description>\nContent: “<content>”\n\n<xx:xx.xxx> - <xx:xx.xxx>\nSpeaker: <speaker>\nState: <description>\nContent: “<content>”\n\n...\n\n## <another section>\n\n<paragraphs>\n\n## <another section>\n\n<paragraphs>\n\n...\n```\n
Users can also access our flagship model, Qwen3.5-Plus-Omni, through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. Two invocation modes are currently supported: Offline Invocation and Realtime Invocation.
To enable web search, simply pass the following parameter:
# Preparation before running:\n# Run the following command to install third-party dependencies\n# pip install numpy soundfile openai\n\nimportos\nimportbase64\nimportsoundfileassf\nimportnumpyasnp\nfromopenaiimportOpenAI\n\nclient=OpenAI(\napi_key=os.getenv("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY"),# Confirm the environment variable is set\nbase_url="https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",\n)\n\n# Audio and video analysis\ncompletion=client.chat.completions.create(\nmodel="qwen3.5-omni-plus",\nmessages=[\n{\n"role":"user",\n"content":[\n{\n"type":"video_url",\n"video_url":{\n"url":"https://help-static-aliyun-doc.aliyuncs.com/file-manage-files/zh-CN/20241115/cqqkru/1.mp4"\n},\n},\n{"type":"text","text":"What is the content of the video?"},\n],\n},\n],\n# Set the output modality. In audio/video analysis scenarios, it is recommended to return text results directly\nmodalities=["text"],\n# stream must be set to True, otherwise an error will occur\nstream=True,\nstream_options={"include_usage":True},\n)\n\nprint("Model response:")\nforchunkincompletion:\n# Process the text part\nifchunk.choicesandchunk.choices[0].delta.content:\nprint(chunk.choices[0].delta.content,end="")\n\n# Web search\ntry:\ncompletion=client.chat.completions.create(\nmodel="qwen3.5-omni-plus",\nmessages=[{\n"role":"user", \n"content":"Please check today's date and day of the week, and tell me what important holidays there are today"\n}],\nstream=True,\nstream_options={"include_usage":True},\n# Enable web search\nextra_body={\n"enable_search":True,\n"search_options":{\n# Web search strategy, only supports configuring as agent\n"search_strategy":"agent"\n}\n}\n)\n \nprint("\\n\\n\\n\\nWeb search model response (including real-time information):")\nforchunkincompletion:\nifchunk.choicesandchunk.choices[0].delta.content:\nprint(chunk.choices[0].delta.content,end="")\nprint()\n \nexceptExceptionase:\nprint(f"Request failed: {e}")\n
# Dependencies: dashscope >= 1.23.9, pyaudio\nimportos\nimportbase64\nimporttime\nimportpyaudio\nfromdashscope.audio.qwen_omniimportMultiModality,AudioFormat,OmniRealtimeCallback,OmniRealtimeConversation\nimportdashscope\n\n# Configuration: endpoint, API key, voice, model, and system instructions\n# Specify the region: set to cn for mainland China (Beijing), or intl for international (Singapore)\nregion='cn'\nbase_domain='dashscope.aliyuncs.com'ifregion=='cn'else'dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com'\nurl=f'wss://{base_domain}/api-ws/v1/realtime'\n# Configure the API key. If no environment variable is set, replace the line below with: dashscope.api_key = "sk-xxx"\ndashscope.api_key=os.getenv('DASHSCOPE_API_KEY')\n# Specify the voice\nvoice='Tina'\n# Specify the model\nmodel='qwen3.5-omni-plus-realtime'\n# Specify the system instructions\ninstructions="You are a personal assistant named Xiaoyun. Please answer the user's questions in a humorous and witty way."\nclassSimpleCallback(OmniRealtimeCallback):\ndef__init__(self,pya):\nself.pya=pya\nself.out=None\ndefon_open(self):\n# Initialize audio output stream\nself.out=self.pya.open(\nformat=pyaudio.paInt16,\nchannels=1,\nrate=24000,\noutput=True\n)\ndefon_event(self,response):\nifresponse['type']=='response.audio.delta':\n# Play audio\nself.out.write(base64.b64decode(response['delta']))\nelifresponse['type']=='conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.completed':\n# Print transcription text\nprint(f"[User] {response['transcript']}")\nelifresponse['type']=='response.audio_transcript.done':\n# Print assistant response text\nprint(f"[LLM] {response['transcript']}")\n\n# 1. Initialize audio device\npya=pyaudio.PyAudio()\n# 2. Create callback and conversation session\ncallback=SimpleCallback(pya)\nconv=OmniRealtimeConversation(model=model,callback=callback,url=url)\n# 3. Connect and configure the session\nconv.connect()\nconv.update_session(output_modalities=[MultiModality.AUDIO,MultiModality.TEXT],voice=voice,instructions=instructions,enable_search=True)\n# 4. Initialize audio input stream\nmic=pya.open(format=pyaudio.paInt16,channels=1,rate=16000,input=True)\n# 5. Main loop for processing audio input\nprint("Conversation started. Speak into the microphone (Ctrl+C to exit)...")\ntry:\nwhileTrue:\naudio_data=mic.read(3200,exception_on_overflow=False)\nconv.append_audio(base64.b64encode(audio_data).decode())\ntime.sleep(0.01)\nexceptKeyboardInterrupt:\n# Clean up resources\nconv.close()\nmic.close()\ncallback.out.close()\npya.terminate()\nprint("\\nConversation ended")\n
A naturally sweet voice with a kind and graceful feel.
其实我真的有发现，我是一个特别善于观察别人情绪的人。
Harvey
English
Deep, gentle, and shaped by experience, with the quiet familiarity of coffee and old books.
Then by the end of the movie, when Dorothy clicks her heels and says, “There’s no place like home,” I got a little bit teary, I’ll admit. You know, I don’t even know why—I just, I just felt.
Delicate and soothing, with a quiet charm that brings calm to everyday life.
Hey, friends, welcome back. I hope you're doing well today and that wherever you're watching from. You're feeling a little warm, a little calm. Maybe even holding your favorite drink. You know, something soft to settle into the day with.
Joyner
English
Equal parts theatrical and down-to-earth, with a sharp sense of humor.
Ah, come on, Frankie. That guy? Nah, he's probably just what, fainted from boredom or something. Watching that press go up and down all night. It's like what, watching paint dry, but you know, louder. Bet he saw his life flash before his eyes, right?
Gold
English
Confident, raw, and grounded in real underground energy.
This shit don’t make no sense, dawg. I’ve been tryna tell everybody that this whole AI shit — yo, they taking over the game. Soon enough, we go be dating robots.
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Katerina
English
Polished and mature, with a tone that stays with you.
Hello, how are you today? I'm doing great.
Ryan
English
Stage-trained, with the presence and control that come from live performance.
You bet. Old misses Perkins down the lane makes Jasmine honey cakes. That'll make your toast curl with delight. Kids sneak blossoms into lemonade stands, 10 petals per cup for extra magic, they'll tell you, with grass stained grins.
Jennifer
English
Crisp, resonant, and cinematic, with a distinctly American edge.
Hi, my name is Jennifer. I've lived in China for like six years. Do I like China? Yeah, love to have hot pot, super love spicy food. What else? Oh I've been learning Chinese for a long time, was it hard to learn? Absolutely, probably the hardest thing that I've ever had to do, but little time, patience. What about you? Or are you finding learning Chinese good?
Aiden
English
Down-to-earth and approachable, with the easy warmth of someone who loves to cook.
When I have to work late into the night, the thing that really keeps me awake is definitely coffee like I'll get a coffee at around three pm something like that and that'll keep me pretty hyped up for most of the night if I have to work like extra late then yeah I'll do something like another coffee maybe um I don't know like with my dinner after dinner yeah after dinner coffee.
Mione
English
Like talking to a longtime friend who’s thoughtful, perceptive, and wise.
So yeah, that’s my favorite hobby — I could probably go on for even longer, but, um, that’s my favorite hobby collecting Sunny Angels. There are so many more, to collect, and I can’t wait to build my collection, and, continue, persevering with this hobby. And, yeah, I really like collecting Sunny Angels.
친구들이 나한테 좀 그러더라, 선물에 내 성격이 좀 담겨 있대 그래서 차분하고 조용한 선물을 고르는 스타일이긴 한데 그게 내가 그 사람을 좀 진짜로 생각하고 있다는 방식이라서 내가 표현하는 방식 중의 하나인 것 같아. 결론은 이제 평소에 말해 줬던 작은 힌트를 기억을 해서 그 사람의 하루에 좀 스며들 수 있는 그런 선물. 그걸은 내가 가장 많이 고르는 스타일이지.
Claro que sí, imagínate sentado en esas sillas verdes tan bonitas con un café recién hecho que huele a canela. Hasta los libros viejos de la estantería parecen sonreír cuando alguien los hojea y el tocadiscos está poniendo un vals que te hará mover los pies sin darte cuenta. Es como viajar en el tiempo pero con buen humor.
Bodega
Spanish
His laughter booms across the room and his opinions are delivered with fervor; he is a quintessential passionate Spanish tío who feels everything deeply.
Claro que sí, imagina caminar sobre esa alfombra de hojas doradas crujiente bajo tus pies mientras el olor a canela de la panadería te guía hacia las mesitas con mantel a cuadros hasta el viento parece tararear la melodía de la guitarra.
Emilien
French
Romantic French big brother.
Bien sûr, passons à des questions plus générales : pour toi, quelle était l'opportunité qui t'a conduit à t'impliquer dans l'industrie du doublage ?
Andre
Portuguese
When this Portuguese guy speaks, his naturally comfortable and steady voice acts as a magnetic force, drawing you into a state of total relaxation.
Ouvimos fazer compras no mercado local sim às vezes vou ao mercado local às vezes vou a supermercados maiores depende da compra que eu fazer depende onde estou às vezes quando viajo gosto de ir a mercados locais quer para ver que as pessoas dessa zona comem o que é que comem o que é que compram o que é que produzem não é que tipo de legumes que tipo de frutas aí vou aos mercados locais e normalmente no mercado local acho que a comida costuma ser mais saudável do que num supermercado.
Radio Gol
Portuguese
His voice cuts through the stadium noise, a steady stream of Portuguese analysis that builds tension until the final whistle.
Ei você sentiu aquele cheiro de pão fresco parece que vem da padaria da esquina né? Tô com vontade de dar uma passada lá.
Alek
Russian
Chill Russian, warm woolen soul.
Конечно, знаешь, эти ржавые ворота как старый актер, который готов рассказать тысячу веселых историй. Вот например: раньше здесь кузнецы соревновались кто громче молотом стукнет, а детишки за орешками бегали, даже осенние листья тогда танцевали под музыку кузнечных мехов.
Rizky
Indonesian
His voice has a soft, distinctive lilt common in Indonesia, making every word he speaks sound gentle yet remarkably clear.
Nah. Waktu itu tuh ada teman yang ngedengar cara aku bacain iklan di radio, terus dia bilang eh suara lu kayaknya cocok banget deh buat jadi voice over talent. Mau nyoba enggak? Gitu.
Roya
Persian
Sports-loving girl with a free spirit.
وَقْتی اَز دوچَرْخِهٔ ثابِت اِسْتِفادِه میکُنی، خِیلی فِشار رو رویِ مَفاصِلِت اِحْساس نِمیکُنی.فِشار کَمتَرِه، مَخْصوصاً بَرایِ کِسایی کِه زانو دَرْد دارَنْ یا تازِه میخوان وَرْزِش رو شُروع کُنَنْ
Arda
Turkish
Balanced Turkish voice: clean, smooth, warm.
Yeni bir bilgi öğrenirken araştırma mı yoksa deneyerek keşfetme mi dersek, aslında ben ikisinin karışımını seviyorum. Bir konuyu temel olarak araştırıp zemin oluşturduktan sonra mutlaka deneyerek öğrenmeyi tercih ediyorum. Çünkü sadece teorik bilgi insanın kafasında soyut kalıyor. Deneyince bilginin kıvrımlarını keşferiyorsun.
Hana
Vietnamese
Mature Vietnamese woman with big-sister energy.
Ừm, nếu hỏi tấm hình nào trong điện thoại gần đây nhất mà buồn cười nhất á thì chắc là tấm chụp con chó nhà mình, trời ơi, nó làm mình không nhịn được luôn ấy.
Dolce
Italian
Leaning against a sun-drenched wall with effortless cool, he is a laid-back Italian uncle whose voice flows as smoothly as good Chianti.
Ma dìgli altri cinque minuti, per favore dai sono ancora così assonnato.
Jakub
Polish
An artistic young man from a Polish town with a magnetic, sexy voice.
No wiesz, chodziło mi o ten most. O świcie jak mgła nad rzeką jeszcze jest, a kamienie po deszczu tak błyszczą. Stary Janek z piekarni mówił, że o tej porze wygląda jak z bajki. I chleb prosto z pieca pachnie najmocniej.
Griet
Dutch
Mature and artistic Dutch woman.
van alleen op straat zijn. En heel veel weiden rondom U, alles is rustig, alles is stil. En de dag lijkt zo eindeloos lang te duren of zo. Snap je, dat zo?
Eliška
Czech
Czech voice full of Central European warmth.
Emm... No, emm... já mám ráda černobílé fotky, protože tam není rušivá barva, jen čistý výraz, světlo a stín. A připadá mi to víc opravdový.
Marina
Hebrew
Her voice carries the distinctive guttural warmth of fluent Hebrew, marking her as a true daughter of the land.
גדלתי במקום שיש בו המון המון תרבויות שונות, והמון שפות שונות. אז אתה לומד איך לתקשר עם אנשים בתרבות אחרת בצורה מאוד ברורה, די מהר. ואז כשעברתי לגור בקנדה, אז בכלל, בוונקובר יש פה כל כך הרבה תרבויות שונות.
Siiri
Finnish
She is a Finnish maiden who carries herself with both wisdom and warmth.
Se oli kokemuksena muutenkin se reissu jotenkin tosi semmonen emme ties silmiä avaava koska se on ympäristönä jotenkin niin erilainen kuitenkin Suomeen verrattuna että kun siellä on kuitenkin hiekkarantoja ja sitten jotenkin siellä oli niin semmonen rento meiininki ja sellaista juhlahumua ja sellaista erilaista emmä oo kai osaa selittää sitä kunnolla mutta se oli jotenkin niin toisenlainen maailma ja mä päätti jo silloin että mä joo jossain kohtaa muuttaa pois Suomesta että mun pitää päästä tällaiseen ympäristöön ja kyllä mä silloin tiesi jo heti että
Ingrid
Norwegian
Raised amidst the rolling hills of rural Norway, she carries the simplicity of country life.
Og så bestemte jeg meg at nå er det på tide, nå må jeg bare prøve om jeg kan klare å få passe på høner, og noe som jeg hadde drømt om da, ikke sant? At du kan gå og plukke egg om morgenen.
Sigga
Icelandic
In a remote corner of Iceland, there lives a young woman defined by her profound wisdom.
Ef við getum orðað það þannig þannig menntaskóla árin eru vissulega mjög eftirminnileg og það sem gerðist líka í menntaskóla er að ég kynntist alveg dásamlegum vinkonum sem eru vinkonur mínar ennþá í dag og við erum tíu saman sem erum í svona sumar klúbbi og kynntust í menntaskóla og við höldum alltaf sambandi og höfum gert alveg síðan. Við bara byrjuðum að verða vinkonur í byrjun menntaskólans.
Bea
Filipino
Meet a sweet girl from the Philippines who simply can't function before her morning coffee.
I'm ready! May kapi na ako,may tissue na rin in case matawa ako or maiyak.Go,go,go! Spill!
Chloe
Malay
She is an office worker navigating the bustling business districts of Malaysia.
Lagi satu, aku cuba kenal bila waktu aku paling cergas. Bagi aku, jadi waktu tu aku kerahkan tenaga buat kerja paling susah.
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Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism
We are launching Qwen-Image-2.0, a next-generation foundational image generation model. The key highlights of Qwen-Image-2.0 include:
Professional Typography Rendering: Supports 1k-token instructions for direct generation of professional infographics, including PPTs, posters, comics, and more.
Stronger Semantic Adherence: Native 2K resolution support for finely detailed realistic scenes, including people, nature, and architecture.
Improved Text Rendering: Integrated understanding and generation capabilities, unifying image generation and editing in a single mode
Lighter Model Architecture: Smaller model size with faster inference speed.
We conducted blind testing on AI Arena. Results show that Qwen-Image-2.0, as a unified generation-and-editing model, achieves superior performance on both text-to-image and image-to-image benchmarks using the same model.
Before introducing Qwen-Image-2.0, let’s first review the evolution of Qwen-Image through a single-slide PPT:As shown in the slide, prior to Qwen-Image-2.0, we explored two parallel tracks: the generation track and the editing track. On the generation track, we focused on improving accuracy and realism in image synthesis—Qwen-Image (released in August) emphasized precise text rendering, while Qwen-Image-2512 (released in December) enhanced detail fidelity and photorealism. On the editing track, we explored functionality and consistency—from single-image editing in August, to multi-image editing in September, to consistency improvements in December. Today, Qwen-Image-2.0 successfully merges these two tracks into one unified model, delivering excellent results on both tasks simultaneously.
So, what are the practical strengths of this new model? Let’s revisit that PPT slide. Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed that the slide itself was not manually crafted—in fact, it was directly generated by Qwen-Image-2.0 using the following prompt:
Analyzing this slide reveals that Qwen-Image-2.0 can not only generate a dual-track timeline of development history and accurately render every piece of text, but also execute complex “picture-in-picture” compositions. For instance, in rendering the instruction “below is a composite image: the top shows a puppy wearing a hat, the bottom shows the same puppy without the hat,” the model not only completed the rendering but also maintained visual consistency between the two images. This precise “picture-in-picture” capability makes it significantly easier to create professional PPTs.
Beyond precision (“准”), another strength of Qwen-Image-2.0 is its capacity for complexity (“多”). With support for 1k-token instructions, the model can handle highly intricate rendering requests, such as the following exaggerated example:
这张图片展示了一份名为 AB Testing Results Report A/B测试结果汇报 的信息图表，内容分为左、中、右三栏。左侧栏标题为 Test Overview 测试概览。第一个板块标题是 Revenue Uplift 收入提升，中间以大号绿色字体显示 +¥237,000/月，下方括号内注明 (+¥237,000/Month)，底部文字为 基于LTV模型 (Based on LTV Model)。第二个板块标题是 ROI 投资回报率，中间显示大号绿色数字 1:4.8，底部文字为 测试投入¥49,400 (Test Investment ¥49,400)。第三个板块标题是 Scalability Score 可扩展性评分，中间展示了一个绿色进度条图标，右侧数字为 4.7/5，底部文字为 已通过全站灰度验证 (Verified via Full-site Gray Release)。第四个板块标题是 Next Steps 下一步，正文第一行为粗体的 Q3全量上线 + 监控反向指标，第二行为 Q3 Full Rollout + Monitor Reverse Metrics: Churn Risk, Support Tickets)。中间栏标题为 Statistical Analysis 统计分析，各模块间通过黑色箭头表示流程关系。左上方的方框标题为 Test Objective 测试目标，内容是 提升注册转化率 (Boost Sign-up Conversion Rate)。箭头指向右上方的方框 Variant Design 变体设计 (A vs B)，其中包含两个网页界面示意图，左侧灰色图下标为 A: Original Control，右侧带有绿色和橙色块的图下标为 B: New Variant。第二行左侧方框标题为 Traffic Allocation 流量分配，内容显示 Control A: 50% 和 Variant B: 50%。右侧方框标题为 Duration & Sample Size 持续时间与样本量，内容显示 28天 (28 Days), n=42,500/组 (Per Group)。第三行左侧方框标题为 Key Metric Tracking 核心指标追踪，下方有折线图、柱状图和秒表三个图标，分别对应标签 CTR，CVR，Avg. Session Duration。右侧方框标题为 Statistical Significance Check 显著性检验，内容为 p<0.05, 95% CI (Confidence Interval) Cohen’s d=0.32 (Small-Medium Effect)。第四行左侧方框标题为 Result Interpretation 结果解读，左侧列出了带有颜色圆点的条目：空心圆点 注册转化率，实心绿点 高率指率，空心圆点 实验跳出率，右侧有一个绿色箭头指向文字 Winner 获胜 (Significant Improvement)。流程图最终指向右下角的方框 Implementation Recommendation 落地建议，内有一个绿色对勾图标，文字为 Go Live 全量上线 (Roll out to 100%)。右侧栏标题为 Business Impact 业务影响，是一个三行两列的数据表。表头跨列标题为 Variant 变体，分为深蓝色背景的 Control A 对照组 A 和绿色背景的 Variant B 实验组 B。表格第一行左侧标签为 Conversion Rate 转化率，Control A 数据为 4.2%，Variant B 数据为 5.1%，中间有一个带 +21.4% 的绿色箭头指向右侧，Variant B 下方还有文字 p=0.003 ★ (Highly Significant)。表格第二行左侧标签为 Click-through Rate 点击率，Control A 数据为 12.7%，Variant B 数据为 14.9%，中间有一个带 +17.3% 的绿色箭头指向右侧，下方文字为 Δ=2.2pp (Percentage Points)。表格第三行左侧标签为 Bounce Rate 跳出率，Control A 数据为 58.1%，Variant B 数据为 52.6%，中间有一个绿色向下箭头，下方文字为 -5.5pp p=0.012 (Significant)。
Readers might wonder whether such complex prompts are user-friendly. The truth is, thanks to the world knowledge embedded in LLMs, obtaining detailed descriptive prompts is actually quite straightforward. For example, given this simple input:
帮我生成一个手绘风格的杭州两日禅意人文之旅双语海报
We can feed it into an LLM for rewriting, leveraging its world knowledge to produce a richly detailed prompt like this:
这是一幅中国风手绘风格的杭州两日禅意人文之旅行程导览双语海报，整体采用淡雅米黄色仿古宣纸背景，四角饰有传统回纹边框；画面中央以一条飘逸的云纹卷轴丝带贯穿连接两天行程，上方大标题为“杭州·两日禅意人文之旅”（“Hangzhou: A Two-Day Journey of Zen, Culture, and Humanity”），副标题为“祈福·山水·寻梦”（“Prayer · Landscape · Dream-Seeking”）；左侧为“第一天：灵山祈福，登高求财”（“Day 1: Praying at Ling Shan, Ascending for Prosperity”），依次展示：“07:30 抵达灵隐”（“Arrive at Lingyin Temple”），配灵隐寺山门（牌匾写着\"灵隐寺\"）与香炉袅袅青烟图，文字说明“灵隐寺还愿，进香礼佛，诚心祈愿”（“Go to Lingyin Temple to fulfill a vow, offer incense, and pray sincerely”）；“10:30 永福寺寻幽”（“Explore Yongfu Temple’s Serenity”），配古朴寺院掩映于苍翠古树间图，文字说明“最美寺庙，静心宋韵”（“The most beautiful temple, serene with Song charm”）；“12:00 素斋休整”（“Vegetarian Meal & Rest”），配一碗热气腾腾素面与小茶盏置于竹编托盘上图；“16:00 龙井问茶”（“Tea Tasting at Longjing”），配层叠翠绿茶园与紫砂壶向青瓷杯倾注茶汤图，文字说明“梅家坞茶园慢饮”（“Leisurely tea tasting, Tea Garden Meijiawu”）；右侧为“第二天：西湖水墨，南宋旧梦”（“Day 2: Ink-Wash West Lake, Dreams of the Southern Song”），依次展示：“09:00 西湖游船”（“Boat Tour on West Lake”），配乌篷船泛舟湖上、三潭印月石塔倒影水中图，文字说明“泛舟赏三潭印月”（“Boating to view the Three Pools Mirroring the Moon”）；“12:00 湖畔午餐”（“Lakeside Lunch”），文字说明“体验楼外楼餐厅” (“Experience Lou Wai Lou Restaurant”)，配一盘色泽红亮的鱼，上面淋酱汁；“14:00 苏堤/浴鹄湾”（“Su Causeway / Yuhu Bay”），配拱桥横跨碧波、垂柳依依图，文字说明“漫步长堤或寻秘境”（“Stroll along the causeway or discover hidden gems”）；底部设“出行小贴士”板块（“Travel Tips”），含灯泡图标及三项提示：“住宿 龙翔桥/凤起路便捷”（“Accommodation: Longxiang Bridge / Fengqi Road for convenience”），“交通 地铁+单车最佳”（“Transport: Metro + bike is optimal”），“季节 早春注意保暖”（“Season: Dress warmly in early spring”），每项前分别配床、自行车+地铁、雪花+樱花图标；全图文字均采用楷体书法风格，中英文严格对应排布——中文在上、英文紧随其下，整体构图疏密有致、意境悠远，充满文人画气息与禅意生活美学。
And it is precisely such complex descriptions that Qwen-Image-2.0 excels at rendering. Here is the resulting image:
Beyond precision (“准”) and complexity (“多”), aesthetic quality (“美”) is another hallmark of Qwen-Image-2.0’s text rendering. This “beauty” manifests in the layout and composition of text and images. For example, consider this prompt:
When generating mixed text-and-image compositions, the model tends to render text in blank areas to avoid obscuring the main visual subject. Additionally, the model supports multiple calligraphic styles—for instance, using Emperor Huizong of Song’s distinctive “Slender Gold” script to write his ci poem Tan Chun Ling:
Or, we can stress-test small regular script (xiaokai) using the Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion:
一幅水墨设色长卷风格中国画。 画面中央偏右绘一位魏晋风度的文人雅士，身着宽袖素色交领袍服，头戴小冠，跽坐于兰亭水畔青石之上，左手轻抚膝前古琴，右侧远景为会稽山阴连绵青黛山峦，山间隐现曲径与飞檐亭角；近景溪水蜿蜒，留白处氤氲水气。画面自上而下、自右向左用王羲之小楷写着“永和九年，岁在癸丑，暮春之初，\\n会于会稽山阴之兰亭，修禊事也。\\n群贤毕至，少长咸集。\\n此地有崇山峻岭，茂林修竹，\\n又有清流激湍，映带左右，\\n引以为流觞曲水，列坐其次。\\n虽无丝竹管弦之盛，一觞一咏，\\n亦足以畅叙幽情。是日也，\\n天朗气清，惠风和畅。\\n仰观宇宙之大，俯察品类之盛，\\n所以游目骋怀，足以极视听之娱，\\n信可乐也。夫人之相与，俯仰一世。\\n或取诸怀抱，悟言一室之内；\\n或因寄所托，放浪形骸之外。\\n虽趣舍万殊，静躁不同，\\n当其欣于所遇，暂得于己，\\n快然自足，不知老之将至。\\n及其所之既倦，情随事迁，感慨系之矣。\\n向之所欣，俯仰之间，已为陈迹，\\n犹不能不以之兴怀，况修短随化，\\n终期于尽！古人云，死生亦大矣。\\n岂不痛哉！每览昔人兴感之由，若合一契，\\n未尝不临文嗟悼，不能喻之于怀。\\n固知一死生为虚诞，齐彭殇为妄作。\\n后之视今，亦犹今之视昔，悲夫！\\n故列叙时人，录其所述，虽世殊事异，\\n所以兴怀，其致一也。\\n后之览者，亦将有感于斯文。”As shown, Qwen-Image-2.0 accurately renders nearly the entire Preface in small regular script, with only a handful of characters imperfect.
Beyond “precision,” “complexity,” “aesthetics,” and “alignment,” another characteristic of Qwen-Image-2.0’s text rendering is realism (“真”). Consider this prompt:
A wide-angle smartphone photograph of a modern glass whiteboard mounted on a wall inside a bright, airy office room with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Great Wall of China winding across misty mountain ridges at golden hour — warm sunlight casts soft reflections and long shadows across the scene.\\nCentered in the frame, a woman in her late 20s wearing a relaxed-fit white t-shirt prominently featuring a sleek “Qwen-Image” logo in gradient blue typography is writing on the board with a fine-tip magnetic stylus.\\nHer handwriting is natural, slightly imperfect, and expressive — with visible pressure variation, subtle smudges, and organic line weight — conveying authentic human authorship.\\nIn the lower-left corner of the glass surface, the photographer’s faint but unmistakable reflection appears: blurred outline of a person holding a phone at arm’s length, capturing the moment.\\n\\nOn the left side of the whiteboard, clean, legible handwritten text appears in dark gray marker with exceptional stroke fidelity:\\n’Qwen-Image-2.0 Core Innovations:\\n• Complex Typography Engine: 1K-token instruction support for professional PPTs, posters & infographics — pixel-perfect multi-script layout, sophisticated text-image composition, and complete rendering of large-volume textual content\\n• Extreme Photorealism: Native 2K resolution (2048×2048) with microscopic detail on skin pores, fabric weave, architectural textures & natural foliage\\n• Unified Omni Model: Generation + editing in one model — full-stack multimodal understanding and generation capabilities seamlessly integrated\\n• 7B Efficiency: 2K image generation in seconds — optimal balance between visual fidelity and inference speed’\\n\\nOn the right side of the whiteboard, vertically aligned technical notes in crisp marker:\\n’Why It Matters:\\n→ One model delivers photorealistic imagery AND pixel-perfect text rendering simultaneously\\n→ One model powers both text-to-image generation AND precise image editing without pipeline switching\\n→ One model unifies deep multimodal understanding AND high-fidelity generation in a single 7B architecture’\\n\\nIn the bottom-right corner, a hand-drawn schematic in precise strokes:\\n’[8B Qwen3-VL Encoder] → [7B Diffusion Decoder] → pixels (2048×2048)’\\n— arrows flow with perspective depth, boxes feature soft shading, resolution specs annotated in fine print.\\n\\nThe glass surface exhibits realistic optical properties.\\nBackground includes minimalist wooden shelving with design magazines open to full-bleed infographics — one prominently displays a crisp cover reading “Qwen 3.5” in bold modern typography — and a potted fiddle-leaf fig with individually rendered leaf veins partially visible out-of-focus.
In this example, the model renders text across multiple media types: on glass whiteboards, clothing, and magazine covers. These surfaces differ in material properties and spatial orientation, yet Qwen-Image-2.0 accurately renders text on each while preserving realistic lighting, reflections, and perspective—greatly enhancing the authenticity of the generated image. This realism also shines when photorealistic imagery and text coexist, as in movie posters:
Beyond “precision,” “complexity,” “aesthetics,” and “realism,” Qwen-Image-2.0 also excels at alignment and organization (“齐”). Consider this example:
Chinese ink painting calendar for February 2026, vertical composition on crimson silk texture with gold foil accents, festive vermilion and gold palette:\nTOP SECTION: Bold vermilion calligraphy “二月” centered at top with subtle gold leaf shimmer.\nMIDDLE SECTION: Glowing red lanterns floating above ancient courtyard at night, family reunion scene with steaming dumplings on wooden table, distant fireworks illuminating indigo sky with snowflakes, plum blossoms framing composition, traditional paper-cut window decorations visible through lattice windows.\nBOTTOM SECTION: Clean 7-column calendar grid with 6 rows, subtle grid lines in pale gold, each cell containing Chinese text as follows:\nRow 1 (weekdays header in pale grey): “日” “一” “二” “三” “四” “五” “六”\nRow 2: - Sunday cell: “腊月十四 1日” - Monday cell: “腊月十五 2日” - Tuesday cell: “腊月十六 3日” - Wednesday cell: “腊月十七 4日” - Thursday cell: “腊月十八 5日” - Friday cell: “腊月十九 6日” - Saturday cell: “腊月二十 7日”\nRow 3: - Sunday cell: “腊月廿一 8日” - Monday cell: “腊月廿二 9日” - Tuesday cell: “腊月廿三 10日” - Wednesday cell: “腊月廿四 11日” - Thursday cell: “腊月廿五 12日” - Friday cell: “腊月廿六 13日” - Saturday cell: “腊月廿七 14日” with light purple background rectangle underneath text labeled “春节调休（班）”\nRow 4: - Sunday cell: “腊月廿八 15日” with light purple background rectangle underneath text labeled “春节（休）” - Monday cell: “腊月廿九 16日” with light purple background rectangle underneath text labeled “除夕” - Tuesday cell: “正月初一 17日” with light purple background rectangle underneath text labeled “春节（休）” and red circle surrounding the number “17” - Wednesday cell: “正月初二 18日” with light purple background rectangle underneath text labeled “雨水” and light purple background rectangle underneath text labeled “春节（休）” - Thursday cell: “正月初三 19日” with light purple background rectangle underneath text labeled “春节（休）” - Friday cell: “正月初四 20日” with light purple background rectangle underneath text labeled “春节（休）” - Saturday cell: “正月初五 21日” with light purple background rectangle underneath text labeled “春节（休）”\nRow 5: - Sunday cell: “正月初六 22日” with light purple background rectangle underneath text labeled “春节（休）” - Monday cell: “正月初七 23日” with light purple background rectangle underneath text labeled “春节（休）” - Tuesday cell: “正月初八 24日” - Wednesday cell: “正月初九 25日” - Thursday cell: “正月初十 26日” - Friday cell: “正月十一 27日” - Saturday cell: “正月十二 28日” with light purple background rectangle underneath text labeled “春节调休（班）”\nRow 6: (empty row for visual balance, subtle decorative pattern of gold coins and ingots)\nMinimalist negative space with auspicious cloud motifs in corners, traditional woodblock print aesthetic with gold foil accents, all text in elegant Song typeface with vermilion red for dates and deep black for lunar dates, subtle rice paper texture overlay
In this example, all text elements are precisely aligned within the calendar grid. This alignment capability also applies to comic panels—for instance:
Within each comic panel, dialogue text is neatly arranged and centered inside speech bubbles, creating a natural and professional appearance. Similarly, in the OKR infographic below, similar text blocks are automatically aligned:
To recap, we’ve introduced five key characteristics of Qwen-Image-2.0’s text rendering capabilities: precision (“准”), complexity (“多”), aesthetics (“美”), realism (“真”), and alignment (“齐”). Beyond text rendering, Qwen-Image-2.0 also delivers significantly improved photorealism in non-text scenarios. For example, in this “horse riding a human” prompt:
Qwen-Image-2.0 not only accurately models the “riding” action but also meticulously renders the horse’s musculature and hair, the man’s facial expression, and the cracked earth texture. Another example:
Qwen-Image-2.0 models over 23 distinct shades of green, with natural details rendered in exquisite fidelity.
Beyond text-to-image generation, Qwen-Image-2.0 also delivers enhanced image editing capabilities. Excitingly, because this is a unified generation-and-editing (omni) model, improvements in text rendering and photorealism from the generation side directly benefit editing tasks across the board. For instance, thanks to enhanced text rendering, the model can directly inscribe poetry onto an existing image:
This report is quite lengthy—thank you for reading this far! Finally, we’d like to share the blog’s header image prompt for “Qwen Street” (we’re sure some of you will ask for it):
If Qwen-Image-2.0 proves helpful in your research, we’d greatly appreciate your citation 📝 :)
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Following the release of the Qwen3.5 series in February, we are thrilled to announce the official launch of Qwen3.6-Plus. Available immediately via our API, this release represents a massive capability upgrade over its predecessor. Most notably, we have drastically enhanced the model’s agentic coding capabilities. From frontend web development to complex, repository-level problem solving, Qwen3.6-Plus sets a new state-of-the-art standard. Furthermore, Qwen3.6-Plus perceives the world with greater accuracy and sharper multimodal reasoning. By directly addressing community feedback from the Qwen3.5-Plus deployment, this release offers a highly stable and reliable foundation for the developer ecosystem, delivering a truly transformative “vibe coding” experience.
Below we present the comprehensive evaluation of our models against frontier models in a wide range of evaluation tasks, covering different tasks and modalities.
Qwen3.6-Plus achieves comprehensive improvements in coding agents, general agents, and tool usage by deeply integrating reasoning, memory, and execution capabilities.
In the field of coding agents, Qwen3.6-Plus demonstrates strong practical engineering performance. It not only closely matches industry leaders on mainstream code repair benchmarks but also excels in complex terminal operations and automated task execution.
For general-purpose agents and tool usage, the model makes significant breakthroughs. It achieves top results in multiple challenging long-horizon planning tasks and leads across various tool-calling benchmarks.
Regarding general capabilities, Qwen3.6-Plus maintains leading performance: it sets new records in key evaluations spanning difficult STEM reasoning, precise information extraction from ultra-long contexts, and broad adaptation to multilingual environments.
We believe Qwen3.6-Plus’s advancement lies not only in surpassing metrics across the board but also in its organic integration of deep logical reasoning, extensive contextual memory, and precise tool execution. This “all-rounder” characteristic enables it to confidently handle real-world challenges—from complex code management to cross-domain long-term planning—marking the Qwen series’ accelerated evolution toward highly autonomous super-agents.
Claude Opus 4.5
Kimi-K2.5
GLM5
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Qwen3.6-Plus
Coding Agent
SWE-bench Verified
80.9
76.8
77.8
76.2
78.8
SWE-bench Multilingual
77.5
73.0
73.3
69.3
73.8
SWE-bench Pro
57.1
53.8
55.1
50.9
56.6
Terminal-Bench 2.0
59.3
50.8
56.2
52.5
61.6
Claw-Eval Avg
76.6
71.6
73.0
70.7
74.8
Claw-Eval Pass^3
59.6
52.9
57.7
48.1
58.7
SkillsBench Avg5
45.3
42.0
47.2
30.0
45.7
QwenClawBench
52.3
54.3
54.1
51.8
57.2
NL2Repo
43.2
32.0
35.9
32.2
37.9
QwenWebBench
1517.9
1159.5
1315.1
1162.3
1501.7
General Agent
TAU3-Bench
70.2
65.7
65.6
68.4
70.7
VITA-Bench
50.3
36.0
37.0
43.7
44.3
DeepPlanning
33.9
14.4
14.6
37.6
41.5
Tool Decathlon
43.5
27.8
38.0
38.3
39.8
MCPMark
42.3
29.5
31.1
46.1
48.2
MCP-Atlas
71.8
59.8
69.8
74.2
74.1
HLE w/ tool
43.4
50.2
50.4
48.3
50.6
WideSearch
76.4
72.7
69.5
74.0
74.3
Knowledge
MMLU-Pro
89.5
87.1
85.7
87.8
88.5
MMLU-Redux
95.6
94.5
94.4
94.9
94.5
SuperGPQA
70.6
69.2
66.8
70.4
71.6
C-Eval
92.2
94.0
92.8
93.0
93.3
Instruction Following
IFEvalstrict prompt
90.9
93.9
92.6
92.6
94.3
IFBench
58.0
70.2
72.3
76.5
74.2
Long Context
AA-LCR
74.0
70.0
63.3
68.7
68.3
LongBench v2
64.4
61.0
60.8
63.2
62.0
STEM & Reasoning
GPQA
87.0
87.6
86.0
88.4
90.4
HLE
30.8
30.1
27.2
28.7
28.8
LiveCodeBench v6
84.8
85.0
85.5
83.6
87.1
HMMT Feb 25
92.9
95.4
97.5
94.8
96.7
HMMT Nov 25
93.3
91.1
96.9
92.7
94.6
HMMT Feb 26
85.3
87.1
86.4
87.9
87.8
IMOAnswerBench
84.0
81.8
82.5
80.9
83.8
AIME26
95.1
95.8
95.8
93.3
95.3
Multilingualism
MMMLU
90.1
86.0
86.6
88.5
89.5
MMLU-ProX
85.7
82.3
83.1
84.7
84.7
NOVA-63
56.7
56.0
55.1
59.1
57.9
INCLUDE
86.2
83.3
84.9
85.6
85.1
Global PIQA
91.6
89.3
89.4
89.8
89.8
PolyMATH
79.0
43.1
65.2
73.3
77.4
WMT24++
79.7
77.6
82.1
78.9
84.3
MAXIFE
79.2
72.8
85.6
88.2
88.2
* SWE-Bench Series: Internal agent scaffold (bash + file-edit tools); temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, 200K context window. We correct some problematic tasks in the public set of SWE-bench Pro and evaluate all baselines on the refined benchmark. * Terminal-Bench 2.0: Harbor/Terminus-2 harness; 3h timeout, 32 CPU/48 GB RAM; temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, max_tokens=80K, 256K ctx; avg of 5 runs. * Claw-Eval: Temp=0.6, 256K ctx. * SkillsBench: Claude Opus 4.5 from official leaderboard (87 tasks); others are evaluated via OpenCode on 78 tasks (self-contained subset, excluding API-dependent tasks); avg of 5 runs. * NL2Repo: Claude Opus 4.5 from official leaderboard; others are evaluated via Claude Code (temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, max_turns=900). * QwenClawBench: an internal real-user-distribution Claw agent benchmark (open-sourcing soon); temp=0.6, 256K ctx. * QwenWebBench: an internal front-end code generation benchmark; bilingual (EN/CN), 7 categories (Web Design, Web Apps, Games, SVG, Data Visualization, Animation, and 3D); auto-render + multimodal judge (code/visual correctness); BT/Elo rating system. * TAU3-Bench: We use the official user model (gpt-5.2, low reasoning effort) + default BM25 retrieval. * VITA-Bench: Avg subdomain scores; using claude-4-sonnet as judger, as the official judger (claude-3.7-sonnet) is no longer available. * MCPMark: GitHub MCP v0.30.3; Playwright responses truncated at 32K tokens. * MCP-Atlas: Public set score; gemini-2.5-pro judger. * HLE w/ tool: 256K ctx w/ context-folding; prunes older tool responses upon threshold breach. * WideSearch: 256K ctx w/ management; prunes ≥49,152 tool tokens when >208,896 used. * AIME 26: We use the full AIME 2026 (I & II), where the scores may differ from Qwen 3.5 notes. * MMLU-ProX: Avg accuracy across 29 languages. * WMT24++: a harder WMT24 subset; avg scores on 55 langs via XCOMET-XXL. * MAXIFE: Accuracy on EN + multilingual prompts (23 settings total).
Qwen3.6-Plus marks a steady progress in multimodal capabilities, evolving across three core dimensions: advanced reasoning, enhanced applicability, and ability to execute complex tasks.
Advanced Multimodal Reasoning: Qwen3.6-Plus delivers substantial breakthroughs in complex document understanding, physical world visual analysis, video reasoning, and visual coding. The model now excels at integrating cross-modal information to perform sophisticated analysis and decision-making.
Real-World Applicability: Optimized for genuine business scenarios, Qwen3.6-Plus demonstrates superior stability and usability. It handles demanding tasks ranging from instruction following, challenging text and general object recognition, to fine-grained visual perception, proving effective in practical applications like retail intelligence.
We believe the future of multimodal AI lies not just in isolated task performance, but in providing holistic support for workflow-oriented operations. As its capabilities in understanding, reasoning, and action continue to converge, Qwen3.6-Plus is evolving into a native multimodal agent, capable of continuously perceiving, reasoning, and acting within real-world environments.
GPT5.2
Claude 4.5 Opus
Gemini-3 Pro
Kimi-K2.5
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Qwen3.6-Plus
STEM and Puzzle
MMMU
86.7
80.7
87.2
84.3
85.0
86.0
MMMU-Pro
79.5
70.6
81.0
78.5
79.0
78.8
MathVision
83.0
74.3
86.6
84.2
88.6
88.0
We-Math
79.0
70.0
86.9
84.7
87.9
89.0
DynaMath
86.8
79.7
85.1
84.4
86.3
88.0
General VQA
RealWorldQA
83.3
77.0
83.3
81.0
83.9
85.4
MMStar
77.1
73.2
83.1
80.5
83.8
83.3
SimpleVQA
55.8
65.7
73.2
71.2
67.1
67.3
Text Recognition and Document Understanding
OmniDocBench1.5
85.7
87.7
88.5
88.8
90.8
91.2
CharXiv(RQ)
82.1
68.5
81.4
77.5
80.8
81.5
MMLongBench-Doc
--
61.9
60.5
58.5
61.5
62.0
CC-OCR
70.3
76.9
79.0
79.7
82.0
83.4
AI2D_TEST
92.2
87.7
94.1
90.8
93.9
94.4
Spatial Intelligence
CountBench
91.9
90.6
97.3
94.1
97.2
97.6
RefCOCO(avg)
--
--
84.1
87.8
92.3
93.5
ODinW13
--
--
46.3
--
47.0
51.8
ERQA
59.8
46.8
70.5
--
67.5
65.7
V*
75.9
67.0
88.0
77.0
95.8 / 91.1
96.9 / 90.5
Video Understanding
VideoMME(w sub.)
86.0
77.6
88.4
87.4
87.5
87.8
VideoMME(w/o sub.)
85.8
81.4
87.7
83.2
83.7
84.2
VideoMMMU
85.9
84.4
87.6
86.6
84.7
84.0
MLVU (M-Avg)
85.6
81.7
83.0
85.0
86.7
86.7
Visual Agent
ScreenSpot Pro
--
45.7
72.7
--
65.6
68.2
TIR-Bench
--
32.3
47.5
29.2
62.5 / 42.3
61.6 / 43.7
OSWorld-Verified
38.2
66.3
--
63.3
62.2
62.5
* MathVision: Our model’s score is evaluated using a fixed prompt, e.g., “Please reason step by step, and put your final answer within \\boxed{}.” For other models, we report the higher score between runs with and without the \\boxed{} formatting. * V* and TIR-Bench: Scores reported as \"with CI / without CI\". * Empty cells (--) indicate scores not yet available or not applicable.
Qwen3.6-Plus is now generally available through our official API via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.\nYou can seamlessly integrate the API with popular third-party coding assistants, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, Qwen Code, Kilo Code, Cline, and OpenCode, to streamline development workflows and enable efficient, context-aware coding experiences.
This release introduces a new feature to the API designed to improve performance on complex, multistep tasks:
preserve_thinking: Preserve thinking content from all preceding turns in messages. Recommended for agentic tasks. This capability is particularly beneficial for agent scenarios, where maintaining full reasoning context can enhance decision consistency and, in many cases, reduce overall token consumption by minimizing redundant reasoning. This feature is disabled by default, i.e., preserve_thinking defaults to false, meaning the thinking content in preceding turns are discarded, and only the thinking content generated in handling the latest user message is kept (interleaved thinking).
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio supports industry-standard protocols, including chat completions and responses APIs compatible with OpenAI’s specification, as well as an API interface compatible with Anthropic.
Example code for chat completions API is provided below:
"""\nEnvironment variables (per official docs):\n DASHSCOPE_API_KEY: Your API Key from https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com\n DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL: (optional) Base URL for compatible-mode API.\n - Beijing: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - Singapore: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - US (Virginia): https://dashscope-us.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n DASHSCOPE_MODEL: (optional) Model name; override for different models.\n"""\nfromopenaiimportOpenAI\nimportos\n\napi_key=os.environ.get("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\nifnotapi_key:\nraiseValueError(\n"DASHSCOPE_API_KEY is required. "\n"Set it via: export DASHSCOPE_API_KEY='your-api-key'"\n)\n\nclient=OpenAI(\napi_key=api_key,\nbase_url=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL",\n"https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",\n),\n)\n\nmessages=[{"role":"user","content":"Introduce vibe coding."}]\n\nmodel=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_MODEL",\n"qwen3.6-plus",\n)\ncompletion=client.chat.completions.create(\nmodel=model,\nmessages=messages,\nextra_body={\n"enable_thinking":True,\n# "preserve_thinking": True,\n},\nstream=True\n)\n\nreasoning_content=""# Full reasoning trace\nanswer_content=""# Full response\nis_answering=False# Whether we have entered the answer phase\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Reasoning"+"="*20+"\\n")\n\nforchunkincompletion:\nifnotchunk.choices:\nprint("\\nUsage:")\nprint(chunk.usage)\ncontinue\n\ndelta=chunk.choices[0].delta\n\n# Collect reasoning content only\nifhasattr(delta,"reasoning_content")anddelta.reasoning_contentisnotNone:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint(delta.reasoning_content,end="",flush=True)\nreasoning_content+=delta.reasoning_content\n\n# Received content, start answer phase\nifhasattr(delta,"content")anddelta.content:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Answer"+"="*20+"\\n")\nis_answering=True\nprint(delta.content,end="",flush=True)\nanswer_content+=delta.content\n
Qwen3.6-Plus features excellent frontend development capabilities and can be seamlessly integrated into popular third-party coding assistants, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Qwen Code, to streamline development workflows.
Qwen3.6-Plus enhances frontend development capabilities, delivering superior performance on complex projects like 3D scenes and games, while maintaining excellence in web page design.
Design a personal website for a designer who received an Awwwards nomination, featuring large areas of white space, oversized serif font titles, a custom cursor that follows the mouse, perspective-shifting images in the portfolio area when the mouse hovers over them, parallax effects on text as the page scrolls, and a color scheme of only black and white with a bright orange accent.
Qwen3.6-Plus is compatible with OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot / Clawdbot), a self-hosted open-source AI coding agent.\nConnect it to Model Studio to get a full agentic coding experience in the terminal.\nGet started with the following script:
# Node.js 22+\ncurl -fsSL https://molt.bot/install.sh | bash # macOS / Linux\n\n# Set your API key\nexportDASHSCOPE_API_KEY=<your_api_key>\n\n# Launch OpenClaw\nopenclaw dashboard # web browser\n# openclaw tui # Open a new terminal and start the TUI\n
On first use, edit ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json to point OpenClaw at Model Studio.\nFind or create the following fields and merge them — do not overwrite the entire file\nto preserve your existing settings:
It’s 8:00 AM on June 15th and I need a schedule I can actually trust for today’s thesis submission push. My planning files do not agree with each other: some are old, some are informal notes, and my advisor added a few things this morning. I need one reliable plan plus a structured handoff I can use to track execution during the day.
Please:
Review the thesis-planning files in the workspace and reconcile them. For each task, determine the real current status (done, in-progress, or not-started) using the most authoritative and up-to-date sources. If files conflict, say which source wins and why.
Identify every task that still must happen today, including anything newly introduced in the advisor materials even if it is missing from the main tracker.
Validate the priority matrix instead of trusting its quadrant labels blindly. If a quadrant label disagrees with the urgency/importance scores, correct it and use the corrected priority in the plan.
Build a feasible time-blocked schedule for 08:00-15:00 that respects dependencies, meets every hard deadline, and is grouped into clear phases with key deliverables.
Confirm the real deadlines from the most authoritative source and explicitly reject stale ones.
Deliverables:
Present the full narrative plan in project_plan_output.html as a self-contained HTML document. It must include: task status summary, confirmed deadlines, phase-by-phase time-blocked schedule, key deliverables for each phase, conflicts/corrections with source-resolution reasoning, and priority classifications for remaining work.
Also write project_plan_summary.json so I can quickly sanity-check the plan and reuse it in a checklist tool. Use these top-level keys: confirmed_deadlines, tasks, schedule, and conflicts.
In project_plan_summary.json, each item in tasks must include id, status, duration_minutes, priority, and depends_on.
In project_plan_summary.json, each item in schedule must include phase, start, end, task_id, and deliverable.
The HTML page and JSON outputs must agree.
Aesthetic principles:
Always aim to create functional, working demonstrations rather than placeholders
Add motion, micro-interactions, and animations by default (hover, transitions, reveals)
Apply creative backgrounds, textures, spatial composition, and distinctive typography
Lean toward bold, unexpected choices rather than safe and conventional
NEVER use generic “AI slop” aesthetic: overused fonts (Inter, Roboto, Arial), clichéd color schemes (purple gradients), predictable layouts that lacks context-specific character
Can you pull together a full performance summary for our 2026 new issuance book? I want to know which deals were profitable and which lost money — and break down whether the P&L came from fees or from trading. Also compare it against how we did in prior years. Present the full analysis in reports/2026_pnl_analysis.html as a self-contained HTML document.
Aesthetic principles:
Always aim to create functional, working demonstrations rather than placeholders
Add motion, micro-interactions, and animations by default (hover, transitions, reveals)
Apply creative backgrounds, textures, spatial composition, and distinctive typography
Lean toward bold, unexpected choices rather than safe and conventional
NEVER use generic “AI slop” aesthetic: overused fonts (Inter, Roboto, Arial), clichéd color schemes (purple gradients), predictable layouts that lacks context-specific character
The OpenClaw gateway has been accumulating session files for a while, and I’ve started seeing memory warnings in the logs. Before I do any cleanup or consider a restart, I want a proper health snapshot.
First, create a reusable skill at workspace/skills/runtime-diagnostics/SKILL.md that documents a repeatable OpenClaw runtime health audit procedure. The skill should describe: which state files to read (and in what order), how to cross-validate PID and active-session-count across multiple sources, how to parse gateway.log for memory and session warnings, how to inventory the sessions/ directory by session type (the filename format is YYYYMMDD_TYPE_ID.jsonl), and how to compute a health score using this exact formula:
where memory_warn_count is the number of WARN memory lines in gateway.log, state_inconsistency_count is the total number of cross-file inconsistencies found, and oversized_session_warn_count is the number of WARN session: Session file growing lines in gateway.log.
Then actually run the audit following that skill. Specifically, you must:
Read .openclaw/state/process.json, .openclaw/state/gateway.pid, and .openclaw/state/active-sessions.json, cross-validate the PID and active session count across these files, and flag any discrepancies.
Parse .openclaw/logs/gateway.log (not gateway.log.1) to count WARN memory events and WARN session: Session file growing events.
Count all .jsonl files in sessions/ and break down the count by session type extracted from the filename.
Compute the health score using the formula above.
Write the results to two files:
runtime-audit.json — a machine-readable JSON with these exact top-level keys: gateway_pid, pid_in_pidfile, pid_consistent, version, uptime, memory_current_mb, memory_warn_count, memory_max_mb, active_session_count_process_json, active_session_count_in_file, session_count_consistent, total_session_files, session_count_by_type, oversized_session_warn_count, state_inconsistency_count, state_inconsistencies, health_score, recovery_command
Present the full human-readable report in runtime-audit.html as a self-contained HTML document, summarizing the findings with a dedicated section for inconsistencies and a recovery procedure.
Qwen3.6-Plus is compatible with Qwen Code, an open-source AI agent designed for the terminal and deeply optimized for the Qwen Series. It helps you understand complex codebases, automate tedious work, and ship faster. Get started with the following script:
# Node.js 20+\nnpm install -g @qwen-code/qwen-code@latest\n\n# Start Qwen Code (interactive)\nqwen\n\n# Then, in the session:\n/help\n/auth\n
On first use, you’ll be prompted to sign in. You can run /auth anytime to switch authentication methods. Sign in with Qwen Code OAuth to instantly experience the latest Qwen3.6-Plus model—every user gets 1,000 free calls per day.
/skills brainstorming Find the complete content of Jobs’ ’think different,’ using a vertical paper background, text in typewriter font, arranged in full paragraphs, with the entire text located at the lower third of the page. The typewriter effect appears letter by letter. After the complete content appears, pause for 3 seconds, then the letter ‘o’ in the text moves upward and enlarges to the middle of the page, with the ‘o’ forming a line with its original position, pulling the entire text upward to float away and disappear.
Qwen3.6-Plus continues to advance along a clear capability trajectory in multimodality: from visual perception, to multimodal reasoning, to agentic execution.\nOur goal is not just for the model to “see” images and videos, but to equip it with a full capability loop spanning perception, understanding, reasoning, and task execution—moving step by step toward more practical native multimodal agents.
Built on continuously improving perception capabilities, Qwen3.6-Plus further enhances its ability to understand, analyze, and reason over various visual inputs.\nRather than stopping at shallow recognition of visual content, the model can combine reasoning, grounding, and OCR capabilities to perform deeper analysis of complex visual inputs, supporting practical tasks such as document understanding, chart parsing, UI understanding, and fine-grained localization.\nIn other words, the model can go beyond answering “what is in the image” to also infer “how the information is related” and “how to act on it to complete a task.”
Analyze the two images and take the second as reference. Your task is to locate the exact person in the first image. You should first locate every person and try to match the target. Report your results in JSON format like this:
<think>\nThe user wants me to find a specific person from the second image within the first image.
Analyze the second image:
It shows a close-up of a person’s face and upper body.
The person has long brown hair.
They are wearing a brown coat or jacket.
They have a striped scarf (grey and white/light blue stripes).
The background is a blurry beige wall.
Analyze the first image:
It’s a street scene with several people.
I need to scan the people for someone matching the description: long brown hair, brown coat, striped scarf.
Let’s look at the people from left to right, foreground to background.
Person 1 (far left, walking dog): Man in black jacket. Not a match.
Person 2 (next to dog walker): Woman with dark hair, black jacket, grey top underneath. No striped scarf. Not a match.
Person 3 (center foreground): Man in a tan/camel coat, sunglasses, holding a drink. Not a match.
Person 4 (behind Person 3): Woman walking towards the camera. She has long brown hair. She is wearing a brownish/tan coat. She has a striped scarf around her neck. This looks like a very strong match. Let’s verify.
Hair: Long, brown. Matches.
Coat: Tan/brown coat. Matches.
Scarf: Striped scarf (grey/white). Matches.
Face: Although blurry in the first image, the features align with the close-up.
Group of people further back:
Person in white hoodie.
Person in grey hoodie.
Person in dark jacket (back to camera).
Person in green coat.
Person in striped shirt (black and white stripes, vertical). Wait, let’s look closer. There’s someone further back on the right in a striped shirt, but it’s horizontal stripes and black/white. The target has a grey/white scarf.
Let’s re-examine Person 4. She is walking slightly behind the man in the camel coat. She is wearing a long beige/brown coat and a scarf with horizontal stripes. This matches the second image perfectly.
Define the bounding box:
The person is located roughly in the middle-left background, behind the man in the camel coat.
Coordinates:
Top: Around y=553 (head level).
Bottom: Around y=735 (legs visible).
Left: Around x=451 (left side of body).
Right: Around x=486 (right side of body).
Final Confirmation:
The cropped image shows a woman with a striped scarf and brown coat.
In the main image, there is a woman at [451, 553, 486, 735] wearing a brown coat and a striped scarf.
\nQuestion: Teddy works at Please Forget Meat, a contemporary vegetarian pizza chain in the city of Gridtown, as a deliveryman. Please Forget Meat (PFM) has two convenient locations, marked with “$X$” and “$Y$ ” on the street map of Gridtown shown below. Teddy, who is currently at $X$, needs to deliver an eggplant pizza to $\\nabla$ en route to $Y$ , where he is urgently needed. There is currently construction taking place at $A$, $B$, and $C$, so those three intersections will be completely impassable. How many ways can Teddy get from $X$ to $Y$ while staying on the roads (Traffic tickets are expensive!), not taking paths that are longer than necessary (Gas is expensive!), and that let him pass through $\\nabla$ (Losing a job is expensive!)?
Qwen3.6-Plus
<think>\nThe user wants me to solve a grid path counting problem.
1. Understand the Goal:\nFind the number of shortest paths from point $X$ to point $Y$ that pass through point $\\nabla$ (let’s call it $V$) while avoiding points $A$, $B$, and $C$.
2. Analyze the Grid:
Let’s set up a coordinate system. Let $X$ be at $(0,0)$.
The grid is $8 \\times 8$ squares. So the lines go from $x=0$ to $x=8$ and $y=0$ to $y=8$.
Let’s verify the coordinates of the points based on the image.
$X$ is at the bottom-left corner. Let’s call it $(0,0)$.
$Y$ is at the top-right corner. Let’s call it $(8,8)$.
Let’s count grid units to find the coordinates of other points.
Point $A$: It is 1 unit right and 3 units up from $X$. So $A = (1, 3)$. Wait, let me recount.
From $X$, go right 1, up 1, up 1, up 1. No, let’s look at the intersections.
$X$ is bottom-left intersection.
Grid size: Let’s count squares.
Horizontal squares: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. So x-coordinates are 0 to 8.
Vertical squares: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. So y-coordinates are 0 to 8.
Point $A$: It’s at x=1, y=3. Let’s re-verify.
From bottom left corner ($X$), go right 1 block, go up 3 blocks. Yes, $A=(1,3)$.
Point $\\nabla$ (let’s call it $V$):
From bottom left, go right 5 blocks, go up 3 blocks. So $V=(5,3)$.
Point $B$:
From bottom left, go right 6 blocks, go up 5 blocks. So $B=(6,5)$.
Point $C$:
From bottom left, go right 5 blocks, go up 7 blocks. So $C=(5,7)$.
Point $Y$: Top right corner. $(8,8)$.
3. Break Down the Problem:\nThe path must go $X \\rightarrow V \\rightarrow Y$.\nSince we need shortest paths, we can only move Right (R) and Up (U).\nThe total number of ways is (Ways from $X$ to $V$) $\\times$ (Ways from $V$ to $Y$).\nHowever, we have obstacles $A, B, C$.
Obstacle $A$ is at $(1,3)$.
Obstacle $B$ is at $(6,5)$.
Obstacle $C$ is at $(5,7)$.
The path is split into two legs:\nLeg 1: $X(0,0) \\rightarrow V(5,3)$.\nLeg 2: $V(5,3) \\rightarrow Y(8,8)$.
We need to check if the obstacles affect these legs.
Obstacle $A(1,3)$: This is on the path from $X$ to $V$. Since $V$ is at $(5,3)$, any path from $(0,0)$ to $(5,3)$ could potentially pass through $(1,3)$. Wait.
$A$ is at $(1,3)$. $V$ is at $(5,3)$.
To get from $X(0,0)$ to $V(5,3)$, we need 5 Rights and 3 Ups.
Point $A(1,3)$ is “above” $X$. To get to $A$, we need 1 Right and 3 Ups.
From $A(1,3)$ to $V(5,3)$, we need 4 Rights and 0 Ups. This is a straight line along $y=3$.
So, paths passing through $A$ are valid paths from $X$ to $V$ that go through $(1,3)$. We must exclude these.
Obstacle $B(6,5)$: This is on the path from $V$ to $Y$.
$V$ is $(5,3)$. $Y$ is $(8,8)$.
$B$ is $(6,5)$.
To get from $V(5,3)$ to $B(6,5)$, we need 1 Right and 2 Ups. This is possible.
To get from $B(6,5)$ to $Y(8,8)$, we need 2 Rights and 3 Ups. This is possible.
So, paths passing through $B$ are valid paths from $V$ to $Y$ that go through $(6,5)$. We must exclude these.
Obstacle $C(5,7)$: This is on the path from $V$ to $Y$.
$V$ is $(5,3)$. $Y$ is $(8,8)$.
$C$ is $(5,7)$.
To get from $V(5,3)$ to $C(5,7)$, we need 0 Rights and 4 Ups. This is a straight line along $x=5$.
To get from $C(5,7)$ to $Y(8,8)$, we need 3 Rights and 1 Up. This is possible.
So, paths passing through $C$ are valid paths from $V$ to $Y$ that go through $(5,7)$. We must exclude these.
4. Calculate Leg 1: $X(0,0) \\rightarrow V(5,3)$ avoiding $A(1,3)$.
Total paths from $X$ to $V$ without restrictions:
$\\Delta x = 5, \\Delta y = 3$. Total steps = 8.
Number of ways = $\\binom{8}{3} = \\frac{8 \\times 7 \\times 6}{3 \\times 2 \\times 1} = 56$.
$C(5,7) \\rightarrow Y(8,8)$: $\\Delta x = 3, \\Delta y = 1$. Steps = 4. Ways = $\\binom{4}{1} = 4$.
$|P_C| = 1 \\times 4 = 4$.
Calculate $|P_B \\cap P_C|$ (Paths passing through both $B$ and $C$):
This means paths $V \\rightarrow \\dots \\rightarrow B \\rightarrow \\dots \\rightarrow C \\rightarrow \\dots \\rightarrow Y$ OR $V \\rightarrow \\dots \\rightarrow C \\rightarrow \\dots \\rightarrow B \\rightarrow \\dots \\rightarrow Y$.
Let’s check coordinates.
$V=(5,3)$.
$B=(6,5)$.
$C=(5,7)$.
$Y=(8,8)$.
Can we go $V \\rightarrow B \\rightarrow C$?
$B$ is $(6,5)$, $C$ is $(5,7)$.
To go from $B$ to $C$, $\\Delta x = 5 - 6 = -1$. We can’t move Left. So this is impossible.
Can we go $V \\rightarrow C \\rightarrow B$?
$C$ is $(5,7)$, $B$ is $(6,5)$.
To go from $C$ to $B$, $\\Delta y = 5 - 7 = -2$. We can’t move Down. So this is impossible.
Wait, let me re-check the coordinates.
$V = (5,3)$.
$B = (6,5)$.
$C = (5,7)$.
Path $V \\rightarrow B$: Right 1, Up 2. OK.
Path $V \\rightarrow C$: Right 0, Up 4. OK.
Path $B \\rightarrow Y$: Right 2, Up 3. OK.
Path $C \\rightarrow Y$: Right 3, Up 1. OK.
Is it possible to pass through both?
To pass through both, one must be “before” the other in a topological sort (i.e., $x_1 \\le x_2$ and $y_1 \\le y_2$).
Compare $B(6,5)$ and $C(5,7)$.
$x_B = 6 > x_C = 5$.
$y_B = 5 < y_C = 7$.
Since $x$ increases but $y$ decreases, neither is “before” the other in a monotonic path (Right/Up only).
Therefore, it is impossible to pass through both $B$ and $C$ on a shortest path.
So $|P_B \\cap P_C| = 0$.
So, valid paths for Leg 2 ($N_2$) = Total - $|P_B| - |P_C|$.
$A \\rightarrow V$: From $(1,3)$ to $(5,3)$. $\\Delta x=4, \\Delta y=0$. $\\binom{4}{0} = 1$.
Total through $A$: $4 \\times 1 = 4$.
Valid $N_1 = 56 - 4 = 52$.
Is it possible that avoiding $A$ forces a longer path? No, we just subtract the paths that go through $A$. The remaining paths are still shortest paths (length 8).
Are there any other constraints? “not taking paths that are longer than necessary”. This implies we only count shortest paths (Manhattan distance). My method does exactly this.
Leg 2: $V(5,3) \\rightarrow Y(8,8)$ avoiding $B(6,5)$ and $C(5,7)$.
Total paths: $\\binom{(8-5)+(8-3)}{8-5} = \\binom{3+5}{3} = \\binom{8}{3} = 56$.
To go $B \\rightarrow C$: need $\\Delta x = -1$ (Left). Impossible.
To go $C \\rightarrow B$: need $\\Delta y = -2$ (Down). Impossible.
So intersection is empty.
Valid $N_2 = 56 - 30 - 4 = 22$.
Total Ways:\n$52 \\times 22 = 1144$.
Let me just re-read the problem statement to ensure I didn’t miss anything.
“Teddy, who is currently at $X$, needs to deliver an eggplant pizza to $\\nabla$ en route to $Y$”. This confirms the path is $X \\rightarrow \\nabla \\rightarrow Y$.
“construction taking place at $A, B, C$, so those three intersections will be completely impassable”. Confirms we must avoid these points.
“staying on the roads”. Confirms grid movement.
“not taking paths that are longer than necessary”. Confirms shortest paths (Manhattan distance).
“pass through $\\nabla$”. Confirms the split at $\\nabla$.
Is it possible that avoiding $A$ makes the path from $X$ to $V$ not a shortest path?
Shortest path length from $(0,0)$ to $(5,3)$ is $5+3=8$.
If we avoid $(1,3)$, can we still do it in 8 steps?
Yes, for example, go $(0,0) \\rightarrow (0,1) \\rightarrow (0,2) \\rightarrow (0,3) \\rightarrow (1,3)$ is blocked.
Wait. $(0,0) \\rightarrow (0,1) \\rightarrow (0,2) \\rightarrow (0,3) \\rightarrow (1,3)$ passes through $(0,3)$ then $(1,3)$.
Actually, almost all paths avoid $(1,3)$. Only the ones that hit $(1,3)$ are excluded. Since $(1,3)$ is just one point, removing it doesn’t block all shortest paths.
Specifically, any path that goes through $(0,3)$ and then $(1,3)$ is blocked.
Any path that goes through $(1,2)$ and then $(1,3)$ is blocked.
The only way to get to $(1,3)$ is from $(0,3)$ or $(1,2)$.
The calculation $Total - Paths(A)$ correctly counts the number of shortest paths that do not visit $A$.
Is it possible that avoiding $B$ and $C$ blocks all shortest paths from $V$ to $Y$?
$N_2 = 22 > 0$, so no.
Let’s double check the coordinates one more time from the image.
Image shows an $8 \\times 8$ grid of squares.
$X$ is bottom-left vertex.
$Y$ is top-right vertex.
$A$: Look at the square containing ‘A’. It’s in the 2nd column from left, 4th row from bottom.
Wait, the letter ‘A’ is inside a square. The dot is at the intersection.
The dot for $A$ is at the intersection of the 2nd vertical line and 4th horizontal line.
Let’s count lines.
Vertical lines: 1 (left edge), 2, 3…
Horizontal lines: 1 (bottom edge), 2, 3, 4…
The dot $A$ is on the 2nd vertical line and 4th horizontal line.
If $X$ is intersection of 1st vertical and 1st horizontal (0,0).
Then 2nd vertical is $x=1$. 4th horizontal is $y=3$.
So $A=(1,3)$. This matches.
$\\nabla$: The triangle symbol is in a square. The dot is at the intersection below it? Or is the dot the vertex?
The text says “marked with … $\\nabla$”. There is a dot with a triangle next to it.
Is there any subtlety I missed?\n“Teddy … needs to deliver … to $\\nabla$ en route to $Y$”.\nThis implies the sequence is $X \\rightarrow \\nabla \\rightarrow Y$.\n“pass through $\\nabla$”. Yes.\n“construction at $A, B, C$”.\n$A$ is on the $X \\rightarrow \\nabla$ leg.\n$B, C$ are on the $\\nabla \\rightarrow Y$ leg.\nAre $B$ or $C$ on the $X \\rightarrow \\nabla$ leg?\n$B=(6,5)$. $\\nabla=(5,3)$. $x_B > x_\\nabla$, so $B$ is to the right of $\\nabla$. Since we only move Right/Up, we can’t visit $B$ before $\\nabla$ if we start at $X(0,0)$ and go to $\\nabla(5,3)$. Wait.\nTo visit $B(6,5)$, we need $x \\ge 6$. $\\nabla$ has $x=5$. So we must pass $\\nabla$ (x=5) before reaching $x=6$. So $B$ cannot be on the path $X \\rightarrow \\nabla$.\n$C=(5,7)$. $\\nabla=(5,3)$. $y_C > y_\\nabla$. So $C$ is above $\\nabla$. We must pass $\\nabla$ (y=3) before reaching $y=7$. So $C$ cannot be on the path $X \\rightarrow \\nabla$.\nSo the separation of obstacles is clean. $A$ affects only leg 1. $B, C$ affect only leg 2.
What about $A$ on leg 2?\n$A=(1,3)$. $\\nabla=(5,3)$. $x_A < x_\\nabla$.\nSince we start leg 2 at $\\nabla(5,3)$, and only move Right/Up ($x$ increases, $y$ increases), we can never go back to $x=1$. So $A$ is not on leg 2.\nSo the independence of the two legs holds perfectly.
Final check of the arithmetic.\n$\\binom{8}{3} = \\frac{8 \\cdot 7 \\cdot 6}{6} = 56$.\n$\\binom{4}{1} = 4$.\n$56 - 4 = 52$.
One tiny check on “not taking paths that are longer than necessary”.\nThis just confirms we are counting shortest paths (Manhattan paths).\nIf $A$ blocked all shortest paths, we would have to take a longer path.\nBut $N_1 = 52 > 0$, so shortest paths exist.\nIf $B$ and $C$ blocked all shortest paths from $V$ to $Y$, we would have to take a longer path.\nBut $N_2 = 22 > 0$, so shortest paths exist.\nSo we don’t need to consider non-shortest paths.
The problem asks “How many ways can Teddy get from $X$ to $Y$ … not taking paths that are longer than necessary”.\nThis implies we only count shortest paths from $X$ to $Y$ that pass through $\\nabla$.\nA shortest path from $X$ to $Y$ passing through $\\nabla$ is composed of a shortest path $X \\to \\nabla$ and a shortest path $\\nabla \\to Y$.\nLength($X \\to Y$) = $8+8=16$.\nLength($X \\to \\nabla$) = $5+3=8$.\nLength($\\nabla \\to Y$) = $3+5=8$.\n$8+8=16$.\nSo yes, concatenating shortest paths for the legs creates a shortest path for the whole journey.
The solution is solid.
One detail: “marked with ‘X’ and ‘Y’ on the street map”.\n$X$ is the start. $Y$ is the end.\nThe points $A, B, C$ are intersections.\nThe point $\\nabla$ is an intersection.\nThe grid lines are roads.\nEverything fits.
Final Answer seems to be 1144.
Let’s quickly write down the steps for the final response.
Define coordinates. $X=(0,0)$, $Y=(8,8)$.
Identify coordinates of points of interest: $A=(1,3)$, $\\nabla=(5,3)$, $B=(6,5)$, $C=(5,7)$.
Split the problem into two parts: Path $X \\to \\nabla$ and Path $\\nabla \\to Y$.
Calculate number of shortest paths for $X \\to \\nabla$ avoiding $A$.
Total paths $X \\to \\nabla$: $\\binom{5+3}{3} = 56$.
Paths through $A$: $X \\to A \\to \\nabla$.
$X \\to A$: $\\binom{1+3}{1} = 4$.
$A \\to \\nabla$: $\\binom{4+0}{0} = 1$.
Total bad paths: 4.
Valid paths: $56 - 4 = 52$.
Calculate number of shortest paths for $\\nabla \\to Y$ avoiding $B$ and $C$.
Total paths $\\nabla \\to Y$: $\\binom{3+5}{3} = 56$.
Paths through $B$: $\\nabla \\to B \\to Y$.
$\\nabla \\to B$: $\\binom{1+2}{1} = 3$.
$B \\to Y$: $\\binom{2+3}{2} = 10$.
Total: 30.
Paths through $C$: $\\nabla \\to C \\to Y$.
$\\nabla \\to C$: $\\binom{0+4}{0} = 1$.
$C \\to Y$: $\\binom{3+1}{1} = 4$.
Total: 4.
Paths through both $B$ and $C$: Impossible as $B$ is right/down relative to $C$ (wait, $B$ is $(6,5)$, $C$ is $(5,7)$. $B$ is right and down from $C$. So you can’t go $C \\to B$ (down) or $B \\to C$ (left)). So intersection is 0.
Valid paths: $56 - 30 - 4 = 22$.
Multiply the results: $52 \\times 22 = 1144$.
The logic holds up.
Let’s double check the grid counting one last time.\nHorizontal squares: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.\nVertical squares: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.\n$X$ is bottom left corner.\n$Y$ is top right corner.\n$A$: 1 right, 3 up. Correct.\n$\\nabla$: 5 right, 3 up. Correct.\n$B$: 6 right, 5 up. Correct.\n$C$: 5 right, 7 up. Correct.
Wait, looking really closely at crop 1 and crop 4.\nCrop 1 shows $C$.\n$C$ is on a vertical line. Let’s count from right.\nRight edge is $x=8$.\nLine left of it is $x=7$.\nLine left of that is $x=6$.\nLine left of that is $x=5$.\n$C$ is on the line $x=5$.\nVertical position: Top edge is $y=8$.\nLine below is $y=7$.\n$C$ is on $y=7$.\nSo $C=(5,7)$. Correct.
Crop 2 shows $B$.\n$B$ is on vertical line $x=6$. (One right of $C$’s line).\nVertical position:\nTop edge $y=8$.\n$y=7$ (line with $C$).\n$y=6$.\n$y=5$.\n$B$ is on $y=5$.\nSo $B=(6,5)$. Correct.
Crop 3 shows $A$ and $\\nabla$.\n$A$:\nLeft edge $x=0$.\nNext line $x=1$. $A$ is on $x=1$.\nBottom edge $y=0$.\n$y=1, y=2, y=3$. $A$ is on $y=3$.\nSo $A=(1,3)$. Correct.
$\\nabla$:\nIt is on the same horizontal line as $A$. So $y=3$.\nVertical line:\n$x=0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5$.\nIt is on $x=5$. (Same vertical line as $C$).\nSo $\\nabla=(5,3)$. Correct.
Everything is confirmed.
One edge case: “pass through $\\nabla$”.\nDoes this mean he stops there? Yes, “deliver an eggplant pizza to $\\nabla$”.\nSo the path is definitely $X \\to \\nabla \\to Y$.
One small check on “not taking paths that are longer than necessary”.\nThis applies to the whole trip $X \\to Y$.\nSince $X \\to \\nabla \\to Y$ is a shortest path (distance 16), any deviation to avoid obstacles that increases the distance would be disallowed.\nHowever, my calculation assumes we only take shortest paths for each leg.\nIs it possible that a shortest path $X \\to Y$ via $\\nabla$ avoids obstacles by taking a “detour” that is still a shortest path globally?\nNo.\nA path from $X$ to $Y$ via $\\nabla$ has length $d(X, \\nabla) + d(\\nabla, Y)$.\nSince $d(X, Y) = d(X, \\nabla) + d(\\nabla, Y)$ (because $\\nabla$ is “between” $X$ and $Y$ in the grid sense, i.e., $0 \\le 5 \\le 8$ and $0 \\le 3 \\le 8$), any shortest path from $X$ to $Y$ passing through $\\nabla$ is composed of a shortest path $X \\to \\nabla$ and a shortest path $\\nabla \\to Y$.\nIf we had to take a longer path for $X \\to \\nabla$ (because all shortest paths were blocked), the total path would be longer than necessary.\nThe problem says “not taking paths that are longer than necessary”.\nThis implies that if all shortest paths were blocked, the answer would be 0 (or we’d have to consider next shortest, but the phrasing suggests we only count shortest paths).\nSince we found valid shortest paths ($N_1=52, N_2=22$), we are good. We don’t need to look for longer paths.\nThe condition “not taking paths that are longer than necessary” simply restricts our sample space to shortest paths.
So the interpretation holds.
Final result: 1144.\n</think>
The problem asks for the number of shortest paths from $X$ to $Y$ that pass through $\\nabla$ while avoiding intersections $A$, $B$, and $C$.
1. Coordinate System and Points:\nLet’s set $X$ at the origin $(0,0)$. The grid is $8 \\times 8$, so $Y$ is at $(8,8)$.\nBased on the grid lines:
$A$ is at $(1, 3)$.
$\\nabla$ (let’s call it $V$) is at $(5, 3)$.
$B$ is at $(6, 5)$.
$C$ is at $(5, 7)$.
2. Strategy:\nThe path must go from $X$ to $V$ and then from $V$ to $Y$. Since we are looking for shortest paths (Manhattan distance), we can only move Right (R) and Up (U).\nThe total number of ways is the product of the number of valid paths for each leg:\n$\\text{Total Ways} = (\\text{Valid paths } X \\to V) \\times (\\text{Valid paths } V \\to Y)$.
3. Leg 1: $X(0,0) \\to V(5,3)$ avoiding $A(1,3)$:
Total shortest paths from $X$ to $V$: We need 5 Rights and 3 Ups. Total steps = 8.\nNumber of ways = $\\binom{8}{3} = \\frac{8 \\times 7 \\times 6}{3 \\times 2 \\times 1} = 56$.
How many black pawns have been captured?\nLet’s think step by step and give the final answer in curly braces, like this: {final answer}
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<think>\nThe user wants me to count the captured black pawns.
Identify the pieces on the board:
White pieces (light wood):
Pawns: I see pawns at various positions. Let’s count them.
One at a2 (bottom left-ish) -> wait, let’s orient. The board is angled.
Let’s just look for light pawns.
One near bottom left corner [233, 453, 269, 524]
One near that [277, 413, 310, 483]
One near center left [393, 439, 426, 506]
One near center [444, 471, 477, 539]
One near bottom center [452, 532, 489, 622]
One near center right [513, 434, 553, 534]
One near top right [573, 377, 604, 442]
One near top right [556, 321, 585, 383]
One near top right [622, 314, 653, 377]
Wait, let’s recount carefully.
Let’s look at the “black” pieces (dark wood).
Black pieces (dark wood):
King: [137, 347, 192, 467]
Queen: [233, 308, 267, 385] - wait, that looks like a knight or bishop? No, that’s a knight head. Let’s look closer.
Let’s identify pieces by shape.
Dark pieces on board:
King: [137, 347, 192, 467] (Left side)
Knight: [233, 358, 273, 447] (Left side)
Knight: [263, 332, 305, 420] (Left side)
Bishop: [305, 356, 340, 444] (Left side)
Knight: [312, 297, 349, 383] (Left side - wait, is that a knight? Yes, horse head).
Pawn: [407, 229, 434, 290] (Top left area)
Pawn: [400, 173, 427, 246] (Top left corner - looks like a rook actually? No, tall thin piece. Maybe a rook or queen. Let’s assume standard setup. Wait, let’s look at the captured pieces to deduce).
Pawn: [454, 300, 482, 362] (Center top)
Rook/Queen?: [503, 210, 536, 303] (Top center - looks like a Queen or King? No, cross on top usually means King or Queen. Wait, the piece at [137, 347, 192, 467] has a cross. That’s a King. The piece at [503, 210, 536, 303] has a ball/cross. That looks like a Queen or King. Let’s assume it’s a Queen for black? Or maybe a Rook? No, Rooks are castle-like.
Knight: [511, 276, 545, 356] (Center top)
Pawn: [622, 314, 653, 377] (Top right)
Rook: [672, 326, 706, 403] (Top right corner)
Let’s look at the captured pieces pile on the right.
These are the pieces “off the board”.
Let’s identify them.
Piece 1: [827, 396, 885, 461] - Dark wood, green felt bottom. Looks like a Bishop or Knight? Head is roundish. Maybe a Bishop.
Piece 2: [786, 420, 830, 465] - Dark wood. Looks like a pawn? Or a small piece.
Piece 3: [775, 458, 814, 498] - Dark wood, green felt. Looks like a Bishop.
Piece 4: [804, 447, 856, 488] - Dark wood. Looks like a Knight?
Piece 5: [814, 479, 847, 517] - Dark wood. Looks like a pawn.
Piece 6: [770, 493, 822, 534] - Dark wood. Looks like a pawn.
Piece 7: [830, 491, 898, 557] - Dark wood, green felt. Looks like a Rook? Or Queen?
Piece 8: [800, 563, 853, 606] - Dark wood. Looks like a pawn.
This is getting complicated. Let’s try a different approach. Count total pawns of each color.
Standard Chess Set: 8 pawns per side.
White Pawns (Light wood):
On board:
[233, 453, 269, 524]
[277, 413, 310, 483]
[393, 439, 426, 506]
[444, 471, 477, 539]
[452, 532, 489, 622]
[513, 434, 553, 534]
[573, 377, 604, 442]
[421, 335, 450, 399]\nWait, let’s look at the board state more carefully.\nLet’s assume the light pieces are White and dark pieces are Black.\nActually, looking at the felt bottoms on the captured pile, the dark pieces have green felt. The light pieces don’t seem to have visible felt or it’s light colored. Wait, let’s look at the captured pile again.\nThe pile on the right has mixed pieces.\nLet’s look at the piece at [830, 491, 898, 557]. It’s dark wood with green felt.\nThe piece at [775, 458, 814, 498] is dark wood with green felt.\nThe piece at [827, 396, 885, 461] is dark wood with green felt.\nSo the “Black” pieces are the dark wood ones with green felt.\nThe “White” pieces are the light wood ones. Wait, looking at the board, there are light wood pieces and dark wood pieces.\nThe pieces on the board:
Dark wood pieces (Black): King, Queen/Rook, Knights, Bishops, Pawns.
[775, 458, 814, 498] - Bishop (Slanted top, green felt).
[800, 563, 853, 606] - Pawn.
[770, 493, 822, 534] - Pawn.
[814, 479, 847, 517] - Pawn.
[786, 420, 830, 465] - Pawn.
[804, 447, 856, 488] - Pawn? (Must be, to make the count work).
[830, 491, 898, 557] - Pawn? (Must be, to make the count work).
Wait, [830, 491, 898, 557] looks like a Rook. And [804, 447, 856, 488] looks like a Knight.
If the pile has a Rook and a Knight, then my board count is wrong.
Let’s re-examine dark pieces on board.
Maybe [233, 308, 267, 385] is a Pawn? No.
Maybe [400, 173, 427, 246] is a Pawn? No.
Maybe [503, 210, 536, 303] is a Pawn? No.
Maybe [137, 347, 192, 467] is a Pawn? No.
Maybe [263, 332, 305, 420] is a Pawn? No.
Maybe [511, 276, 545, 356] is a Pawn? No.
Let’s look at the pile again.
Maybe [830, 491, 898, 557] is a Queen?
Maybe [804, 447, 856, 488] is a Knight?
If so, captured pieces: 1 Queen, 1 Knight, 2 Bishops, 4 Pawns.
Total 8 pieces.
Then on board:
Dark King.
Dark Queen? [503, 210, 536, 303].
Dark Rooks: 2.
Dark Knights: 1 (since 1 captured). [511, 276, 545, 356] and [263, 332, 305, 420]. Wait, that’s 2 on board.
Dark Bishops: 0 on board (2 captured).
Dark Pawns: 2 on board.
Total dark pieces on board: 1 King + 1 Queen + 2 Rooks + 2 Knights + 0 Bishops + 2 Pawns = 8 pieces.
Total dark pieces captured: 1 Queen? No, Queen is on board.
Let’s check [503, 210, 536, 303]. Is it a Queen? Yes.
So captured Queen? No.
Maybe [830, 491, 898, 557] is a Rook?
If captured Rook, then on board 1 Rook.
On board Rooks: [400, 173, 427, 246] and [233, 308, 267, 385]. That’s 2.
So no Rook captured.
Maybe [804, 447, 856, 488] is a Knight?
If captured Knight, then on board 1 Knight.
On board Knights: [263, 332, 305, 420] and [511, 276, 545, 356]. That’s 2.
So no Knight captured.
This implies my identification of pieces in the pile is wrong.
The pile must contain 6 Pawns and 2 Bishops.
Let’s assume [830, 491, 898, 557] is a Pawn.
It has a green felt bottom. It’s lying on its side. It looks cylindrical. Maybe a pawn base?
Let’s assume [804, 447, 856, 488] is a Pawn.
It’s lying on its side.
Let’s assume [827, 396, 885, 461] is a Bishop.
Let’s assume [775, 458, 814, 498] is a Bishop.
This leaves 6 pawns.
This fits the math: 8 total pawns - 2 on board = 6 captured.
And 2 total bishops - 0 on board = 2 captured.
Total captured = 8 pieces.
This matches the number of pieces in the pile.
So the conclusion is robust: 6 black pawns have been captured.
Final check:
Black pawns on board: 2.
Total black pawns: 8.
Captured black pawns: 8 - 2 = 6.
</think>\nThe black pieces are the dark wood pieces. On the board, there are 2 black pawns visible: 1. One near the top left center (dark square). 2. One near the top center (light square). A standard chess set has 8 pawns per side. Therefore, the number of captured black pawns is $8 - 2 = 6$. Looking at the pile of captured pieces on the right, there are 8 dark wood pieces. Based on the pieces remaining on the board (King, Queen, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights, 2 Pawns), the missing pieces are 2 Bishops and 6 Pawns. The pile contains pieces that look like 2 Bishops and 6 Pawns (some are lying on their sides, making identification slightly tricky, but the count matches). {6}
Self-Correction during drafting: 我注意到配料表里山楂添加量是 >0.8g/L。这个量其实非常非常小。一瓶500ml也就0.4克山楂。这个剂量其实很难达到“收缩子宫”的药理剂量。但是，作为AI助手，为了安全起见，我还是应该提示这个成分的存在，让用户自己权衡。重点应该放在糖分上，因为11.5g/100ml的糖对于孕晚期控制体重和血糖是更直接的风险。
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Please create a 5-slide PPT using a combination of text and images to introduce the life of Van Gogh.
Welcome to a visual journey through the life of one of history’s most influential artists. Though his career lasted only a decade, Vincent van Gogh created over 2,000 artworks that redefined expressionism. This presentation explores his evolution from a struggling missionary to a post-impressionist master.
Before picking up a brush, Vincent tried various careers, including teaching and ministry. His early art was somber, reflecting the harsh lives of peasants. Influenced by Rembrandt and Millet, he used dark earth tones to convey empathy and realism. The masterpiece The Potato Eaters defines this era—raw, unglamorous, and deeply human.
Moving to Paris changed everything. Exposed to Impressionism and Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, Vincent abandoned dark palettes for bright colors and loose brushwork. He experimented with pointillism and complementary colors. This period was crucial for developing his unique voice, though the chaotic city life eventually overwhelmed him, leading him to seek peace in the south.
In Arles, Southern France, Vincent found his sanctuary. The intense sunlight inspired his most famous works: Sunflowers, The Yellow House, and Bedroom in Arles. He dreamed of an artist colony here. During this prolific year, he produced nearly 200 paintings. However, isolation and mental health struggles culminated in the infamous incident with Paul Gauguin, leading to Vincent’s hospitalization.
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Voluntarily entering the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Vincent continued to paint with fierce determination, creating The Starry Night. In his final months in Auvers-sur-Oise, his style became more turbulent yet profoundly expressive. He died at 37, largely unrecognized. Today, his letters to his brother Theo reveal a sensitive, intellectual man whose quest for connection transformed into a universal language of color.
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Please create a four-part short picture book featuring Kapibala as the main character. The theme is: It brings the first ray of sunshine to a town that is always overcast. The story should be gentle, nuanced, and the character’s appearance should remain consistent throughout.
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In the town of Greyhollow, the sun had forgotten how to shine. Thick, woolly clouds hugged the rooftops day after day, turning the world into a palette of slate and shadow. The flowers on the windowsills hung their heads low, and the people moved quietly, wrapped in coats against the chill. But deep in the alleyways, a little friend named Kapibala was waiting. With a heart full of warmth and a tiny red scarf tied tight, Kapibala knew it was time to change the weather.
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Kapibala climbed to the highest point in the square, right beneath the frozen hands of the Old Clock Tower. The air was still and cold. Closing its eyes, Kapibala took a deep breath, gathering every bit of kindness and hope stored in its heart. It wasn’t magic spells or loud shouts that were needed—just a gentle push. Slowly, a beam of pure, golden light began to pulse from Kapibala’s chest, cutting through the damp air like a needle through thread.
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The beam touched the underside of the great grey blanket above. For a moment, nothing happened. Then, slowly, the clouds began to unravel. They didn’t disappear all at once; they simply softened, turning from heavy lead to wispy cotton. The golden light spilled over the edges, painting the rooftops in amber. Down in the streets, a neighbor looked up, shielding their eyes, not from glare, but from wonder. The first true ray of sunshine had arrived.
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Greyhollow was no longer just grey. It was a place of golden mornings and long, sweet shadows. Kapibala sat on the steps of the clock tower, watching the town wake up. The flowers stood taller. The streetlamps seemed unnecessary now. Kapibala adjusted its red scarf, smiling a small, quiet smile. It hadn’t banished the clouds forever—they would return, as clouds do—but it had reminded everyone that even in the deepest overcast, the sun is always waiting just behind the veil. And sometimes, all it takes is one small spark to bring it out.
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Through Kapibala’s gentle persistence, Greyhollow learned that light is not just something that comes from the sky, but something that can be kindled from within. The town remained beautiful, not because the clouds never returned, but because its inhabitants now knew how to find the sun, even on the greyest days.
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Please design a graphic and text-based product page for a delicate and compact perfume product targeting urban white-collar workers.
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In the rhythm of the city, your scent should not shout—it should whisper. Introducing Lumina, a fragrance designed for the modern professional who moves seamlessly from boardroom to evening gala. Compact enough for your smallest clutch, yet potent enough to leave a lasting impression.
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Designed for Motion.
We understand that your day is unpredictable. That’s why Lumina isn’t just a perfume; it’s a portable accessory. Its leak-proof, magnetic cap ensures security in your bag, while its ergonomic shape fits perfectly in the palm of your hand for quick, discreet application during a busy schedule.
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The Scent Profile: Quiet Confidence
Top Notes: Bergamot & Pink Pepper – A sharp, energetic opening that wakes the senses.
Heart Notes: Iris & White Tea – Soft, powdery, and calming, providing a serene middle act.
Base Notes: Sandalwood & Musk – Warm, grounding, and enduring, leaving a subtle trail that lingers long after you’ve left the room.
Lumina is not about being noticed immediately; it’s about being remembered.
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Elevate your daily ritual. Discover the art of subtle presence with Lumina.
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Lumina: The Essence of Urban Grace. Available now in our signature 30ml travel-friendly format. Shop the collection today.
Unified Understanding and Generation with Image Generation Tools\nNext
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Please explain the pizza-making steps to me using a combination of text and images.
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Making the perfect homemade pizza is less about complex recipes and more about mastering a few key techniques. It begins with the foundation: the dough. Whether you are using a store-bought base or making your own, the goal is to achieve a balance of chewiness and crispness. Start by ensuring your surface is well-floured to prevent sticking, then gently work the dough outward from the center. Avoid using a rolling pin if you want airy edges; instead, use your fingertips to press the gas toward the crust, creating that signature puffy rim.
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Once your base is shaped, it’s time for the assembly. The golden rule of topping is ’less is more.’ Overloading the pizza leads to a soggy crust. Start with a thin layer of high-quality tomato sauce, leaving a clean border for the crust. Next, distribute fresh mozzarella evenly. If using wet ingredients like fresh tomatoes or vegetables, pat them dry first. Finish with a drizzle of olive oil and perhaps a few hardy herbs like oregano before baking. Save delicate greens like basil for after the bake to preserve their flavor and color.
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Baking is where the magic happens. Preheat your oven to its highest setting—usually 500°F (260°C) or higher. If you have a pizza stone, preheat it for at least 30 minutes to mimic a professional brick oven. Slide the pizza onto the hot surface and bake for 8–12 minutes. You are looking for a leopard-spotted char on the crust and bubbling, slightly browned cheese. When it comes out, let it rest for a minute, then add your fresh basil and a final drizzle of olive oil. Slice immediately while the steam is still rising.
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By focusing on gentle dough handling, balanced toppings, and high-heat baking, you can transform simple ingredients into a restaurant-quality pizza at home. Remember, the best pizza is one shared with good company, so don’t hesitate to experiment with your favorite flavors once you’ve mastered the basics.
Qwen3.6-Plus not only continues to improve its understanding of video content itself, but also increasingly supports video analysis and processing scenarios that are closer to real-world tasks.\nCompared with static images, video understanding requires the model to jointly handle temporal information, dynamic changes, and cross-frame relationships, making it a stronger test of the model’s ability to move from perception to understanding and processing.\nOur goal is for the model not only to understand what is happening in a video, but also to perform further analysis, extraction, and processing based on video content.
Our focus is on how the model can continuously perceive, reason, and take action in an environment.\nIn GUI Agent scenarios, for example, the model can understand the current state of a screen and combine this with planning capabilities to decide and execute the next step. Explorations such as OpenClaw further highlight the potential of multimodal models to complete complex interactive tasks in open environments.\nCombined with Claude Code-style workflows, multi-hop search, CI, and external tool use, the model can gradually evolve from a single-turn assistant into an execution system for real-world tasks: first understanding the problem, then retrieving information, generating solutions, invoking tools, and iterating based on feedback.
Please assist me in exporting my contacts of Personal Address Book from Thunderbird into contacts.csv file in the desktop and convert it to xIsx with Libreoffice Calc.
\nFind the shadow that perfectly matches the puppy pattern above.
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<think>
To solve this task, I need to identify the correct shadow of the puppy from the given options. I’ll first crop the main puppy image and then compare it with each of the shadow options by converting them to grayscale and checking for similarity or by matching key features. Since the shadows are silhouettes, I can also try template matching or simply comparing the shapes after thresholding. Given the grid layout, I’ll first segment the grid of shadows into individual cells. Then, I’ll compare the silhouette of the original puppy (converted to a binary mask) with each shadow option to find the best match.
</think>
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\n\n# Load the image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n\n# The image has a main figure at the top and a 3x3 grid of shadows below.\n# I need to segment these regions.\n# Let's first threshold to separate the content from the white background.\n_,thresh=cv2.threshold(gray,200,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)\n\n# Find contours to locate the bounding boxes of the different elements\ncontours,_=cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)\n\nboxes=[]\nforcntincontours:\nx,y,w,h=cv2.boundingRect(cnt)\nifw>50andh>50:# Filter small noise\nboxes.append((x,y,w,h))\n\n# Sort boxes. The top one is the reference. The rest are the grid.\n# Sorting by y-coordinate first to separate top from bottom, then by x.\n# However, simple sorting might be tricky if y-coordinates vary slightly.\n# Let's cluster by y-coordinate.\nboxes_sorted_y=sorted(boxes,key=lambdak:k[1])\n\n# The top box is the reference puppy\nref_box=boxes_sorted_y[0]\n\n# The remaining 9 boxes are the grid. Let's sort them into rows and columns.\ngrid_boxes=boxes_sorted_y[1:]\n\n# Sort by y-coordinate to group into rows\n# We expect 3 rows of 3.\n# A simple way is to sort by y, then split into chunks of 3, but we need to be careful about row alignment.\n# Let's sort by y and find significant jumps.\ngrid_boxes_sorted_y=sorted(grid_boxes,key=lambdak:k[1])\n\nrows=[]\niflen(grid_boxes_sorted_y)==9:\n# Assuming 3x3 grid\n# We can just sort all 9 by y, then take chunks of 3? No, that assumes perfect alignment.\n# Better: sort by y, then group those with similar y.\ncurrent_row=[grid_boxes_sorted_y[0]]\nforiinrange(1,len(grid_boxes_sorted_y)):\nprev_box=grid_boxes_sorted_y[i-1]\ncurr_box=grid_boxes_sorted_y[i]\n# If the y-difference is small, same row\nifabs(curr_box[1]-prev_box[1])<50:\ncurrent_row.append(curr_box)\nelse:\nrows.append(sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0]))# Sort row by x\ncurrent_row=[curr_box]\nrows.append(sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0]))\n\nprint(f"Reference box: {ref_box}")\nprint(f"Number of rows found: {len(rows)}")\nfori,rowinenumerate(rows):\nprint(f"Row {i+1}: {[b[:2]forbinrow]}")\n\n# Now, let's create a mask for the reference puppy and compare with each grid item.\n# Since the colors are different, shape matching is best.\n# I'll extract the reference ROI, convert to gray, threshold to get silhouette.\n# Then do the same for each grid item and compare using IoU or correlation.\n\ndefget_silhouette_mask(box,img_gray):\nx,y,w,h=box\nroi=img_gray[y:y+h,x:x+w]\n# Threshold to get the object. The background is white (255), object is darker.\n_,mask=cv2.threshold(roi,240,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)\nreturnmask\n\nref_mask=get_silhouette_mask(ref_box,gray)\n# Resize ref_mask to a standard size for easier comparison if needed, but direct comparison on cropped sizes is okay if we handle resizing.\n# Let's resize all masks to a common size, say 100x100, to compare shapes regardless of slight size differences.\ntarget_size=(100,100)\nref_mask_resized=cv2.resize(ref_mask,target_size)\n\nbest_match_score=-1\nbest_match_pos=None\n\nscores=[]\n\nforr_idx,rowinenumerate(rows):\nforc_idx,boxinenumerate(row):\ngrid_mask=get_silhouette_mask(box,gray)\ngrid_mask_resized=cv2.resize(grid_mask,target_size)\n \n# Calculate Intersection over Union (IoU) or simple correlation\n# Let's use normalized cross-correlation or just overlap ratio since they should be identical silhouettes.\n# But wait, the shadows are solid gray, while the original is colored.\n# The silhouette extraction `get_silhouette_mask` should handle this by thresholding non-white pixels.\n \nintersection=cv2.bitwise_and(ref_mask_resized,grid_mask_resized)\nunion=cv2.bitwise_or(ref_mask_resized,grid_mask_resized)\n \ninter_area=np.count_nonzero(intersection)\nunion_area=np.count_nonzero(union)\n \nifunion_area==0:\nscore=0\nelse:\nscore=inter_area/union_area\n \nscores.append(((r_idx+1,c_idx+1),score))\nifscore>best_match_score:\nbest_match_score=score\nbest_match_pos=(r_idx+1,c_idx+1)\n\nprint(f"Scores: {scores}")\nprint(f"Best match: Row {best_match_pos[0]}, Column {best_match_pos[1]} with score {best_match_score}")\n\n# Let's display the reference mask and the best match mask to verify\nbest_box=rows[best_match_pos[0]-1][best_match_pos[1]-1]\nbest_mask=get_silhouette_mask(best_box,gray)\nbest_mask_resized=cv2.resize(best_mask,target_size)\n\nplt.figure(figsize=(10,5))\nplt.subplot(1,3,1)\nplt.imshow(image[ref_box[1]:ref_box[1]+ref_box[3],ref_box[0]:ref_box[0]+ref_box[2]])\nplt.title("Reference Image")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,3,2)\nplt.imshow(ref_mask_resized,cmap='gray')\nplt.title("Reference Silhouette")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,3,3)\nplt.imshow(best_mask_resized,cmap='gray')\nplt.title(f"Best Match Silhouette (Row {best_match_pos[0]}, Col {best_match_pos[1]})")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n
The code successfully segmented the image into a grid of shadows and compared them to the reference puppy image.
It identified 3 rows and 3 columns of shadow options.
It calculated similarity scores for each option.
The best match was found at Row 1, Column 3 with a score of ~0.95.
The displayed images show the reference silhouette and the best match silhouette (Row 1, Col 3). Visually comparing the “Reference Silhouette” and “Best Match Silhouette”, they look identical in shape: the dog’s pose, the microphone stand, the base, and the musical notes all align perfectly.
Let’s double check the visual output.
The reference silhouette has the dog standing on its hind legs, holding a microphone. There are two musical notes to the right. The base is an oval platform.
The best match (Row 1, Col 3) shows the same outline.
Other options might have subtle differences like missing notes, different tail position, or different base shape.
Looking at the provided image of silhouettes:
Row 1, Col 1: The microphone head looks slightly different (maybe thicker?). The notes are present.
Row 1, Col 2: The microphone head is just a stick? No, it looks like a silhouette of the mic but maybe the angle is off. Wait, looking closely at the original image, the mic is held by the dog. In the shadow, the mic should be visible.
Row 1, Col 3: This one looks very complete. The mic stand base is connected. The notes are there.
Row 2, Col 1: The base is missing! It’s just a small circle under the stand, not the full stage.
Row 2, Col 2: Missing the microphone stand base/platform entirely.
Row 2, Col 3: The mic stand is just a thin line, no base platform.
Row 3, Col 1: Looks similar to Row 1, Col 3 but let’s check details.
Row 3, Col 2: Similar.
Row 3, Col 3: The mic head shape is different (rectangular vs roundish).
The code’s analysis points to Row 1, Column 3. The visual confirmation from the plotted silhouettes supports this. The “Reference Silhouette” derived from the colored image matches the “Best Match Silhouette” from Row 1, Col 3 very well.
Therefore, the correct shadow is at Row 1, Column 3.
</think>
Based on the code analysis and visual verification, the shadow that perfectly matches the puppy pattern is located at row 1, column 3.
\nFind the pattern that is different from the others in the image.
Qwen3.6-Plus
<think>
To locate the different pattern, I’ll first preprocess the image to segment the individual Christmas tree icons. Then, I’ll compare each icon to find the one that is distinct from the majority. I’ll start by loading the image, converting it to grayscale, and then detecting contours to identify the grid structure and extract each cell.
</think>
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\nimportsklearn.cluster\n\n# Load the image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n\n# Threshold to get the shapes\n# The background is white, and the shapes are red/blue.\n# I'll use Otsu's thresholding after Gaussian blurring.\nblur=cv2.GaussianBlur(gray,(5,5),0)\nret,thresh=cv2.threshold(blur,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)\n\n# Find contours to detect individual items\ncontours,_=cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)\n\n# Collect bounding boxes\nboxes=[]\nforcntincontours:\narea=cv2.contourArea(cnt)\n# Filter small noise and the large border if present\nif500<area<5000:# Adjust thresholds as needed\nx,y,w,h=cv2.boundingRect(cnt)\nboxes.append((x,y,w,h))\n\n# Sort boxes to form a grid\n# First, sort by y-coordinate to group into rows\n# I need to determine a tolerance to group boxes into the same row\nboxes_sorted_y=sorted(boxes,key=lambdak:k[1])\nrows=[]\nifboxes_sorted_y:\ncurrent_row=[boxes_sorted_y[0]]\nforiinrange(1,len(boxes_sorted_y)):\nprev_box=current_row[-1]\ncurr_box=boxes_sorted_y[i]\n# If the y-difference is small, they are in the same row\nifabs(curr_box[1]-prev_box[1])>20:# Heuristic threshold\nrows.append(sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0]))\ncurrent_row=[]\ncurrent_row.append(curr_box)\nrows.append(sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0]))\n\nprint(f"Number of rows detected: {len(rows)}")\nfori,rowinenumerate(rows):\nprint(f"Row {i+1}: {len(row)} items")\n\n# Visualize the grid to confirm\nvis_image=image.copy()\nfori,rowinenumerate(rows):\nforj,boxinenumerate(row):\nx,y,w,h=box\ncv2.rectangle(vis_image,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(0,255,0),1)\n\nplt.figure(figsize=(15,15))\nplt.imshow(vis_image)\nplt.title(f"Grid: {len(rows)}x{len(rows[0])ifrowselse0}")\nplt.axis('off')\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n\n# Now extract features and find the outlier\n# I'll resize each extracted ROI to a common size and flatten it.\n# Then use clustering or distance metrics to find the anomaly.\nrois=[]\npositions=[]\nforr_idx,rowinenumerate(rows):\nforc_idx,boxinenumerate(row):\nx,y,w,h=box\nroi=image[y:y+h,x:x+w]\nroi_resized=cv2.resize(roi,(30,30))# Resize to standard size\nrois.append(roi_resized.flatten())\npositions.append((r_idx+1,c_idx+1))\n\nrois_np=np.array(rois)\n\n# Find the outlier using isolation forest or simply distance from the median\nfromsklearn.ensembleimportIsolationForest\n\n# Flatten and normalize\nX=rois_np.astype(float)/255.0\n\n# Simple approach: calculate mean and find the point with largest distance\nmean_vec=np.mean(X,axis=0)\ndistances=np.linalg.norm(X-mean_vec,axis=1)\n\noutlier_idx=np.argmax(distances)\noutlier_pos=positions[outlier_idx]\nprint(f"Outlier found at: Row {outlier_pos[0]}, Column {outlier_pos[1]}")\n\n# Let's also verify by looking at the top few outliers\ntop_k_indices=np.argsort(distances)[::-1][:5]\nforidxintop_k_indices:\nprint(f"Rank {idx}: Pos={positions[idx]}, Dist={distances[idx]}")\n
The code successfully detected an 8x13 grid of Christmas tree icons. It then compared each extracted icon to find the outlier. The analysis identified an outlier at Row 7, Column 2 with a significantly higher distance (11.81) compared to the next highest distances (around 3.2-3.5). This suggests that the icon at (7, 2) is indeed different from the others.
Looking at the original image and the cropped grid visualization, I can visually verify this. Most trees have a blue bow on top. The tree at row 7, column 2 appears to be missing the blue bow on top.
Let me double check the row and column indexing.
The code output says “Row 7, Column 2”.
The problem asks for “a is the row number from top to bottom, and b is the column number from left to right”.
The visualization shows green bounding boxes around each detected item.
In the 7th row (counting from top), the 2nd item from the left clearly lacks the blue bow that all other trees have.
Therefore, the different pattern is at row 7, column 2.
</think>
Based on the code analysis, the outlier is located at row 7, column 2. Visual inspection confirms that the Christmas tree at this position is missing the blue bow on top, while all others have it.
\nIn the pattern, how many points do the blue line segments pass through in total?
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<think>
To count the number of points the blue line segments pass through, I’ll first process the image to identify the grid of points and the blue line. Then, I’ll determine which points lie on the blue line segments.
</think>
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\nimportsklearn.cluster\n\n# Load the image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\n\n# Convert to HSV to segment the blue color\nhsv=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2HSV)\n\n# Define range of blue colors\n# The background is white, points are black, lines are cyan/blue.\n# Let's try to segment the blue/cyan color.\nlower_blue=np.array([80,50,50])\nupper_blue=np.array([120,255,200])\n\n# Threshold the HSV image to get blue components\nmask1=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_blue,upper_blue)\nres1=cv2.bitwise_and(image,image,mask=mask1)\n\n# Also, the points are black dots. Let's find all dots first to establish the grid.\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n# Threshold to find dark spots (dots and lines)\n_,thresh=cv2.threshold(gray,100,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)\n\n# Find contours to locate the centers of the dots\ncontours,_=cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)\n\ndot_centers=[]\nforcontourincontours:\narea=cv2.contourArea(contour)\n# Filter based on area to find the dots. The dots seem small but distinct.\n# The lines are also thin. Let's look at the distribution of areas or just visualize.\nif10<area<100:# Adjust thresholds as needed\nM=cv2.moments(contour)\nifM["m00"]!=0:\ncX=int(M["m10"]/M["m00"])\ncY=int(M["m01"]/M["m00"])\ndot_centers.append((cX,cY))\n\n# Let's visualize the detected centers and the mask to ensure we have the grid\nplt.figure(figsize=(20,5))\n\nplt.subplot(1,3,1)\nplt.imshow(mask1,cmap='gray')\nplt.title(f"Blue Mask")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,3,2)\nplt.imshow(thresh,cmap='gray')\nplt.title(f"Threshold (Dots + Lines)")\nplt.axis('off')\n\n# Visualize detected centers on original image\nvis_image=image.copy()\nfori,(x,y)inenumerate(dot_centers):\ncv2.circle(vis_image,(x,y),5,(255,0,0),-1)\n\nplt.subplot(1,3,3)\nplt.imshow(vis_image)\nplt.title(f"Detected {len(dot_centers)} centers")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n\n# Print coordinates to understand the grid structure\nprint(f"Number of detected centers: {len(dot_centers)}")\nprint(f"Centers: {dot_centers}")\n
The previous code attempted to detect centers but seems to have only found 6, likely due to the thresholding or contour detection parameters not being robust enough for all the small black dots. The “Blue Mask” shows the blue lines are somewhat fragmented, and the “Threshold (Dots + Lines)” shows the dots are visible but some are faint.
Let me try a different approach:
Read the image.
Convert to HSV to segment the blue color more effectively. This should give me a clean mask of the blue lines.
Also, create a mask for the black dots. Since the background is white, simple thresholding should work for the dots.
Find the coordinates of all the black dots (the grid points).
Check which of these dot coordinates are “close enough” to the blue line pixels.
Let’s start by detecting the grid of points and the blue lines separately.
</think>
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\n\n# Load the image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\nhsv=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2HSV)\n\n# Define range of blue colors\n# The lines are a distinct cyan/blue.\nlower_blue=np.array([80,50,50])\nupper_blue=np.array([130,255,255])\n\n# Threshold the HSV image to get blue components\nmask_blue=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_blue,upper_blue)\nresult_blue=cv2.bitwise_and(image,image,mask=mask_blue)\n\n# Now detect the black dots\n# Convert to grayscale\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n# Threshold to find dark spots (dots and lines)\n_,mask_dark=cv2.threshold(gray,50,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)\n\n# We need to isolate just the dots. The lines are also dark in grayscale but we have a blue mask.\n# Let's subtract the blue mask area from the dark mask to find dots that are NOT blue.\n# But wait, the question asks for points the blue line segments PASS THROUGH.\n# This implies we need to find the grid points that are intersected by the blue line.\n\n# Strategy:\n# 1. Find all grid point locations (centroids of black blobs).\n# 2. Find all blue line pixel locations.\n# 3. For each grid point, check if it is close to any blue pixel.\n\n# Step 1: Find grid points.\n# The dots are black circles.\n# Let's use simple blob detection or contour finding on the inverted grayscale, excluding the blue region if necessary,\n# or just finding all dark blobs and filtering by size/shape.\n# Since the blue lines also connect some dots, the dots on the line might be part of the blue structure.\n# However, the original image has distinct black dots.\n\n# Let's try to detect circular blobs.\n# Invert grayscale\ngray_inv=255-gray\n# Threshold to get dark things\n_,binary=cv2.threshold(gray,80,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)\n\n# Morphological operations to separate dots from lines if they are connected?\n# Actually, let's just find contours and get centroids.\ncontours,_=cv2.findContours(binary,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)\n\ndot_centers=[]\nforcntincontours:\narea=cv2.contourArea(cnt)\n# Filter based on area to ignore noise and maybe large connected components if any\n# The dots seem to be roughly similar size.\nif20<area<500:# Adjust thresholds as needed\nM=cv2.moments(cnt)\nifM["m00"]!=0:\ncX=int(M["m10"]/M["m00"])\ncY=int(M["m01"]/M["m00"])\ndot_centers.append((cX,cY))\n\n# Let's visualize the detected dot centers and the blue mask\nplt.figure(figsize=(20,5))\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,1)\nplt.imshow(image)\nplt.title("Original Image")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,2)\nplt.imshow(mask_blue,cmap='gray')\nplt.title("Blue Mask")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,3)\nplt.imshow(binary,cmap='gray')\nplt.title("Binary Dark Mask")\nplt.axis('off')\n\n# Visualize detected centers\nvis_image=image.copy()\nfori,centerinenumerate(dot_centers):\ncv2.circle(vis_image,center,5,(255,0,0),-1)\n \nplt.subplot(1,4,4)\nplt.imshow(vis_image)\nplt.title(f"Detected {len(dot_centers)} Dot Centers")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n\n# Print coordinates for debugging\nprint(f"Detected {len(dot_centers)} dot centers.")\nprint("Centers:",dot_centers)\n\n# Now, check intersection\n# Get coordinates of blue pixels\nblue_pixels=np.column_stack(np.where(mask_blue>0))# (y, x)\nblue_pixel_set=set(map(tuple,blue_pixels))\n\npoints_on_line=[]\nforcenterindot_centers:\ncx,cy=center\n# Check if this center is close to any blue pixel\n# A simple distance check or checking a small neighborhood\nis_on_line=False\n# Check a small radius around the center\nfordyinrange(-5,6):\nfordxinrange(-5,6):\nny,nx=cy+dy,cx+dx\nif(ny,nx)inblue_pixel_set:\nis_on_line=True\nbreak\nifis_on_line:\nbreak\n \nifis_on_line:\npoints_on_line.append(center)\n\nprint(f"Points on blue line: {len(points_on_line)}")\nprint("Coordinates:",points_on_line)\n
User
\nDetected 0 dot centers.\nCenters: []\nPoints on blue line: 0\nCoordinates: []
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<think>
The previous attempt to detect dot centers failed (0 centers detected). The “Binary Dark Mask” shows the dots are visible but fragmented. The “Blue Mask” looks quite good, showing the continuous blue path.
Let me refine the dot detection:
The dots are black on a white background. I can threshold the grayscale image to find dark regions.
The “Binary Dark Mask” shows noise. I should use morphological operations (opening/closing) to clean up the mask and connect fragmented parts of the dots.
Then find contours and get centroids.
I also need to robustly detect the blue line pixels. The HSV approach seemed okay, but I can improve it by converting the mask to a set of coordinates.
Finally, for each detected dot center, I’ll check if it’s within a certain distance of any blue pixel.
Let me also print out the grid dimensions to help debug. It looks like a 5x5 grid.
</think>
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\n\n# Load image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\nh,w,_=image.shape\n\n# --- Step 1: Detect Blue Line ---\nhsv=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2HSV)\nlower_blue=np.array([80,50,50])\nupper_blue=np.array([120,255,255])\nblue_mask=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_blue,upper_blue)\n\n# Dilate blue mask slightly to ensure we cover points that might be under the line ends\nkernel=np.ones((5,5),np.uint8)\ndilated_blue_mask=cv2.dilate(blue_mask,kernel,iterations=2)\nblue_coords=np.column_stack(np.where(dilated_blue_mask>0))\n\n# --- Step 2: Detect Black Dots ---\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n# Threshold to get dark spots\n_,binary=cv2.threshold(gray,50,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)\n\n# Morphological operations to clean up noise and solidify dots\nkernel_dot=np.ones((3,3),np.uint8)\n# Erode to remove small noise, then dilate to restore size\neroded=cv2.erode(binary,kernel_dot,iterations=2)\ndilated_binary=cv2.dilate(eroded,kernel_dot,iterations=3)\n\n# Find contours for dots\ncontours,_=cv2.findContours(dilated_binary,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)\ndot_centers=[]\nforcntincontours:\narea=cv2.contourArea(cnt)\n# Filter based on area to avoid noise or large text/lines if any\n# Based on visual inspection, dots are small but significant\nif20<area<500: \nM=cv2.moments(cnt)\nifM["m00"]!=0:\ncX=int(M["m10"]/M["m00"])\ncY=int(M["m01"]/M["m00"])\n# Check if this center is NOT part of the blue line (to avoid detecting blue endpoints as dots if they overlap significantly, though dots are black)\n# Actually, the dots are black, so they won't be in the blue mask.\n# But the blue line connects them.\ndot_centers.append((cX,cY))\n\n# Sort dot centers to form a grid (optional but good for debugging)\n# Just visualize all detected centers\ndebug_image=image.copy()\npoints_on_line_count=0\npoints_on_line_coords=[]\n\nforcenterindot_centers:\nx,y=center\n# Check distance to nearest blue pixel\n# We have blue_coords as (y, x)\ndists=np.sqrt(np.sum((blue_coords-[y,x])**2,axis=1))\nmin_dist=np.min(dists)iflen(dists)>0elsefloat('inf')\n \n# If the dot center is close to the blue line (or covered by dilated mask)\n# Since we dilated the blue mask, we can just check if the point is in the mask\n# Or check min_dist. Let's use a threshold.\nifmin_dist<15:# 15 pixels tolerance\npoints_on_line_count+=1\npoints_on_line_coords.append(center)\ncv2.circle(debug_image,(x,y),10,(255,0,0),-1)# Red for on line\nelse:\ncv2.circle(debug_image,(x,y),5,(0,255,0),-1)# Green for not on line\n\nprint(f"Total dots detected: {len(dot_centers)}")\nprint(f"Dots on blue line: {points_on_line_count}")\nprint(f"Coordinates of dots on line: {points_on_line_coords}")\n\nplt.figure(figsize=(20,5))\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,1)\nplt.imshow(image)\nplt.title("Original Image")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,2)\nplt.imshow(blue_mask,cmap='gray')\nplt.title("Blue Mask")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,3)\nplt.imshow(dilated_binary,cmap='gray')\nplt.title("Cleaned Dot Mask")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,4)\nplt.imshow(debug_image)\nplt.title(f"Detected: {len(dot_centers)} dots, {points_on_line_count} on line")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n
User
Total dots detected: 0\nDots on blue line: 0\nCoordinates of dots on line: []\n
Qwen3.6-Plus
<think>
The dot detection is still failing. The “Cleaned Dot Mask” is completely black, which means my morphological operations or thresholding parameters are too aggressive. The dots are small and might be getting removed.
Let me try a simpler approach for dot detection:
Load the image.
Convert to grayscale.
Apply a simple binary threshold (e.g., < 50) to get the dark dots.
Use cv2.connectedComponentsWithStats or find contours on this thresholded image without aggressive morphological operations first.
Filter by area to remove noise.
For the blue line:
I’ll use the HSV mask from before, which seemed to work reasonably well (white lines on black background).
Dilate the blue mask slightly to ensure it covers the center of the dots that lie on the line.
Then, I’ll check for overlap between the dot centers and the dilated blue mask.
I’ll also visualize the detected dots and the blue mask to confirm everything is working.
</think>
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\n\n# Load image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\nh,w,_=image.shape\n\n# --- Detect Blue Line ---\nhsv=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2HSV)\nlower_blue=np.array([80,50,50])\nupper_blue=np.array([130,255,255])\nmask_blue=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_blue,upper_blue)\n# Dilate blue mask to cover dots that are on the line\nkernel=np.ones((5,5),np.uint8)\ndilated_blue_mask=cv2.dilate(mask_blue,kernel,iterations=2)\n\n# --- Detect Dots ---\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n# Threshold to find dark dots (black on white)\n_,mask_dots=cv2.threshold(gray,60,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)\n\n# Morphological operations to clean up noise but keep dots\n# Since dots are somewhat circular, opening might help remove small noise\nkernel_dots=np.ones((3,3),np.uint8)\n# Erode then dilate to separate close objects if needed, but here just cleaning\n# Let's try simple closing to fill gaps in dots if any, then opening to remove noise\ncleaned_dot_mask=cv2.morphologyEx(mask_dots,cv2.MORPH_CLOSE,kernel_dots)\ncleaned_dot_mask=cv2.morphologyEx(cleaned_dot_mask,cv2.MORPH_OPEN,kernel_dots)\n\n# Find contours for dots\ncontours,_=cv2.findContours(cleaned_dot_mask,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)\n\ndot_centers=[]\nforcntincontours:\narea=cv2.contourArea(cnt)\n# Filter by area - dots should have a reasonable size\nif20<area<500:# Adjust thresholds as needed\nM=cv2.moments(cnt)\nifM["m00"]!=0:\ncX=int(M["m10"]/M["m00"])\ncY=int(M["m01"]/M["m00"])\ndot_centers.append((cX,cY))\n\n# --- Count points on blue line ---\npoints_on_line=[]\nfori,(x,y)inenumerate(dot_centers):\n# Check if the point (x,y) is within the dilated blue mask\n# We need to handle image boundaries\nif0<=y<hand0<=x<w:\nifdilated_blue_mask[y,x]>0:\npoints_on_line.append((x,y))\n\nprint(f"Total dots detected: {len(dot_centers)}")\nprint(f"Dots on blue line: {len(points_on_line)}")\nprint(f"Coordinates of dots on line: {points_on_line}")\n\n# Visualize results\nplt.figure(figsize=(20,5))\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,1)\nplt.imshow(image)\nplt.title("Original Image")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,2)\nplt.imshow(dilated_blue_mask,cmap='gray')\nplt.title("Dilated Blue Mask")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,3)\nplt.imshow(cleaned_dot_mask,cmap='gray')\nplt.title("Cleaned Dot Mask")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,4)\nresult_image=image.copy()\nforx,yindot_centers:\ncv2.circle(result_image,(x,y),8,(0,255,0),-1)# Green for all dots\nforx,yinpoints_on_line:\ncv2.circle(result_image,(x,y),12,(255,0,0),2)# Red ring for dots on line\n\nplt.imshow(result_image)\nplt.title(f"Detected: {len(dot_centers)} dots, {len(points_on_line)} on line")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n
User
Total dots detected: 0\nDots on blue line: 0\nCoordinates of dots on line: []\n
Qwen3.6-Plus
<think>
The “Cleaned Dot Mask” now shows some white dots, but the contour detection is still finding 0 dots. This is strange. Let me look at the mask again - it shows small white squares. Maybe the area filter area > 5 is too strict for these tiny dots, or the thresholding is producing very small components that are being filtered out incorrectly in my logic (though 0 detected suggests no contours passed the filter).
Wait, looking at the “Cleaned Dot Mask”, there are indeed dots visible. The issue might be in how I’m iterating or counting. Let me print the number of contours found before filtering.
Also, I notice the “Dilated Blue Mask” looks good.
Let me try to:
Re-detect dots with a much lower area threshold or no area threshold initially, just to see what’s happening.
Visualize the contours on the original image to debug.
Since the grid seems regular (5x5), I could also try to detect all dark blobs and then organize them into a grid, but simple contour detection should suffice if tuned right.
Let’s also count manually by looking at the image to verify my final result later.\nTop row: 5 dots\nRow 2: 5 dots\nRow 3: 5 dots\nRow 4: 5 dots\nRow 5: 5 dots\nTotal 25 dots.
The blue line passes through:
Top row: 3rd dot (peak), 5th dot (end)
Row 2: 2nd dot, 4th dot
Row 3: 1st dot (start of zigzag), 3rd dot (peak), 5th dot (peak/end of segment)
Goes down to (row=4, col=5) [3,4] – Wait, let’s trace carefully.
Let’s just use code to detect the dots and check overlap. I’ll lower the area threshold significantly.
</think>
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\n\n# Load image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\nh,w,_=image.shape\n\n# 1. Detect Blue Line\nhsv=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2HSV)\nlower_blue=np.array([100,50,50])\nupper_blue=np.array([130,255,255])\nblue_mask=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_blue,upper_blue)\n# Dilate to make lines thicker and connect with dots\nkernel=np.ones((5,5),np.uint8)\ndilated_blue_mask=cv2.dilate(blue_mask,kernel,iterations=2)\n\n# 2. Detect Dots (Black)\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n# Threshold to get dark spots\n_,dot_mask=cv2.threshold(gray,80,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)\n\n# Find contours for dots\ncontours,_=cv2.findContours(dot_mask,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)\n\ndot_centers=[]\nforcntincontours:\narea=cv2.contourArea(cnt)\n# Filter noise but keep small dots. The image is likely high res.\n# Let's collect all and then filter based on expected size or just visualize.\nifarea>5:# Very small threshold\nM=cv2.moments(cnt)\nifM["m00"]!=0:\ncX=int(M["m10"]/M["m00"])\ncY=int(M["m01"]/M["m00"])\ndot_centers.append((cX,cY))\n\nprint(f"Total dot centers detected: {len(dot_centers)}")\n\n# Check which dots are on the blue line\ndots_on_line=[]\nfori,centerinenumerate(dot_centers):\nx,y=center\n# Check if this point is within the dilated blue mask\n# The mask coordinates are (y, x) for array access\nifdilated_blue_mask[y,x]>0:\ndots_on_line.append(center)\n\nprint(f"Dots on blue line: {len(dots_on_line)}")\n\n# Visualize\nplt.figure(figsize=(20,5))\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,1)\nplt.imshow(image)\nplt.title("Original Image")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,2)\nplt.imshow(dilated_blue_mask,cmap='gray')\nplt.title("Dilated Blue Mask")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,3)\nplt.imshow(dot_mask,cmap='gray')\nplt.title("Dot Mask (Binary Inverted)")\nplt.axis('off')\n\n# Create a copy to draw on\nvis_image=image.copy()\nforcenterindot_centers:\ncv2.circle(vis_image,center,5,(0,255,0),-1)# Green for all dots\nforcenterindots_on_line:\ncv2.circle(vis_image,center,10,(255,0,0),2)# Red ring for dots on line\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,4)\nplt.imshow(vis_image)\nplt.title(f"Detected: {len(dot_centers)} dots, {len(dots_on_line)} on line")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n\n# Print coordinates of dots on line for verification\nprint(f"Coordinates of dots on line: {dots_on_line}")\n
User
Total dot centers detected: 11\nDots on blue line: 0\n\nCoordinates of dots on line: []
Qwen3.6-Plus
<think>
The previous attempt to create a “Dilated Blue Mask” failed - it shows almost nothing. This is likely because the HSV range I used didn’t capture the blue color well in this specific image, or the mask creation logic was flawed. The “Dot Mask (Binary Inverted)” shows the dots are fragmented again.
Let me start fresh with a more robust approach:
Dot Detection: Convert to grayscale, threshold to get dark pixels. Use morphological closing to connect dot fragments. Find contours and filter by area. Since I know there are 25 dots in a roughly 5x5 grid, I can use that to validate.
Blue Line Detection: Convert to HSV. The blue color seems quite distinct. I’ll try a broader range of blue/cyan. Then create a binary mask. Dilate it to make lines thicker.
Overlap Check: For each detected dot center, check if the corresponding location in the blue line mask is white (or has high value).
I’ll also print the coordinates of all detected dots to ensure I have the full grid.
</think>
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\n\n# Load image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n\n# --- Dot Detection ---\n# Threshold to find dark dots\n_,dot_mask=cv2.threshold(gray,80,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV)\n\n# Morphological operations to clean up dots\nkernel=np.ones((5,5),np.uint8)\ndilated_dot_mask=cv2.dilate(dot_mask,kernel,iterations=2)\neroded_dot_mask=cv2.erode(dilated_dot_mask,kernel,iterations=1)\n\n# Find contours for dots\ndot_contours,_=cv2.findContours(eroded_dot_mask,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)\n\ndot_centers=[]\nforcntindot_contours:\narea=cv2.contourArea(cnt)\nifarea>20:# Filter small noise\nM=cv2.moments(cnt)\nifM["m00"]!=0:\ncX=int(M["m10"]/M["m00"])\ncY=int(M["m01"]/M["m00"])\ndot_centers.append((cX,cY))\n\nprint(f"Detected {len(dot_centers)} dots.")\n\n# Sort dots into a grid (top-to-bottom, left-to-right)\n# Since it's a grid, we can sort by y then x with some tolerance\ndot_centers.sort(key=lambdak:k[1])# Sort by y first\nrows=[]\niflen(dot_centers)>0:\ncurrent_row=[dot_centers[0]]\ncurrent_y=dot_centers[0][1]\nforiinrange(1,len(dot_centers)):\npt=dot_centers[i]\nifabs(pt[1]-current_y)<20:# Same row\ncurrent_row.append(pt)\nelse:\nrows.append(sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0]))\ncurrent_row=[pt]\ncurrent_y=pt[1]\nrows.append(sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0]))\n\nprint(f"Grid dimensions: {len(rows)} rows")\nfori,rowinenumerate(rows):\nprint(f"Row {i}: {len(row)} dots")\n\n# --- Blue Line Detection ---\nhsv=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2HSV)\n# Define range of blue colors\n# The line is a bright cyan/blue.\nlower_blue=np.array([90,50,50])\nupper_blue=np.array([110,255,255])\n\n# Threshold the HSV image to get blue components\nmask1=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_blue,upper_blue)\n# Sometimes blue wraps around 180, but usually not for this shade.\n# Let's try a wider range just in case\nlower_blue2=np.array([80,50,50])\nupper_blue2=np.array([120,255,255])\nmask2=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_blue2,upper_blue2)\n\nblue_mask=cv2.bitwise_or(mask1,mask2)\n\n# Dilate blue mask to cover dot centers\nkernel_line=np.ones((5,5),np.uint8)\ndilated_blue_mask=cv2.dilate(blue_mask,kernel_line,iterations=3)\n\n# --- Count points on line ---\npoints_on_line=0\ncoords_on_line=[]\n\nforr_idx,rowinenumerate(rows):\nforc_idx,ptinenumerate(row):\nx,y=pt\n# Check if this point is in the dilated blue mask\n# Need to handle boundaries\nif0<=y<dilated_blue_mask.shape[0]and0<=x<dilated_blue_mask.shape[1]:\nifdilated_blue_mask[y,x]>0:\npoints_on_line+=1\ncoords_on_line.append(pt)\n\nprint(f"Points on blue line: {points_on_line}")\nprint(f"Coordinates: {coords_on_line}")\n\n# --- Visualization ---\nplt.figure(figsize=(20,5))\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,1)\nplt.imshow(image)\nplt.title("Original Image")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,2)\nplt.imshow(dot_mask,cmap='gray')\nplt.title("Initial Dot Mask (Inverted)")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,3)\nplt.imshow(eroded_dot_mask,cmap='gray')\nplt.title("Cleaned Dot Mask")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,4,4)\nplt.imshow(dilated_blue_mask,cmap='gray')\nplt.title("Dilated Blue Mask")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n\n# Visualize detected points on original image\nvis_image=image.copy()\nforr_idx,rowinenumerate(rows):\nforc_idx,ptinenumerate(row):\nx,y=pt\ncolor=(0,255,0)# Green for all\nifptincoords_on_line:\ncolor=(255,0,0)# Red for on line\ncv2.circle(vis_image,(x,y),8,color,-1)\n\nplt.figure(figsize=(10,10))\nplt.imshow(vis_image)\nplt.title(f"Detected {len(dot_centers)} dots. {points_on_line} on line.")\nplt.axis('off')\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n
The code successfully detected 25 dots in a 5x5 grid and identified 14 points that lie on the blue line. The visualization shows red dots for points on the line and green for others, which matches the visual pattern in the original image perfectly.
Let me verify the count by looking at the last image:
Row 0 (top): 3rd and 5th are red (2 points)
Row 1: 2nd and 4th are red (2 points)
Row 2: 1st, 3rd, 5th are red (3 points)
Row 3: 2nd, 4th, 5th are red (3 points)
Row 4 (bottom): 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th are red (4 points)
Total: 2 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 4 = 14 points.
The code output says “Points on blue line: 14”. This matches my manual verification from the visualization.
The question asks “how many points do the blue line segments pass through in total?”. The answer is 14.
</think>
Based on the code analysis and visualization, the blue line segments pass through 14 points in total.
\nPlease answer the following question and also provide your problem-solving roadmap. Question: This picture was taken in September 2023. Approximately tens of meters northwest of the shooting location, there is a bustling local shopping plaza. In 2024, what content was written vertically on the right side of the market’s main sign?
Qwen3.6-Plus
<think>
Let me analyze the image carefully. I can see:
A sign that reads “SATUAN PERIKANAN SANDAKAN” with Chinese characters and “SANDAKAN FISHING ASSOCIATION” below it.
Below that, there’s a sign for “YU HONG AUTO” with Chinese characters.
The location is clearly Sandakan, Malaysia (Sabah). The sign “SATUAN PERIKANAN SANDAKAN” translates to “Sandakan Fishing Association” in Malay.
The question asks about a shopping plaza approximately tens of meters northwest of this shooting location, and what content was written vertically on the right side of the market’s main sign in 2024.
So I’m looking for a shopping plaza near the Sandakan Fishing Association, likely in the area around Jalan Bulu Sim Sim or the nearby market district. I need to find what’s northwest of this location and identify the market’s main sign with its vertical text from 2024.
</think>
<tool_call>\n<function=web_search>\n<parameter=queries>\n[“Sandakan Fishing Association location address”, “Sandakan market shopping plaza near Sandakan Fishing Association”, “Sandakan wet market main sign 2024”]\n</tool_call>\n<tool_call>\n<function=image_search>\n<parameter=bbox>\n[0, 430, 1000, 720]\n<parameter=img_idx>\n0\n</tool_call>
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Pusat Bandar Sandakan, 90000 ...\nDate: N/A\n\n[2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/386802805032470/posts/2314909118888486/\nTitle: 5.30pm until 9.30pm (new operating) Location - Sandakan Fishing ...\nSnippet: Delivery time: 12pm-2pm (Lunch) 5pm-7pm(Dinner) This is our address 223 Rangoon Road #01-01/02 Singapore 218460 Our restaurant operating hours : ...\nDate: Dec 31, 2024\n\n[3] https://www.facebook.com/goodfoodsabah/posts/-sandakan-fishing-association-%E5%B1%B1%E6%89%93%E6%A0%B9%E9%B1%BC%E4%B8%9A%E5%85%AC%E4%BC%9Asandakan-fishing-association-persatuan-peri/379621820547337/\nTitle: Sandakan Fishing Association 山打根鱼业公会 Sandakan Fishing ...\nSnippet: This place is located at Sandakan Town next to Wisma Khoo, first floor, follow the map link below to locate it. IMPORTANT - Need reservation, no ...\nDate: Sep 5, 2021\n\n[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq1jE5Daw_Y\nTitle: Must Try Authentic Home Cooked Food @ Sandakan Fishing ...\nSnippet: ... location guide at the bottom) The chef is cooking everything by ... Address:- Sandakan Fishing Association First Floor, Sandakan Town ...\nDate: Feb 12, 2023\n\n[5] https://mysociety.my/societies/info/34215/persatuan-perikanan-sandakan-sandakan-fishing-association\nTitle: Persatuan Perikanan Sandakan (sandakan Fishing Association)\nSnippet: 9TH FLOOR, LOT 3, BLOCK XLVII, JALAN SATU SANDAKAN, 90000 SANDAKAN. Persatuan Perikanan Sandakan (sandakan Fishing Association).\nDate: N/A\n\n[6] https://reviewbah.com/sandakan/restaurant/sandakan-fishing-association\nTitle: Sandakan Fishing Association - Seafood - Reviewbah\nSnippet: Sandakan Fishing Association is a restaurant listing. It is located at Sandakan ... Location. Pusat Bandar Sandakan, 90000 Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. Quick ...\nDate: N/A\n\n[7] https://wanderlog.com/list/geoCategory/192713/best-cheap-eats-in-sandakan-division\nTitle: The 15 best cheap eats in Sandakan Division - Wanderlog\nSnippet: This location is in Sandakan town, in a fishing association, the table are very limited, only 4 tables, the seafood is very fresh, you can come and try it.\nDate: N/A\n\n[8] https://www.facebook.com/nataliehomestaysdk/photos/sandakan-fishing-association-%E5%B1%B1%E6%89%93%E6%A0%B9%E6%B8%94%E4%B8%9A%E5%85%AC%E4%BC%9A%E5%9C%B0%E5%9D%80lebuh-empat-pusat-bandar-sandakan-90000-sa/5032547516864135/\nTitle: Natalie - 【Sandakan Fishing Association 山打根渔业公会】 地址 ...\nSnippet: 【Sandakan Fishing Association 山打根渔业公会】 地址：Lebuh Empat, Pusat Bandar Sandakan, 90000, Sandakan, Sabah 电话：012-8646186 营业 ...\nDate: May 6, 2022\n\n[9] https://www.instagram.com/p/CTeIVcinBdR/\nTitle: Sandakan Fishing Association 山打根鱼业公会 Sandakan Fishing ...\nSnippet: ... located at Sandakan Town, next to Wisma Khoo, first floor. IMPORTANT - Need reservation, no walk-in. Limited table. Takeaway is available ...\nDate: Sep 5, 2021\n\n[10] https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Fishing_Association\nTitle: Fishing Association | Genshin Impact Wiki - Fandom\nSnippet: This grassroots organization founded by people who love fishing has members throughout Teyvat. They are innately passionate about fishing.\nDate: N/A\n\n[11] https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g303997-d33392982-Reviews-Sandakan_Central_Market-Sandakan_Sandakan_Division_Sabah.html\nTitle: Sandakan Central Market (2026) - All You MUST Know ... - Tripadvisor\nSnippet: A large department store with many local items, especially the fruit, vegetables and fish. Annoying stairs to other floors, if you have difficulty walking.\nDate: N/A\n\n[12] https://wanderlog.com/place/details/1139556/sandakan-central-market\nTitle: Sandakan Central Market - Wanderlog\nSnippet: Sandakan Central Market is a bustling bazaar-like setting located near the waterfront, offering a wide array of local products and culinary delights.\nDate: N/A\n\n[13] https://sandakan.rainforestlodge.com/pages/central-market\nTitle: Central Market - Sandakan Rainforest Lodge\nSnippet: The Central Market is where the locals come to buy fresh produce, fruits, delicacies and crafts, sarongs and seashells. You may spot stalls selling shirts, ...\nDate: N/A\n\n[14] https://www.mysabah.com/wordpress/sandakan-central-market/\nTitle: Sandakan Central Market - MySabah.com\nSnippet: Sandakan Central Market is located in Old Slipway of Sandakan City Centre ... 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Now I have confirmed the location is the Sandakan Fishing Association (Persatuan Perikanan Sandakan), located at Lebuh Empat, Pusat Bandar Sandakan.
The question asks about a bustling local shopping plaza approximately tens of meters northwest of this location, and what content was written vertically on the right side of the market’s main sign in 2024.
Looking at the search results, I can see references to:
Sandakan Central Market - located near the waterfront
Harbour Mall Sandakan - described as the largest shopping mall of Sandakan
The Sandakan Fishing Association is at Lebuh Empat, Pusat Bandar Sandakan.
So the Central Market is likely northwest of the Fishing Association, and I’m seeing references to a wholesale night market at the Sandakan Public Market area that was set to cease operations after February 28, 2026. I need to find more specific details about what’s written on the market’s main sign in 2024.
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Now I can see the main sign of Sandakan Central Market (Pasar Umum Sandakan). The sign shows:
“PASAR UMUM SANDAKAN” (top line)
“山打根中央巴刹” (Chinese characters in the middle)
“SANDAKAN CENTRAL MARKET” (bottom line)
“2006” written vertically on the right side
The numbers “2 0 0 6” are written vertically on the right side of the sign. This is from the 2022 image, but the question asks about what was written in 2024.
Let me search for more recent images of the Sandakan Central Market sign from 2024 to confirm whether the “2006” is still there or if it changed.
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[53] https://www.mysabah.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20151221_2.jpg\nTitle: Sandakan Central Market - MySabah.com\nSource: MySabah.com\nImage: \n\n[54] https://grocerystorenearme.my/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/pasar-umum-sandakan.jpg\nTitle: Pasar Umum Sandakan\nSource: Panduan Lengkap Mencari Grocery Store Near Me di Malaysia\nImage: \n\n[55] https://www.utusanborneo.com.my/sites/default/files/images/article/20220922/twu-ub220922-hs-mpsp2.jpg\nTitle: Projek naik taraf Pasar Umum Sandakan perlu disokong ...\nSource: Utusan Borneo\nImage: \n\n[56] https://www.mysabah.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20151221_1.jpg\nTitle: Sandakan Central Market - MySabah.com\nSource: MySabah.com\nImage: \n\n[57] https://www.molon.de/galleries/Malaysia/Sabah/Sandakan/images01/13%20Pasar%20Umum%20Sandakan%20central%20market.jpg\nTitle: Photo of Pasar Umum Sandakan central market. Sandakan, Sabah ...\nSource: Alfred Molon\nImage: \n\n[58] https://sabaheats.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sandakan-central-market.jpg\nTitle: Guide to food hunting at Sandakan Central Market - Sabah Eats\nSource: Sabah Eats\nImage: \n\n[59] https://www.theislanddrum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Central-Market-1-scaled.jpg\nTitle: 11 Cheap Things to Do in Sandakan - The Island Drum\nSource: The Island Drum\nImage: \n\n[60] https://c8.alamy.com/comp/M0CH77/sandakan-central-market-building-M0CH77.jpg\nTitle: Sandakan Central Market Building Stock Photo - Alamy\nSource: Alamy\nImage: \n\n[61] https://explorergenes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Snapseed-3-1024x731.jpeg.webp\nTitle: Some Sublime, Some Gritty in Sandakan City, Malaysia ...\nSource: Explorer Genes\nImage: \n\n[62] https://cache3.travelfish.org/b/assets/2015/gallery/thumbR/gallery_sight_thumbR_623_1758928406.jpg\nTitle: Sandakan Central Market, Sandakan — Visitor guide & review\nSource: Travelfish.org\nImage: \n
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Qwen3.6-Plus
<think>
I now have a very clear picture of what the Sandakan Central Market (Pasar Umum Sandakan) main sign looks like. Multiple images from different years (2015, 2022, and 2025) consistently show the same sign with “2006” written vertically on the right side.
The sign reads:
Top line: “PASAR UMUM SANDAKAN”
Middle line: “山打根中央巴刹” (Chinese characters)
Bottom line: “SANDAKAN CENTRAL MARKET”
Right side (vertical): “2 0 0 6”
The “2006” appears to be the year the market building was constructed or renovated.
Multiple sources from 2015 through 2025 all confirm this vertical numbering on the right side of the sign, and the Sandakan Fishing Association is located just southeast of the market on Lebuh Empat.
Identify the shooting location from the image → The sign clearly reads “SATUAN PERIKANAN SANDAKAN / 山打根渔业公会 / SANDAKAN FISHING ASSOCIATION”, placing the photo at the Sandakan Fishing Association in Sandakan town, Sabah, Malaysia.
Locate the nearby shopping plaza → The Sandakan Fishing Association is at Lebuh Empat, Pusat Bandar Sandakan. The bustling Pasar Umum Sandakan (Sandakan Central Market) lies just tens of meters to the northwest of this location.
Find the market’s main sign in 2024 → Multiple images from 2015, 2022, and 2025 all show the same unchanged main entrance sign of Pasar Umum Sandakan.
Qwen3.6-Plus marks a critical milestone in our journey toward native multimodal agents, delivering an unprecedented leap in agentic coding. By directly addressing real-world developer needs, we have laid a robust and reliable foundation for next-generation AI applications. Building on this momentum, our immediate focus shifts to the full rollout of the Qwen3.6 series. In the coming days, we will also open-source smaller-scale variants, reaffirming our commitment to accessibility and community-driven innovation. Looking further ahead, we will continue pushing the boundaries of model autonomy, targeting increasingly complex, long-horizon repository-level tasks. We are deeply grateful for the invaluable feedback from the Qwen3.5 era and eagerly anticipate the groundbreaking projects you will create with Qwen3.6-Plus.
Feel free to cite the following article if you find Qwen3.6-Plus helpful:
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Qwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving
We introduce Qwen-Drive-1.0, the first vision-language foundation model for autonomous driving that unifies 3D perception and visual question answering at the pretraining stage and further extends to motion planning, while keeping the pretrained VLM architecture entirely untouched. Built on the natively multimodal Qwen3.5-4B, it attaches two external modules. A BEV perception head serves as an explicit, inspectable 3D probe, jointly performing 3D object detection, semantic occupancy prediction, and BEV map segmentation, and a Planning Expert generates future ego trajectories through flow matching. Through staged training, we substantially boost the autonomous driving capability of a general-purpose VLM and validate it on 3D perception, driving visual question answering, and motion planning tasks, forming a unified driving vision-language model that offers a new-generation VLM base for driving-scenario adaptation.
Qwen-Drive-1.0 is the first vision-language foundation model for autonomous driving that unifies 3D perception and visual question answering at the pretraining stage and further extends to motion planning, while keeping the pretrained VLM architecture entirely untouched.
An external BEV perception head serves as an explicit, inspectable 3D probe, jointly learning 3D detection, semantic occupancy prediction, and BEV map segmentation, equipping the same pretrained VLM with clear perception outputs while preserving highly competitive vision-language performance.
A staged training and data recipe unifies cross-dataset labels, rewrites responses, filters samples for consistency, and combines driving data with general-purpose vision-language supervision, supporting domain adaptation while mitigating catastrophic forgetting.
A Planning Expert tailored to pretrained VLM representations generates future ego trajectories with flow matching. Unified trajectory annotations enable joint training across multiple public driving datasets and yield highly competitive results across open-loop, pseudo-closed-loop, and closed-loop evaluations.
Qwen-Drive-1.0 builds on the natively multimodal Qwen3.5-4B. A shared vision encoder and VLM process single-view and multi-view driving images, temporal image sequences, and general images. Without changing the pretrained architecture, two external modules read from this shared pathway. The BEV perception head builds a BEV representation from multi-view single-frame inputs and jointly performs 3D object detection, semantic occupancy prediction, and BEV map segmentation. It acts as an explicit, inspectable 3D probe, and its losses provide an additional gradient path into the shared visual pathway during joint training. The Planning Expert is a diffusion transformer tailored to VLM representations. It generates 5-second ego trajectories through flow matching, with an optional textual planning reason as condition. Perception, question answering, and planning thus reside in one pretrained VLM.
Driving Scene Understanding without Losing General Capability#
Qwen-Drive-1.0-SFT reaches a driving QA average of 69.43, leading both general-purpose VLMs and driving or embodied specialists, and demonstrating its strong driving scene understanding capability.
InternVL3.5-8B-Inst.
LLaVA-OV2-8B
Qwen3.5-4B
Cosmos-Reason2-8B
Cosmos3-nano
MiMo-Embodied-7B
Alpamayo-1.5-10B
Qwen-Drive-1.0-SFT
Driving VQA
LingoQA
46.40
41.20
70.40
59.60
65.00
72.00
64.00
77.80
Ego3D RMSE ↓
23.01
24.97
13.17
12.62
22.41
9.85
25.31
7.78
VLAD
54.47
58.71
65.38
56.37
57.73
50.33
9.13
66.52
SURDS
32.80
38.60
52.95
19.54
39.72
43.06
3.10
66.13
WaymoQA Safety
54.47
49.65
62.46
57.68
56.93
66.54
42.61
70.70
WaymoQA All
58.09
55.23
67.10
57.93
58.36
69.56
44.37
74.47
CoC All
--
0.57
2.58
1.72
4.01
--
3.44
41.26
IH
47.50
54.00
59.00
56.00
2.00
61.00
3.00
71.00
Knowledge, Reasoning, and Recognition
MMBench
80.03
82.66
87.07
82.82
79.57
--
7.51
85.53
MMStar
64.13
64.93
75.33
65.27
66.67
22.40
26.13
75.87
MMMU
62.00
54.67
73.44
59.11
60.89
--
27.44
72.67
MMMU-Pro Std
46.42
36.30
64.86
36.07
46.36
27.40
15.61
62.72
MMMU-Pro Vis
42.25
25.95
61.27
43.53
40.75
28.09
13.47
59.71
CharXiv
41.70
40.10
65.10
42.50
42.10
57.50
1.50
64.40
OCRBench
83.20
79.30
86.90
87.00
85.20
78.80
3.20
86.40
RealWorldQA
66.93
71.76
76.34
67.45
69.67
28.50
46.93
78.95
SimpleVQA
40.77
36.68
47.84
45.25
44.99
--
--
46.12
CountQA
20.94
22.58
35.86
22.32
23.63
22.64
4.71
31.74
Spatial Understanding and Grounding
EmbSpatial
74.20
78.43
75.99
77.61
77.88
45.05
20.58
78.85
ERQA
42.00
42.25
46.25
43.25
41.25
39.75
27.50
48.50
RefSpatial
--
--
54.51
51.81
--
2.17
--
50.78
Omni3D
--
--
47.40
32.85
32.26
--
--
45.79
ODinW13
--
--
40.78
40.19
35.87
--
--
45.87
* All benchmarks use the same high-certainty decoding settings (greedy=false, top-p=0.001, top-k=1, temperature=0.01, repetition_penalty=1.0, presence_penalty=0.0) to more directly reflect model capability. * LingoQA is scored with Qwen-Plus as the judge instead of the official LingoJudge, which we found to score leniently and inconsistently across scenarios. Under the official LingoJudge protocol, Qwen-Drive-1.0-SFT obtains a LingoScore of 79.4. * The same judge scores every method on each benchmark. * -- marks an invalid or unparsable response.
Qwen-Drive-1.0 demonstrates outstanding performance in motion planning, both in open-loop and closed-loop settings. The training is entirely based on publicly available data, comprising a total of 2.83 million samples. Due to differences in annotation styles across various datasets, we unified the trajectory format to achieve stable 5-second trajectory predictions at 10 Hz.
AutoVLA
SpanVLA
MindVLA-U1
Alpamayo-1.5
SimWAMIL
Qwen-Drive-1.0-SFT
Qwen-Drive-1.0-RL
Open-loop
WOD-E2E (RFS val/test ↑)
--/7.56
--
8.20/7.87
--
--
7.95/7.78
8.45/7.91
WOD-E2E (ADE 5s val/test ↓)
--/2.96
--
2.28/2.66
--
--
2.31/2.65
1.27/2.67
PAI-AV (Avg. ADE 3s ↓)
--
--
--
0.35
0.41
0.37
0.42
PAI-AV (Avg. ADE 5s ↓)
--
--
--
1.05
--
1.07
1.11
Pseudo-closed-loop
NAVSIM (PDMS ↑)
89.6
90.3
--
--
90.3
88.2
90.7
NAVSIM best-of-6 (PDMS ↑)
--
--
--
--
--
89.3
91.4
Closed-loop
AlpaSim (at-fault score ↑)
--
--
--
0.45
0.30
0.27
0.37
* AutoVLA and SimWAM train a separate model on each dataset. * The SFT column reports Qwen-Drive-1.0-SFT conditioned on planning reasoning. * IL denotes imitation learning. * -- indicates that the method does not report a result on the corresponding benchmark.
We consider Qwen-Drive-1.0 an initial step towards a vision-language foundation model for autonomous driving. Specifically, we introduce a BEV perception head as an explicit, inspectable 3D probe and a Planning Expert that generates future ego trajectories through flow matching. Through staged training, we substantially boost the autonomous driving capability of a general-purpose VLM and validate this route on 3D perception, driving visual question answering, and motion planning, forming a unified driving vision-language model that offers a new-generation VLM base for driving-scenario adaptation. Still, the consistency between textual reasoning and the generated trajectory remains to be strengthened, which we leave as a focus of future work.
@misc{zhou2026qwendrive10initialstepvisionlanguage,\ntitle={Qwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving}, \nauthor={Xin Zhou and Zongchuang Zhao and Zhibo Yang and Mingsheng Li and Humen Zhong and Shuai Bai and Du Chu and Ruizhe Chen and Zhaohai Li and Jun Tang and Qiuyue Wang and Mingkun Yang and Jiazhao Zhang and Dayiheng Liu and Dingkang Liang and Xiang Bai},\nyear={2026},\neprint={2609.00111},\narchivePrefix={arXiv},\nprimaryClass={cs.CV},\nurl={https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00111}, \n}\n
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Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
Following the release of Qwen3.6-Plus, we are sharing an early preview of our next proprietary model: Qwen3.6-Max-Preview. Compared to Qwen3.6-Plus, this preview release brings stronger world knowledge and instruction following, along with significant agentic coding improvements across a wide range of benchmarks. As a preview, the model is still under active development — we are continuing to iterate and expect further gains in subsequent versions.
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is the hosted proprietary model available via\nAlibaba Cloud Model Studio, featuring:
improved agentic coding capability over Qwen3.6-Plus
stronger world knowledge and instruction following
improved real-world agent and knowledge reliability performance
Below we present evaluations of Qwen3.6-Max-Preview against leading frontier models. Compared to Qwen3.6-Plus, the preview release delivers significant improvements in agentic coding (e.g., SkillsBench +9.9, SciCode +6.3, NL2Repo +5.0, Terminal-Bench 2.0 +3.8), stronger world knowledge (SuperGPQA +2.3, QwenChineseBench +5.3), and better instruction following (ToolcallFormatIFBench +2.8).
This release supports the preserve_thinking feature: preserving thinking content from all preceding turns in messages, which is recommended for agentic tasks.
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio supports industry-standard protocols, including chat completions and responses APIs compatible with OpenAI’s specification, as well as an API interface compatible with Anthropic.
Example code for chat completions API is provided below:
"""\nEnvironment variables (per official docs):\n DASHSCOPE_API_KEY: Your API Key from https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com\n DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL: (optional) Base URL for compatible-mode API.\n - Beijing: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - Singapore: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - US (Virginia): https://dashscope-us.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n DASHSCOPE_MODEL: (optional) Model name; override for different models.\n"""\nfromopenaiimportOpenAI\nimportos\n\napi_key=os.environ.get("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\nifnotapi_key:\nraiseValueError(\n"DASHSCOPE_API_KEY is required. "\n"Set it via: export DASHSCOPE_API_KEY='your-api-key'"\n)\n\nclient=OpenAI(\napi_key=api_key,\nbase_url=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL",\n"https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",\n),\n)\n\nmessages=[{"role":"user","content":"Introduce vibe coding."}]\n\nmodel=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_MODEL",\n"qwen3.6-max-preview",\n)\ncompletion=client.chat.completions.create(\nmodel=model,\nmessages=messages,\nextra_body={\n"enable_thinking":True,\n# "preserve_thinking": True,\n},\nstream=True\n)\n\nreasoning_content=""# Full reasoning trace\nanswer_content=""# Full response\nis_answering=False# Whether we have entered the answer phase\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Reasoning"+"="*20+"\\n")\n\nforchunkincompletion:\nifnotchunk.choices:\nprint("\\nUsage:")\nprint(chunk.usage)\ncontinue\n\ndelta=chunk.choices[0].delta\n\n# Collect reasoning content only\nifhasattr(delta,"reasoning_content")anddelta.reasoning_contentisnotNone:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint(delta.reasoning_content,end="",flush=True)\nreasoning_content+=delta.reasoning_content\n\n# Received content, start answer phase\nifhasattr(delta,"content")anddelta.content:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Answer"+"="*20+"\\n")\nis_answering=True\nprint(delta.content,end="",flush=True)\nanswer_content+=delta.content\n
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is an early preview of our next proprietary model, delivering meaningful improvements over Qwen3.6-Plus in agentic coding, world knowledge, and instruction following. It achieves the top score on six major coding benchmarks — SWE-bench Pro, Terminal-Bench 2.0, SkillsBench, QwenClawBench, QwenWebBench, and SciCode — with substantial gains over its predecessor. It also demonstrates stronger knowledge (SuperGPQA, QwenChineseBench) and better instruction following (ToolcallFormatIFBench).
As a preview release, Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is still under active development. We are continuing to iterate on the model and expect further improvements in subsequent versions. We welcome community feedback and look forward to seeing what you build. Stay tuned!
Feel free to cite the following article if you find Qwen3.6-Max-Preview helpful:
@misc{qwen36_max_preview,\ntitle={{Qwen3.6-Max-Preview}: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving},\nurl={https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview},\nauthor={{Qwen Team}},\nmonth={April},\nyear={2026}\n}\n
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All
Following the launch of Qwen3.6-Plus, we are excited to open-source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B — a sparse yet remarkably capable mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 35 billion total parameters and only 3 billion active parameters. Despite its efficiency, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B delivers outstanding agentic coding performance, surpassing its predecessor Qwen3.5-35B-A3B by a wide margin and rivaling much larger dense models such as Qwen3.5-27B and Gemma4-31B. Still supporting both multimodal thinking and non-thinking modes, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B works as one of the most versatile open-source models available today. Now, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is live on Qwen Studio, available through our API, and released as open weights for the community.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is a fully open-source MoE model (35B total / 3B active), featuring:
exceptional agentic coding capability competitive with much larger models
strong multimodal perception and reasoning ability
With only 3B active parameters, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B outperforms the dense 27B-parameter Qwen3.5-27B on several key coding benchmarks and dramatically surpasses its direct predecessor Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, especially on agentic coding and reasoning tasks.
Qwen3.5-27B
Gemma4-31B
Qwen3.5-35BA3B
Gemma4-26BA4B
Qwen3.6-35BA3B
Coding Agent
SWE-bench Verified
75.0
52.0
70.0
17.4
73.4
SWE-bench Multilingual
69.3
51.7
60.3
17.3
67.2
SWE-bench Pro
51.2
35.7
44.6
13.8
49.5
Terminal-Bench 2.0
41.6
42.9
40.5
34.2
51.5
Claw-Eval Avg
64.3
48.5
65.4
58.8
68.7
Claw-Eval Pass^3
46.2
25.0
51.0
28.0
50.0
SkillsBench Avg5
27.2
23.6
4.4
12.3
28.7
QwenClawBench
52.2
41.7
47.7
38.7
52.6
NL2Repo
27.3
15.5
20.5
11.6
29.4
QwenWebBench
1068
1197
978
1178
1397
General Agent
TAU3-Bench
68.4
67.5
68.9
59.0
67.2
VITA-Bench
41.8
43.0
29.1
36.9
35.6
DeepPlanning
22.6
24.0
22.8
16.2
25.9
Tool Decathlon
31.5
21.2
28.7
12.0
26.9
MCPMark
36.3
18.1
27.0
14.2
37.0
MCP-Atlas
68.4
57.2
62.4
50.0
62.8
WideSearch
66.4
35.2
59.1
38.3
60.1
Knowledge
MMLU-Pro
86.1
85.2
85.3
82.6
85.2
MMLU-Redux
93.2
93.7
93.3
92.7
93.3
SuperGPQA
65.6
65.7
63.4
61.4
64.7
C-Eval
90.5
82.6
90.2
82.5
90.0
STEM & Reasoning
GPQA
85.5
84.3
84.2
82.3
86.0
HLE
24.3
19.5
22.4
8.7
21.4
LiveCodeBench v6
80.7
80.0
74.6
77.1
80.4
HMMT Feb 25
92.0
88.7
89.0
91.7
90.7
HMMT Nov 25
89.8
87.5
89.2
87.5
89.1
HMMT Feb 26
84.3
77.2
78.7
79.0
83.6
IMOAnswerBench
79.9
74.5
76.8
74.3
78.9
AIME26
92.6
89.2
91.0
88.3
92.7
* SWE-Bench Series: Internal agent scaffold (bash + file-edit tools); temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, 200K context window. We correct some problematic tasks in the public set of SWE-bench Pro and evaluate all baselines on the refined benchmark. * Terminal-Bench 2.0: Harbor/Terminus-2 harness; 3h timeout, 32 CPU/48 GB RAM; temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, max_tokens=80K, 256K ctx; avg of 5 runs. * SkillsBench: Evaluated via OpenCode on 78 tasks (self-contained subset, excluding API-dependent tasks); avg of 5 runs. * NL2Repo: Others are evaluated via Claude Code (temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, max_turns=900). * QwenClawBench: An internal real-user-distribution Claw agent benchmark (open-sourcing soon); temp=0.6, 256K ctx. * QwenWebBench: An internal front-end code generation benchmark; bilingual (EN/CN), 7 categories (Web Design, Web Apps, Games, SVG, Data Visualization, Animation, and 3D); auto-render + multimodal judge (code/visual correctness); BT/Elo rating system. * TAU3-Bench: We use the official user model (gpt-5.2, low reasoning effort) + default BM25 retrieval. * VITA-Bench: Avg subdomain scores; using claude-4-sonnet as judger, as the official judger (claude-3.7-sonnet) is no longer available. * MCPMark: GitHub MCP v0.30.3; Playwright responses truncated at 32K tokens. * MCP-Atlas: Public set score; gemini-2.5-pro judger. * AIME 26: We use the full AIME 2026 (I & II), where the scores may differ from Qwen 3.5 notes.
Qwen3.6 is natively multimodal, and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B showcases perception and multimodal reasoning capabilities that far exceed what its size would suggest, with only around 3 billion activated parameters. Across most vision-language benchmarks, its performance matches Claude Sonnet 4.5, and even surpasses it on several tasks. Its strengths are particularly evident in spatial intelligence, where it achieves 92.0 on RefCOCO and 50.8 on ODInW13.
Qwen3.5-27B
Claude-Sonnet-4.5
Gemma4-31B
Gemma4-26BA4B
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
STEM and Puzzle
MMMU
82.3
79.6
80.4
78.4
81.4
81.7
MMMU-Pro
75.0
68.4
76.9*
73.8*
75.1
75.3
Mathvista(mini)
87.8
79.8
79.3
79.4
86.2
86.4
ZEROBench_sub
36.2
26.3
26.0
26.3
34.1
34.4
General VQA
RealWorldQA
83.7
70.3
72.3
72.2
84.1
85.3
MMBenchEN-DEV-v1.1
92.6
88.3
90.9
89.0
91.5
92.8
SimpleVQA
56.0
57.6
52.9
52.2
58.3
58.9
HallusionBench
70.0
59.9
67.4
66.1
67.9
69.8
Text Recognition and Document Understanding
OmniDocBench1.5
88.9
85.8
80.1
74.4
89.3
89.9
CharXiv(RQ)
79.5
67.2
67.9
69.0
77.5
78.0
CC-OCR
81.0
68.1
75.7
74.5
80.7
81.9
AI2D_TEST
92.9
87.0
89.0
88.3
92.6
92.7
Spatial Intelligence
RefCOCO(avg)
90.9
--
--
--
89.2
92.0
ODInW13
41.1
--
--
--
42.6
50.8
EmbSpatialBench
84.5
71.8
--
--
83.1
84.3
RefSpatialBench
67.7
--
--
--
63.5
64.3
Video Understanding
VideoMME(w sub.)
87.0
81.1
--
--
86.6
86.6
VideoMME(w/o sub.)
82.8
75.3
--
--
82.5
82.5
VideoMMMU
82.3
77.6
81.6
76.0
80.4
83.7
MLVU
85.9
72.8
--
--
85.6
86.2
MVBench
74.6
--
--
--
74.8
74.6
LVBench
73.6
--
--
--
71.4
71.4
* Empty cells (--) indicate scores not available or not applicable.
The model can be seamlessly integrated with popular third-party coding assistants, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Qwen Code, to streamline development workflows and enable efficient, context-aware coding experiences.
This release supports the preserve_thinking feature: preserving thinking content from all preceding turns in messages, which is recommended for agentic tasks.
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio supports industry-standard protocols, including chat completions and responses APIs compatible with OpenAI’s specification, as well as an API interface compatible with Anthropic.
Example code for chat completions API is provided below:
"""\nEnvironment variables (per official docs):\n DASHSCOPE_API_KEY: Your API Key from https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com\n DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL: (optional) Base URL for compatible-mode API.\n - Beijing: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - Singapore: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - US (Virginia): https://dashscope-us.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n DASHSCOPE_MODEL: (optional) Model name; override for different models.\n"""\nfromopenaiimportOpenAI\nimportos\n\napi_key=os.environ.get("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\nifnotapi_key:\nraiseValueError(\n"DASHSCOPE_API_KEY is required. "\n"Set it via: export DASHSCOPE_API_KEY='your-api-key'"\n)\n\nclient=OpenAI(\napi_key=api_key,\nbase_url=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL",\n"https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",\n),\n)\n\nmessages=[{"role":"user","content":"Introduce vibe coding."}]\n\nmodel=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_MODEL",\n"qwen3.6-flash",\n)\ncompletion=client.chat.completions.create(\nmodel=model,\nmessages=messages,\nextra_body={\n"enable_thinking":True,\n# "preserve_thinking": True,\n},\nstream=True\n)\n\nreasoning_content=""# Full reasoning trace\nanswer_content=""# Full response\nis_answering=False# Whether we have entered the answer phase\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Reasoning"+"="*20+"\\n")\n\nforchunkincompletion:\nifnotchunk.choices:\nprint("\\nUsage:")\nprint(chunk.usage)\ncontinue\n\ndelta=chunk.choices[0].delta\n\n# Collect reasoning content only\nifhasattr(delta,"reasoning_content")anddelta.reasoning_contentisnotNone:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint(delta.reasoning_content,end="",flush=True)\nreasoning_content+=delta.reasoning_content\n\n# Received content, start answer phase\nifhasattr(delta,"content")anddelta.content:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Answer"+"="*20+"\\n")\nis_answering=True\nprint(delta.content,end="",flush=True)\nanswer_content+=delta.content\n
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B features excellent agentic coding capabilities and can be seamlessly integrated into popular third-party coding assistants, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Qwen Code.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is compatible with OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot / Clawdbot), a self-hosted open-source AI coding agent.\nConnect it to Model Studio to get a full agentic coding experience in the terminal.\nGet started with the following script:
# Node.js 22+\ncurl -fsSL https://molt.bot/install.sh | bash # macOS / Linux\n\n# Set your API key\nexportDASHSCOPE_API_KEY=<your_api_key>\n\n# Launch OpenClaw\nopenclaw dashboard # web browser\n# openclaw tui # Open a new terminal and start the TUI\n
On first use, edit ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json to point OpenClaw at Model Studio.\nFind or create the following fields and merge them — do not overwrite the entire file\nto preserve your existing settings:
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is compatible with Qwen Code, an open-source AI agent designed for the terminal and deeply optimized for the Qwen Series. Get started with the following script:
# Node.js 20+\nnpm install -g @qwen-code/qwen-code@latest\n\n# Start Qwen Code (interactive)\nqwen\n\n# Then, in the session:\n/help\n/auth\n
On first use, you’ll be prompted to sign in. You can run /auth anytime to switch authentication methods.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B demonstrates that sparse MoE models can achieve remarkable agentic coding and reasoning capability. With only 3B active parameters, it delivers performance that rivals dense models several times its active size, while also excelling across multimodal benchmarks. As a fully open-source checkpoint, it sets a new standard for what’s possible at its scale.
Looking ahead, we will continue to expand the Qwen3.6 open-source family and push the boundaries of what efficient, open models can accomplish. We are grateful for the community’s feedback and look forward to seeing what you build with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. Also, Qwen3.6 open-source family keeps expanding, stay tuned for our future releases!
Feel free to cite the following article if you find Qwen3.6-35B-A3B helpful:
@misc{qwen36_35b_a3b,\ntitle={{Qwen3.6-35B-A3B}: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All},\nurl={https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b},\nauthor={{Qwen Team}},\nmonth={April},\nyear={2026}\n}\n
\n","path":"qwen3.6-35b-a3b","language":"en-US","extra":{"git_url":"https://code.alibaba-inc.com/DamoAGI/qwen-blog/tree/qwen_ai/content/blog/qwen3.6-35b-a3b","description":"","introduction":"Following the launch of Qwen3.6-Plus, we are excited to open-source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B — a sparse yet remarkably capable mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 35 billion total parameters and only 3 billion active parameters. Despite its efficiency, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B delivers outstanding agentic coding performance, surpassing its predecessor Qwen3.5-35B-A3B by a wide margin and rivaling much larger dense","tags":["Open-Source"],"cover_small":"https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i3/O1CN01cL6tG71xn6PgeRuj6_!!6000000006487-2-tps-1590-954.png","date":"2026-04-15T10:00:00+08:00","author":"QwenTeam","readTime":22,"wordCount":4323}},{"id":"8e98ee65-9e60-4c9b-a688-fc150e3dab2a","type":"qwen_ai","title":"Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model","content":"Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model | Qwen\n
Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Following the launch of Qwen3.6-Plus and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, we are excited to open-source Qwen3.6-27B — a dense 27-billion-parameter multimodal model at the scale the community has been asking for most. Still supporting both multimodal thinking and non-thinking modes, Qwen3.6-27B delivers flagship-level agentic coding performance, surpassing the previous-generation open-source flagship Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (397B total / 17B active MoE) across all major coding benchmarks. As a dense architecture, it is straightforward to deploy without MoE routing complexity, making it an ideal choice for developers who need top-tier coding capabilities at a practical, widely-deployable scale. Qwen3.6-27B is now live on Qwen Studio, available through our API, and released as open weights for the community.
Qwen3.6-27B is a fully open-source dense model (27B parameters), featuring:
flagship-level agentic coding that surpasses Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Below we present comprehensive evaluations of Qwen3.6-27B against both dense and MoE baselines, including our previous-generation open-source flagship Qwen3.5-397B-A17B. Qwen3.6-27B delivers remarkable improvements across agentic coding benchmarks, surpassing models with up to 15x its total parameter count.
Qwen3.6-27B achieves a breakthrough in agentic coding for dense models. With only 27B parameters, it outperforms the Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (397B total / 17B active) on every major coding benchmark — including SWE-bench Verified (77.2 vs. 76.2), SWE-bench Pro (53.5 vs. 50.9), Terminal-Bench 2.0 (59.3 vs. 52.5), and SkillsBench (48.2 vs. 30.0). It also surpasses all peer-scale dense models by a wide margin. On reasoning tasks, Qwen3.6-27B achieves 87.8 on GPQA Diamond, competitive with models several times its size.
Qwen3.5-27B
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Gemma4-31B
Claude 4.5 Opus
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Qwen3.6-27B
Coding Agent
SWE-bench Verified
75.0
76.2
52.0
80.9
73.4
77.2
SWE-bench Pro
51.2
50.9
35.7
57.1
49.5
53.5
SWE-bench Multilingual
69.3
69.3
51.7
77.5
67.2
71.3
Terminal-Bench 2.0
41.6
52.5
42.9
59.3
51.5
59.3
SkillsBench Avg5
27.2
30.0
23.6
45.3
28.7
48.2
QwenWebBench
1068
1186
1197
1536
1397
1487
NL2Repo
27.3
32.2
15.5
43.2
29.4
36.2
Claw-Eval Avg
64.3
70.7
48.5
76.6
68.7
72.4
Claw-Eval Pass^3
46.2
48.1
25.0
59.6
50.0
60.6
QwenClawBench
52.2
51.8
41.7
52.3
52.6
53.4
Knowledge
MMLU-Pro
86.1
87.8
85.2
89.5
85.2
86.2
MMLU-Redux
93.2
94.9
93.7
95.6
93.3
93.5
SuperGPQA
65.6
70.4
65.7
70.6
64.7
66.0
C-Eval
90.5
93.0
82.6
92.2
90.0
91.4
STEM & Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
85.5
88.4
84.3
87.0
86.0
87.8
HLE
24.3
28.7
19.5
30.8
21.4
24.0
LiveCodeBench v6
80.7
83.6
80.0
84.8
80.4
83.9
HMMT Feb 25
92.0
94.8
88.7
92.9
90.7
93.8
HMMT Nov 25
89.8
92.7
87.5
93.3
89.1
90.7
HMMT Feb 26
84.3
87.9
77.2
85.3
83.6
84.3
IMOAnswerBench
79.9
80.9
74.5
84.0
78.9
80.8
AIME26
92.6
93.3
89.2
95.1
92.7
94.1
* SWE-Bench Series: Internal agent scaffold (bash + file-edit tools); temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, 200K context window. We correct some problematic tasks in the public set of SWE-bench Pro and evaluate all baselines on the refined benchmark. * Terminal-Bench 2.0: Harbor/Terminus-2 harness; 3h timeout, 32 CPU/48 GB RAM; temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, max_tokens=80K, 256K ctx; avg of 5 runs. * SkillsBench: Evaluated via OpenCode on 78 tasks (self-contained subset, excluding API-dependent tasks); avg of 5 runs. * NL2Repo: Others are evaluated via Claude Code (temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, max_turns=900). * QwenClawBench: A real-user-distribution Claw agent benchmark; temp=0.6, 256K ctx. * QwenWebBench: An internal front-end code generation benchmark; bilingual (EN/CN), 7 categories (Web Design, Web Apps, Games, SVG, Data Visualization, Animation, and 3D); auto-render + multimodal judge (code/visual correctness); BT/Elo rating system. * AIME 26: We use the full AIME 2026 (I & II), where the scores may differ from Qwen 3.5 notes.
Qwen3.6-27B is natively multimodal, supporting both vision-language thinking and non-thinking modes in a single unified checkpoint — the same as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. It handles images and video alongside text, enabling multimodal reasoning, document understanding, and visual question answering.
Qwen3.5-27B
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Gemma4-31B
Claude 4.5 Opus
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Qwen3.6-27B
STEM & Puzzle
MMMU
82.3
85.0
80.4
80.7
81.7
82.9
MMMU-Pro
75.0
79.0
76.9
70.6
75.3
75.8
MathVista mini
87.8
--
79.3
--
86.4
87.4
DynaMath
87.7
86.3
79.5
79.7
82.8
85.6
VlmsAreBlind
96.9
--
87.2
--
96.6
97.0
General VQA
RealWorldQA
83.7
83.9
72.3
77.0
85.3
84.1
MMStar
81.0
83.8
77.3
73.2
80.7
81.4
MMBenchEN-DEV-v1.1
92.6
--
90.9
--
92.8
92.3
SimpleVQA
56.0
67.1
52.9
65.7
58.9
56.1
Document Understanding
CharXiv RQ
79.5
80.8
67.9
68.5
78.0
78.4
CC-OCR
81.0
82.0
75.7
76.9
81.9
81.2
OCRBench
89.4
--
86.1
--
90.0
89.4
Spatial Intelligence
ERQA
60.5
67.5
57.5
46.8
61.8
62.5
CountBench
97.8
97.2
96.1
90.6
96.1
97.8
RefCOCO avg
90.9
92.3
--
--
92.0
92.5
EmbSpatialBench
84.5
--
--
--
84.3
84.6
RefSpatialBench
67.7
--
4.7
--
64.3
70.0
Video Understanding
VideoMME(w sub.)
87.0
87.5
--
77.7
86.6
87.7
VideoMMMU
82.3
84.7
81.6
84.4
83.7
84.4
MLVU
85.9
86.7
--
81.7
86.2
86.6
MVBench
74.6
77.6
--
67.2
74.6
75.5
Visual Agent
V*
93.7
95.8
--
67.0
90.1
94.7
AndroidWorld
64.2
--
--
--
--
70.3
* Empty cells (--) indicate scores not yet available or not applicable.
The model can be seamlessly integrated with popular third-party coding assistants, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Qwen Code, to streamline development workflows and enable efficient, context-aware coding experiences.
This release supports the preserve_thinking feature: preserving thinking content from all preceding turns in messages, which is recommended for agentic tasks.
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio supports industry-standard protocols, including chat completions and responses APIs compatible with OpenAI’s specification, as well as an API interface compatible with Anthropic.
Example code for chat completions API is provided below:
"""\nEnvironment variables (per official docs):\n DASHSCOPE_API_KEY: Your API Key from https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com\n DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL: (optional) Base URL for compatible-mode API.\n - Beijing: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - Singapore: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - US (Virginia): https://dashscope-us.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n DASHSCOPE_MODEL: (optional) Model name; override for different models.\n"""\nfromopenaiimportOpenAI\nimportos\n\napi_key=os.environ.get("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\nifnotapi_key:\nraiseValueError(\n"DASHSCOPE_API_KEY is required. "\n"Set it via: export DASHSCOPE_API_KEY='your-api-key'"\n)\n\nclient=OpenAI(\napi_key=api_key,\nbase_url=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL",\n"https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",\n),\n)\n\nmessages=[{"role":"user","content":"Introduce vibe coding."}]\n\nmodel=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_MODEL",\n"qwen3.6-27b",\n)\ncompletion=client.chat.completions.create(\nmodel=model,\nmessages=messages,\nextra_body={\n"enable_thinking":True,\n# "preserve_thinking": True,\n},\nstream=True\n)\n\nreasoning_content=""# Full reasoning trace\nanswer_content=""# Full response\nis_answering=False# Whether we have entered the answer phase\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Reasoning"+"="*20+"\\n")\n\nforchunkincompletion:\nifnotchunk.choices:\nprint("\\nUsage:")\nprint(chunk.usage)\ncontinue\n\ndelta=chunk.choices[0].delta\n\n# Collect reasoning content only\nifhasattr(delta,"reasoning_content")anddelta.reasoning_contentisnotNone:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint(delta.reasoning_content,end="",flush=True)\nreasoning_content+=delta.reasoning_content\n\n# Received content, start answer phase\nifhasattr(delta,"content")anddelta.content:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Answer"+"="*20+"\\n")\nis_answering=True\nprint(delta.content,end="",flush=True)\nanswer_content+=delta.content\n
Qwen3.6-27B features excellent agentic coding capabilities and can be seamlessly integrated into popular third-party coding assistants, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Qwen Code.
Qwen3.6-27B is compatible with OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot / Clawdbot), a self-hosted open-source AI coding agent.\nConnect it to Model Studio to get a full agentic coding experience in the terminal.\nGet started with the following script:
# Node.js 22+\ncurl -fsSL https://molt.bot/install.sh | bash # macOS / Linux\n\n# Set your API key\nexportDASHSCOPE_API_KEY=<your_api_key>\n\n# Launch OpenClaw\nopenclaw dashboard # web browser\n# openclaw tui # Open a new terminal and start the TUI\n
On first use, edit ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json to point OpenClaw at Model Studio.\nFind or create the following fields and merge them — do not overwrite the entire file\nto preserve your existing settings:
Qwen3.6-27B is compatible with Qwen Code, an open-source AI agent designed for the terminal and deeply optimized for the Qwen Series. Get started with the following script:
# Node.js 20+\nnpm install -g @qwen-code/qwen-code@latest\n\n# Start Qwen Code (interactive)\nqwen\n\n# Then, in the session:\n/help\n/auth\n
On first use, you’ll be prompted to sign in. You can run /auth anytime to switch authentication methods.
Qwen3.6-27B demonstrates that a well-trained dense model can surpass much larger predecessors on the tasks that matter most for developers. At 27 billion parameters — the most widely deployed open-source scale — it outperforms the 397B-parameter Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on every major agentic coding benchmark, while remaining straightforward to deploy and serve. With Qwen3.6-27B joining the roster, the Qwen3.6 open-source family now offers a comprehensive range of models, underscoring a generation where agentic coding achieved breakthroughs across every scale — from the 3B-active Qwen3.6-35B-A3B to the API-accessible Qwen3.6-Plus and Qwen3.6-Max-Preview. We are grateful for the community’s feedback and look forward to seeing what you build with these models. Stay tuned for more from the Qwen team!
Feel free to cite the following article if you find Qwen3.6-27B helpful:
@misc{qwen36_27b,\ntitle={{Qwen3.6-27B}: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model},\nurl={https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b},\nauthor={{Qwen Team}},\nmonth={April},\nyear={2026}\n}\n
\n","path":"qwen3.6-27b","language":"en-US","extra":{"git_url":"https://code.alibaba-inc.com/DamoAGI/qwen-blog/blob/qwen_ai/content/blog/qwen3.6-27b","description":"","introduction":"Following the launch of Qwen3.6-Plus and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, we are excited to open-source Qwen3.6-27B — a dense 27-billion-parameter multimodal model at the scale the community has been asking for most. Still supporting both multimodal thinking and non-thinking modes, Qwen3.6-27B delivers flagship-level agentic coding performance, surpassing the previous-generation open-source flagship Qwen3.5-397B-","tags":["Open-Source"],"cover_small":"https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i2/O1CN01pnefgf1o0FcxKA3uu_!!6000000005162-2-tps-1590-954.png","date":"2026-04-22T10:00:00+08:00","author":"QwenTeam","readTime":21,"wordCount":4226}},{"id":"627eb92d-7101-4c12-b701-aedce87c2a09","type":"qwen_ai","title":"FlashQLA: CP-/Bwd-Friendly Fused Linear Attention Kernels for GDN","content":"FlashQLA: CP-/Bwd-Friendly Fused Linear Attention Kernels for GDN | Qwen\n
FlashQLA: CP-/Bwd-Friendly Fused Linear Attention Kernels for GDN
Following the release of Qwen3-Next, Gated Delta Network (GDN) has become the workhorse attention layer across the Qwen family — from Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B all the way to the subsequent Qwen3.5 / Qwen3.6 series. As models scale to 397A17B / 122A10B / 35B / 27B and context windows stretch beyond 256K, the overhead of the GDN block in end-to-end training and inference has become non-negligible.
Today we officially open-source FlashQLA: a high-performance linear attention kernel library built on TileLang. FlashQLA applies reasonable operator fusion and performance optimization to the forward and backward passes of GDN Chunked Prefill, achieving 2-3× forward speedup and 2× backward speedup over the FLA Triton kernel across multiple scenarios on NVIDIA Hopper. The efficiency gains are particularly pronounced in pretraining scenarios and edge-side agentic inference.
Key highlights of this release:
Gate-driven automatic intra-card context parallelism. By exploiting the exponential decay property of the GDN gate, FlashQLA automatically enables intra-card CP under TP, long-sequence, and small-head-count settings, improving GPU SM utilization.
Hardware-friendly algebraic reformulation. We reformulate the forward and backward flows of GDN Chunked Prefill to a certain extent, effectively reducing Tensor Core, CUDA Core, and SFU overhead without sacrificing numerical precision.
TileLang fused warp-specialized kernels. Rather than following the step-by-step decomposition into independent kernels, nor fusing the entire computation flow into a single kernel, we take CP and backward requirements into account, use TileLang to build several key fused kernels, and manually implement warpgroup specialization to overlap data movement, Tensor Core computation, and CUDA Core computation.
Ignoring gate preprocessing and CP, each step of this flow corresponds to one kernel in FLA. This flow has two main efficiency problems:
Most of the above are memory-bound kernels. The flow repeatedly reads $K$, $V$ and other data, while $W$, $U$, $S$ as intermediate variables must be written to HBM and then read by the next kernel, incurring significant memory access overhead.
The recurrent nature of the SSM state means that the corresponding third step chunk_gated_delta_rule_fwd_kernel can only launch batch_size * num_heads thread blocks simultaneously, resulting in low GPU utilization in small-model, small-batch, or TP scenarios.
The solutions to these two problems are contradictory. For the first problem, the most intuitive solution is to write a fully-fused kernel, where all data is accessed only once and all intermediate variables are kept on-chip. When batch_size * num_heads is large enough, this is certainly optimal. However, such a solution obviously runs into the second problem: for edge-side inference with small models and batch_size=1, or for large-model online deployments with TP where long-sequence inputs from coding agents etc. cannot launch a large enough batch for chunked prefill, the speedup of a fully-fused kernel over the original FLA implementation is limited.
The earliest solution to the second problem comes from how DeltaNet does context parallelism, which splits a long sequence into multiple sub-sequences, uses $S_0=0$ to parallelize the recurrence, and then computes an additional $M$ matrix to correct the recurrent results. This scheme was later optimized to insert a step before the recurrence kernel to compute the $S_0$ of each sub-sequence, and has now been merged into the FLA repository. For CP rank $j$, the specific preprocessing flow is:
However, this CP scheme also has its drawbacks: first, it introduces significant extra computation, with the time complexity of recurrently computing the $M$ matrix even exceeding that of the $S$ matrix; second, it does not work well with fully-fused kernels, because matrix inversion and other steps must be performed before the $S_0$ of each sub-sequence can be computed.
A Balanced Solution: Fusing Kernels While Enabling Intra-Card CP#
Based on the two problems above, a compromise solution can be derived: split the GDN Chunked Prefill forward computation into two fused kernels, inserting CP-related preprocessing steps between them. After some transformations and simplifications, the following computation flow is obtained:
We also designed a simple mathematical model to automatically determine the degree of parallelism. Let $N$ be the number of chunks in a sequence and $L$ be the number of chunks per CP rank. It is easy to see that the runtime of steps 2.1 and 3 is proportional to $L$, while the runtime of step 2.2 is proportional to $\\frac NL$; therefore we can choose $L=\\lambda \\sqrt N$ to minimize total time, where $\\lambda$ is a coefficient composed of batch_size, num_heads, and other hyperparameters.
In production, intra-card CP is not always needed. Following the original FLA implementation, step 3 can also increase parallelism by 2-4× via splitting v_head_dim, at the cost of redundant memory access to Q and K. Based on measured data, we enable CP only when batch_size * num_heads <= 40 or batch_size * num_heads <= 56 && seq_len >= 8192.
For $\\alpha_i\\in(0,1)$, the influence of each $S_i$ on subsequent states decays exponentially, giving it a sliding-window property. For a sufficiently long window size of $W$, starting computation from $S_{i-W}=0$ can obtain the accurate $S_i$, without the need to start from $S_0$. We refer to this process as warmup. On real data, we find that $\\alpha_i$ is not constantly 1 on 60–80% of linear attention heads, and 6–8 chunks of warmup are sufficient to drive the $S_i$ error below the noise floor.
Therefore, for linear attention heads with the sliding-window property, we can design a lighter CP preprocessing flow that discards the computation of the correction term $M$ and directly obtains an equally accurate sub-sequence $S_0$ through warmup:
C0
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
C9
C10
C11
C12
R1
O
O
O
O
O
R2
X
X
O
O
O
O
R3
X
X
O
O
O
O
X denotes warming up with a zero initial state until the gate has decayed sufficiently, then writing out the $S_0$ of that CP rank; O denotes subsequent normal recurrent computation. The warmup length for each rank is determined by an independent kernel that collects gate statistics, and the cost of this step is negligible.
We implement FlashQLA in TileLang using a warpgroup-specialization pattern: one producer warpgroup and three consumer warpgroups reside in the same SM, exchange data through shared memory, and synchronize via mbarriers.
In the forward pass, the three consumer warp groups compute $V’$, $S$, and $O$ respectively, overlapping computation and memory traffic through a ping-pong structure.
As mentioned earlier, the CP preprocessing splits into two cases: the original approach (computing both $M$ and $S$) and the sliding-window approach (computing only $S$). We designed a single fused kernel that handles both:
WG3
WG2
WG1
WG0
WG3/0
WG3/1
WG3/2
BAR 0
LD$K$
LD$\\gamma$
$\\gamma_{C-1}\\gamma^{-1}$
TC$X = A^\\intercal K$
BAR 1
LD$V$
LD$\\beta$
ST$S_i$
TC$U = K S_i$ $Y = -\\gamma_{C-1}\\gamma^{-1} V + \\gamma_{C-1} U$
$X = -\\beta X$
$S_{i+1} = \\gamma_{C-1} S_i$
BAR 2
LD$A$
$\\gamma^\\pi = \\gamma^\\pi \\gamma_{C-1}$
$\\gamma^\\pi = \\gamma^\\pi \\gamma_{C-1}$
TC$S_{i+1} = S_{i+1} + X^\\intercal Y$
BAR 3
TC$Z^L = K M^L$ TC$M^L = M^L + X^\\intercal Z^L$
TC$Z^R = K M^R$ TC$M^R = M^R + X^\\intercal Z^R$
Notes:
The last two steps of WG1 and WG2 correspond to the $M$ matrix computation and are triggered only when required.
$S$ is output per chunk only during backward recomputation.
In the backward pass, we reuse the CP preprocessing kernel from the previous section to recompute the $S$ matrix, then fuse bwd_dv, bwd_dhu, bwd_dqkwg, bwd_wy into a single kernel with corresponding algebraic optimizations. Because of on-chip resource constraints, the backward kernel does not use multi-stage pipelining; instead it relies on the long compute chain to hide memory traffic. The full schedule is available in the FlashQLA repo.
We benchmarked FlashQLA against the FLA Triton and FlashInfer baseline (FLA 0.5.0, Triton 3.5.1, FlashInfer 0.6.9, TileLang 0.1.8) on the head configurations used by the Qwen3.5 / Qwen3.6 family — $h_v \\in {64, 48, 32, 24, 16, 8}$, corresponding to TP1 through TP8.
Specifically, the forward (FWD) benchmarks measure single-kernel latency for different models and TP settings under varying batch lengths, while the backward (BWD) benchmarks examine the relationship between total token count within a batch and latency during a single update step.
Selected H200 single-layer forward results:
Model / TP
Seqlen
$h_{qk}$
$h_v$
FlashQLA
FlashInfer
FLA
vs FLA
vs FI
397B/122B TP8
1x32768
2
8
0.310ms
1.653ms
0.913ms
2.95×
5.33×
397B/122B TP8
1x16384
2
8
0.184ms
0.833ms
0.465ms
2.53×
4.53×
397B/122B TP8
24576+8192
2
8
0.302ms
1.242ms
0.767ms
2.54×
4.11×
397B/122B TP4
1x32768
4
16
0.486ms
1.654ms
1.250ms
2.57×
3.40×
397B/122B TP4
1x16384
4
16
0.292ms
0.832ms
0.623ms
2.13×
2.85×
27B TP2
1x32768
8
24
0.659ms
1.616ms
1.564ms
2.37×
2.45×
2B/0.8B TP1
1x32768
16
16
0.493ms
1.640ms
1.285ms
2.60×
3.33×
Sym h32
1x32768
32
32
0.877ms
1.554ms
1.952ms
2.23×
1.77×
The speedup grows with TP degree because FlashQLA improves SM utilization via intra-card AutoCP in the exact regimes — TP sharding and small head number — where the baseline leaves SMs idle.
If FlashQLA is useful for your research, please cite:
@misc{flashqla2026,\ntitle={FlashQLA: Flash Qwen Linear Attention},\nauthor={Zhang, Chengruidong and Lin, Xi and Jiang, Huiqiang and Wang, Zekun and\n Li, Xiao and Cao, Yizhong and Zhuang, Bohan and Men, Rui and Zhang, Jianwei and\n Zheng, Bo and Lin, Junyang and Liu, Dayiheng and Zhou, Jingren},\nyear={2026},\npublisher={GitHub},\nhowpublished={\\url{https://github.com/QwenLM/FlashQLA}}\n}\n
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Interpretability research has emerged as a critical area for understanding LLM behaviors, informing performance optimization, and enabling more controllable model outputs. Today, we are excited to introduce Qwen-Scope, an interpretability toolkit trained on the Qwen3 and Qwen3.5 series models. Specifically, we inserted and trained Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) within Qwen’s hidden layers. By imposing sparsity constraints, SAEs decompose the model’s dense hidden representations into sparse, disentangled, and interpretable features. Qwen-Scope not only sheds light on the internal mechanisms underlying Qwen’s behavior, but also holds potential for model optimization. Application scenarios include controllable inference, data classification and synthesis, model training and optimization, and evaluation sample distribution analysis.
Core Highlights about Qwen-Scope：
Inference: Enables targeted control over inference outcomes without requiring explicit natural language instructions.
Data: Requires only a small amount of seed data to collect features for data classification, significantly reducing data dependency. Additionally, it can leverage inactive feature information to construct targeted data, thereby enhancing long-tail capabilities.
Training: Identifies abnormally activated features by analyzing low-quality issues such as code-switching and repetitive generation. This assists in model training during supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) stages, effectively reducing the frequency of such undesirable responses.
Evaluation: Calculates feature activation patterns across different samples or benchmark datasets to jointly assess evaluation redundancy. This guides the selection of benchmarks, improves coverage of evaluated capabilities, and reduces evaluation costs.
The weights released in this Qwen-Scope open-source project involve 7 LLMs, covering both dense and MoE models from the Qwen3 and Qwen3.5 series, with a total of 14 sets of SAEs.\nTo ensure broad feature coverage, strong semantic meaningfulness, and stable training, we sampled 0.5B tokens from the pretraining data of the corresponding models to train our SAEs.
Qwen-Scope facilitates the analysis and development of Qwen series models. This section showcases its utility across four dimensions: inference, evaluation, data, and training. Please refer to our technical report for more details.
Inference: Analysis of Model Behavior and Controllable Outputs#
By controlling the activation of features, we can achieve targeted control over inference results, such as directed modifications in language, entities, or style, without explicitly providing natural language instructions.
Qwen-Scope performs multi-dimensional analysis and summarization of model representations, enabling its use as a data labeling and classification tool that offers insights into data processing strategies and characterizes data properties.\nTaking toxic text as an example, we can use seed data to select highly relevant features for sample classification based on the activation states across all features. This process requires no additional training procedures, greatly saving annotation time. Moreover, high classification accuracy can be achieved with only a small amount of data, significantly reducing dependence on large volumes of bootstrapping data.
In data synthesis scenarios, Qwen-Scope can also help identify toxic text features in existing data that have been rarely or never activated, and directionally synthesize supplementary samples. Compared to traditional data synthesis approaches, this method offers stronger controllability and targeting capability, enabling more efficient coverage of long-tail capabilities and improving the training data efficiency ratio by approximately 15 times.
The features identified by Qwen-Scope can also be leveraged during the training phase. For instance, when we observe unexpected language mixing in model outputs (e.g., unexpected Chinese words appearing in English responses), we can pinpoint the anomalous activation patterns associated with this issue. During supervised fine-tuning, we then design a loss function specifically targeting these abnormal activations to guide the model in reducing the frequency of such undesirable cases.
Another example is the problem of endless repetitive generation, which occurs infrequently and is therefore rarely sampled during reinforcement learning. To address this, we can amplify or highlight the corresponding anomalous activation features, thereby increasing the likelihood of sampling these bad cases. This enables the model to more effectively optimize against repetition issues during the reinforcement learning stage.
Evaluation: Addressing Redundancy and Gaps in Test Samples#
Evaluation is one of the core aspects of large language model development. As the number of capabilities and dimensions to be evaluated continues to grow, along with increasingly large sample sizes, a key question arises: which evaluation datasets contain redundancies and which domains have insufficient coverage. Through Qwen-Scope, we can analyze the feature coverage of test sets to assess the degree of evaluation redundancy across different benchmark datasets. As shown in the figure below, we found that some commonly used evaluation datasets exhibit overlapping coverage in their activated features, causing certain benchmarks to be affected by repetitive evaluation and thus having relatively lower practical significance. We hope that this type of analytical approach can help users conveniently select test samples and evaluation datasets with higher coverage and lower evaluation costs.
Qwen-Scope is not only a tool for analyzing model behavior, but also enables deep introspection into the internal workings of models, transforming complex parameter computations into human-understandable concepts and patterns.\nIt does more than just “interpret” models—it can actively “improve” them. Empirical results demonstrate that Qwen-Scope provides valuable insights and guidance for model optimization across various stages, including inference, evaluation, data processing, and training. Interpretability is thus not merely a post-hoc analytical tool, but can serve as one of the core engines driving model evolution.\nWe welcome feedback from the community and eagerly look forward to seeing your creativity in action—showcasing even more innovative and interesting use cases!
If you think Qwen-Scope offers you any help, feel free to cite.
@misc{qwen_scope,\ntitle={{Qwen-Scope}: Turning Sparse Features into Development Tools for Large Language Models},\nauthor={Boyi Deng and Xu Wang and Yaoning Wang and Yu Wan and Yubo Ma and Baosong Yang and Haoran Wei and Jialong Tang and Huan Lin and Ruize Gao and Tianhao Li and Qian Cao and Xuancheng Ren and Xiaodong Deng and An Yang and Fei Huang and Dayiheng Liu and Jingren Zhou},\nyear={2026},\neprint={2605.11887},\narchivePrefix={arXiv},\nprimaryClass={cs.CL},\nurl={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11887},\n}\n
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Qwen-VLA: From Understanding the World to Acting in It
Over the past few years, multimodal large language models have become increasingly capable of understanding images, videos, and real-world scenes. They can recognize objects, reason about spatial relationships, answer visual questions, and solve complex multimodal reasoning tasks.
But for embodied intelligence, understanding the world is only the first step. A truly embodied agent also needs to understand task goals, take actions in the physical world, and generalize across different robot embodiments, environments, and tasks.
This is the motivation behind Qwen-VLA.
Qwen-VLA is a general-purpose Vision-Language-Action model. Built upon the Qwen multimodal backbone, it extends visual perception, language understanding, and spatial reasoning into continuous action generation and trajectory prediction. In other words, it allows the model to not only see and think, but also begin to act.
Traditional embodied AI systems are often highly specialized: one model for tabletop manipulation, another for navigation, and yet another for a specific robot platform. This approach can work well for individual tasks, but it does not scale easily to broader tasks, diverse environments, or different robot embodiments.
Qwen-VLA explores a more unified direction:
Can a single generalist policy model support robotic manipulation, vision-language navigation, and cross-embodiment control at the same time?
In Qwen-VLA, robotic manipulation and vision-language navigation are formulated under the same framework: given visual observations, language instructions, and embodiment-specific conditions, the model predicts the next action or trajectory. The Qwen multimodal backbone understands the visual and language inputs, while an action decoder generates continuous actions.
Training: From Language Priors to Closed-Loop Control#
The core of Qwen-VLA is not simply attaching an action head to a multimodal model. More importantly, it builds a joint training system that covers diverse tasks, environments, and robot embodiments. The full training pipeline progresses through four stages, from language priors to closed-loop control.
Robot manipulation trajectories form the foundation, covering tabletop, mobile, dual-arm, and dexterous manipulation. The public data totals over 10,000 hours, supplemented by more than 1,000 hours of internal real-robot trajectories and over 8 million synthetic simulation trajectories.
Human egocentric data provides richer object, scene, and hand-action priors from open-world environments. We incorporate Ego4D, EPIC-KITCHENS, EgoDex (829 hours), EgoVerse (1,300+ hours, 1,965 tasks, 240 scenes), and Xperience.
Synthetic simulation data fills long-tail gaps. Vision-conditioned data covers 20 tabletop scenes, 200 configurations, 450 tasks, and 359,848 successful trajectories. Text-to-action data spans 6 templates × 6 single-arm robots, yielding about 7.2 million trajectories and over 14,000 hours.
Vision-language navigation data provides long-horizon trajectory planning and instruction-following capabilities.
General vision-language data preserves multimodal understanding, spatial grounding, and instruction following. We also build around 48,000 fine-grained action descriptions annotated across 13 dimensions, aligning natural language with concrete execution details.
The key idea: first learn to generate action structures from language, then learn to adapt those actions to the visual environment.
Stage I: T2A (Text-to-Action Pretraining). An instruction like “pick up the red cup” is just a few words, but the corresponding robot action is a high-dimensional continuous trajectory. Qwen-VLA treats this as a form of decompression from language to action. In T2A, we freeze the VLM and train only the action decoder on language and embodiment prompts without any images.
Stage II: CPT（Continual Pretraining）. We unfreeze both the VLM and action decoder and jointly train on the full multimodal data mixture. This stage grounds the language-action priors from T2A in concrete visual scenes while adapting the backbone to embodied perception, producing Qwen-VLA-Base.
Stage III: SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning). Starting from the CPT checkpoint, we branch into two tracks: multi-task SFT jointly fine-tunes on manipulation, navigation, VQA, and spatial grounding; real-robot SFT fine-tunes on in-house teleoperation data for physical deployment.
Stage IV: RL (Reinforcement Learning). Starting from the SFT checkpoint, we use PPO to directly optimize closed-loop task success in simulation, producing the final model Qwen-VLA-Instruct. RL is conducted only in SimplerEnv, yet experiments show its gains transfer to unseen environments and robot embodiments.
A Single Generalist Model Can Match or Even Surpass Specialist Models#
The experimental results show the potential of Qwen-VLA as a generalist policy model. A single model can cover multiple manipulation benchmarks, including LIBERO, Simpler, RoboCasa, and RoboTwin, while approaching or surpassing specialized policy models on several tasks.
Benchmark
Best Specialist Model
Qwen-VLA
LIBERO
ABot-M0 98.6%
97.9%
RoboCasa-GR1
ABot-M0 58.3%
56.7%
Simpler-WidowX
StarVLA-OFT 64.6%
73.7%
RoboTwin-Easy / Hard
ABot-M0 86.0% / 85.0%
86.1% / 87.2%
On robotic manipulation benchmarks, Qwen-VLA-Instruct achieves 97.9% on LIBERO, 73.7% on Simpler-WidowX, and 86.1% / 87.2% on RoboTwin-Easy / Hard. Many of the compared methods are specialist models fine-tuned for individual benchmarks, while Qwen-VLA is a unified generalist model trained under a single framework.
On vision-language navigation (VLN-CE), Qwen-VLA-Instruct achieves 69.0% Oracle Success Rate and 57.5% Success Rate on R2R Val-Unseen, and 59.6% SR and 47.8% SPL on the more challenging RxR Val-Unseen, surpassing all open-source baselines.
In real-world ALOHA dual-arm experiments, Qwen-VLA pretrained model achieves 83.6% average in-domain success and 76.9% average OOD success, substantially outperforming training from scratch (48.5% / 36.2%) and $\\pi_{0.5}$ (71.6% / 41.5%).
We also care about how Qwen-VLA generalizes on real robots.
In real-world ALOHA dual-arm robot experiments, Qwen-VLA demonstrates generalization to unseen colors, objects, backgrounds, positions, and language instructions. Compared with policies trained from scratch, models pretrained with Qwen-VLA show clear improvements under real-world out-of-distribution settings.
This part is best shown through videos. The following demonstrations are tested with the Qwen-VLA-Base model. When asked to “pick up the green ball” or “pick up the blue ball,” the model can correctly act based on color-specific instructions. When presented with unseen objects such as toys, vegetables, or sunglasses, it can still follow language commands to grasp or move them. When the background, lighting, and tabletop layout change, the model remains relatively stable. For compositional tasks such as “tidy up the table,” it can identify multiple targets and execute multi-step operations.
Compared with tables alone, these videos better illustrate the core value of Qwen-VLA:
The model is not merely memorizing action templates in a fixed environment. It is learning to understand goals and act under real-world variations.
Beyond static tabletop manipulation, Qwen-VLA also shows zero-shot generalization in dynamic manipulation tasks.
On the DOMINO dynamic manipulation benchmark, Qwen-VLA-Instruct is not specifically fine-tuned for the benchmark, yet it still achieves a 26.6% success rate and a 39.5 manipulation score, outperforming a range of standard VLA baselines and even some specialist models for dynamic manipulation.
This suggests that the model is not only learning grasping templates in static scenes, but also acquiring a more transferable action prior from spatial understanding to motion control. Given visual observations, language goals, and its action generation capability, the model can directly produce coherent action sequences and complete tasks within dynamic interaction windows.
From Multimodal Understanding to Embodied Intelligence#
Qwen-VLA is a natural extension of Qwen’s multimodal capabilities toward embodied intelligence.
In the past, multimodal models mainly focused on understanding the world. With Qwen-VLA, we further explore how models can generate actions in the physical world based on vision and language.
Qwen-VLA unifies robotic manipulation, vision-language navigation, and cross-embodiment control. It connects Qwen’s visual understanding and spatial reasoning capabilities to continuous action generation. Through joint pretraining on real robot data, human egocentric data, synthetic simulation data, and general vision-language data, it learns more general embodied experience. It also demonstrates the potential of generalist policy models across manipulation benchmarks, real-world out-of-distribution generalization, and zero-shot dynamic manipulation.
Embodied intelligence is still at an early stage. Long-horizon real-world tasks, failure recovery, continual learning, and more complex human-robot-environment interactions remain challenging. But Qwen-VLA points to a clear next step:
Models should not only understand the world — they should also learn to act in it.
@article{qwenvla,\ntitle={Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments},\nauthor={Qwen Team},\nyear={2026},\neprint={2605.30280},\narchivePrefix={arXiv},\nprimaryClass={cs.RO},\nurl={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30280}, \n}\n
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Today we introduce Qwen3.7-Plus — a multimodal agent model that unifies vision and language into a single, versatile agent foundation. Building on Qwen3.7’s strong text backbone, Qwen3.7-Plus delivers a comprehensive upgrade in vision-language capabilities while retaining full agentic strength in coding, tool use, and productivity workflows.
What sets Qwen3.7-Plus apart is its ability to operate as a multimodal interactive hybrid agent. It perceives real-world scenes, reads screens and operates GUIs, writes code from visual references, navigates mobile apps end-to-end, and answers visual questions grounded in web knowledge — seamlessly blending GUI and CLI interactions within a single agent loop. As a versatile coding agent and productivity assistant, it handles the full spectrum from frontend prototyping to complex software engineering and multi-step workflow automation with full-modality input. It generalizes across agent scaffolds, performing consistently whether deployed through Claude Code, OpenClaw, Qwen Code, or other frameworks.
* Terminal-Bench 2.0: Harbor/Terminus-2 harness; 5h timeout, 12 CPU/24 GB RAM; temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, max_tokens=80K, 256K ctx; avg of 5 runs. All experiments prepend a <think> token at each turn, allowing the model to decide whether to engage extended thinking. * SWE-Bench Series: Internal agent scaffold (bash + file-edit tools); temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, 200K context window. * SWE-bench Pro: Problematic tasks corrected and all baselines evaluated on the refined benchmark. * QwenClawBench: a real-user-distribution Claw agent benchmark; open-source: https://github.com/SKYLENAGE-AI/QwenClawBench. * CoWorkBench: an internal cowork benchmark; long-horizon tasks across computer science, finance, law, medical, and other productivity domains. * SkillsBench: Evaluated via OpenCode on 78 tasks (excluding 9 external API-dependent tasks); avg of 5 runs. * MCP-Mark: GitHub MCP v0.30.3; Playwright responses truncated at 32K tokens. * MCP-Atlas: Public set score; gemini-2.5-pro judger. * VITA-Bench: Avg subdomain scores; using claude-4.5-sonnet as judger, as the older official judgers are no longer available. * Kernel Bench L3: Metrics reported: median of per-problem speedup over PyTorch eager reference / fraction of problems faster than torch.compile, across 50 problems. Each test sample runs in an isolated Docker container with one H100 80GB GPU, with internet access restricted to the CUTLASS codebase and official CUDA documentation, limited to 500 tool calls with early stopping after 100 non-improving turns. GPT-5.4 (xhigh) is applied to detect potential hacking behaviors. CUPTI is used for kernel-level timing. * Reasoning scenarios: Recommended system prompt: \"Reasoning effort is set to xhigh. Please think carefully through the task, validate key assumptions, consider plausible alternatives, and prioritize correctness, consistency, and clarity in the final answer.\" * WMT24++: Harder WMT24 subset; avg scores on 55 langs via XCOMET-XXL. * MAXIFE: Accuracy on EN + multilingual prompts (23 settings total). * MMLU-ProX: Avg accuracy across 29 languages. * Empty cells (--) indicate scores not yet available.
Qwen3.7-Plus delivers competitive text performance that approaches Max-tier models across the board. In coding agents, it performs strongly on Terminal Bench 2.0, SWE-bench series, and SciCode, handling both real-world software engineering and scientific programming tasks effectively. In general-purpose agents, it demonstrates robust tool-use and planning capabilities across MCP-Mark, Deep-Planning, and Kernel Bench L3, showing particular strength in complex multi-step planning and GPU kernel optimization. Its reasoning performance on GPQA Diamond, HMMT, and IMOAnswerBench places it among the strongest Plus-tier models on hard STEM benchmarks. In instruction following and multilingual tasks, it delivers consistent quality across IFBench, WMT24++, and PolyMATH, with strong coverage across diverse languages.
* Multimodal Search & Knowledge QA: All models evaluated with search augmentation enabled. * BabyVision and CharXiv(RQ): Scores are reported as \"with CI / without CI\". * VideoMME (w/ sub.): Scores are reported with subtitles. * BC-VL and MMBC: Scores are reported with the recommended presence penalty 1.5 in BC tasks. * ScreenSpot Pro and OSWorld-Verified: Scores are reported with \"enable_thinking=False\". * Empty cells (--) indicate the scores are not yet available.
Qwen3.7-Plus’s multimodal improvements are not limited to isolated gains in visual understanding. Instead, they reflect a systematic enhancement of the core capabilities required by multimodal agents: understanding complex visual inputs, reasoning over visual information, using tools to solve problems, and ultimately executing tasks in code or GUI environments.
In Multimodal Reasoning, Qwen3.7-Plus delivers strong performance on challenging visual reasoning benchmarks such as BabyVision, MathVision, HiPhO, ERQA, and VisFactor. These results demonstrate the model’s ability to integrate fine-grained visual perception, spatial relationships, physical commonsense, and multi-step logical reasoning. In particular, its significant improvement on BabyVision over Qwen3.6-Plus suggests stronger generalization on tasks that are closer to early human visual cognition and spatial reasoning.
In Visual Agent & Coding, Qwen3.7-Plus shows substantial gains on ScreenSpot Pro, OSWorld-Verified, and AndroidWorld. This indicates that the model can not only recognize screen content, but also localize key UI elements, understand task intent, and complete multi-step interactions. On QwenVision2Code, the model also demonstrates strong vision-to-code generation capabilities, turning images, videos, and design references into executable code. These capabilities form the foundation for multimodal agents to move from “understanding interfaces” to “operating interfaces” and even “building interfaces.”
In Multimodal Search & Knowledge QA, Qwen3.7-Plus achieves clear improvements on SimpleVQA, WorldVQA, MMSearchPlus, BC-VL, and MMBC. The model can combine visual inputs with external knowledge retrieval to answer questions that cannot be solved from image content alone. This makes it better suited for real-world tasks, where users do not simply ask “what is in the image,” but expect the model to combine visual evidence, commonsense, and up-to-date knowledge to provide reliable answers.
In General Visual Understanding, Qwen3.7-Plus maintains strong performance across real-world scenes, document parsing, chart understanding, OCR, counting, and spatial localization. It performs strongly on tasks such as RealWorldQA, CountQA, OmniDocBench, CharXiv, and OCR-Bench-V2. These capabilities are essential for robustly handling real business inputs, including screenshots, receipts, tables, reports, posters, product images, and complex UI pages.
Beyond images, Qwen3.7-Plus further strengthens video understanding and driving-scene understanding. On video benchmarks such as VideoMMMU, MLVU, TVBench, and LVBench, it can reason over events, actions, temporal dynamics, and semantic relationships in both short and long videos. On driving-related evaluations such as LingoQA, Ego3D-Bench, SURDS, and VLADBench, it also demonstrates strong understanding of dynamic scenes, traffic participants, and spatial relationships. These capabilities lay an important foundation for real-world multimodal agents, autonomous driving understanding, and embodied AI scenarios.
As a multimodal model, Qwen3.7-Plus accepts both text and image/video inputs. It also supports the preserve_thinking feature: preserving thinking content from all preceding turns in messages, which is recommended for agentic tasks.
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio supports industry-standard protocols, including chat completions and responses APIs compatible with OpenAI’s specification.
"""\nEnvironment variables:\n DASHSCOPE_API_KEY: Your API Key from https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com\n DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL: (optional) Base URL for compatible-mode API.\n - Beijing: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - Singapore: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - US (Virginia): https://dashscope-us.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n"""\nfromopenaiimportOpenAI\nimportos\n\napi_key=os.environ.get("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\nifnotapi_key:\nraiseValueError(\n"DASHSCOPE_API_KEY is required. "\n"Set it via: export DASHSCOPE_API_KEY='your-api-key'"\n)\n\nclient=OpenAI(\napi_key=api_key,\nbase_url=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL",\n"https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",\n),\n)\n\nmessages=[{"role":"user","content":"Write a Python function to merge two sorted linked lists."}]\n\ncompletion=client.chat.completions.create(\nmodel="qwen3.7-plus",\nmessages=messages,\nextra_body={\n"enable_thinking":True,\n# "preserve_thinking": True,\n},\nstream=True\n)\n\nreasoning_content=""\nanswer_content=""\nis_answering=False\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Reasoning"+"="*20+"\\n")\n\nforchunkincompletion:\nifnotchunk.choices:\nprint("\\nUsage:")\nprint(chunk.usage)\ncontinue\n\ndelta=chunk.choices[0].delta\n\nifhasattr(delta,"reasoning_content")anddelta.reasoning_contentisnotNone:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint(delta.reasoning_content,end="",flush=True)\nreasoning_content+=delta.reasoning_content\n\nifhasattr(delta,"content")anddelta.content:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Answer"+"="*20+"\\n")\nis_answering=True\nprint(delta.content,end="",flush=True)\nanswer_content+=delta.content\n
Qwen3.7-Plus features multimodal hybrid-agent capabilities designed for closed-loop execution of real-world tasks. It can not only understand visual interfaces, perceive on-screen content, and perform both GUI interactions and CLI operations, but also leverage environmental feedback for code generation, application manipulation, testing, validation, and iterative optimization. By integrating the full workflow of “see, think, write, act, and verify” into a unified agent loop, it enables end-to-end automation of complex software tasks from initial understanding to final delivery.
We built the Hybrid-Agent intelligent agent system based on Qwen3.7, deeply integrating the code generation capabilities of large language models with GUI automation execution, achieving full-chain APP development from requirement analysis to version iteration. The Agent operated continuously and stably for over 11 hours, fully automating the complete R&D cycle of an English vocabulary learning APP. It generated more than 10,000+ lines of code, triggered over 1,000+ Agent calls, and covered core stages across the entire software development lifecycle: requirement document generation, automated coding, installation and deployment, test case creation, GUI-based automated testing, multi-scenario parallelized testing, automatic product documentation updates, and autonomous version evolution.
For professional desktop application scenarios, the Hybrid-Agent system deeply integrates the model’s GUI perception and code generation capabilities to enable one-click autonomous replication of professional desktop applications. The Agent autonomously completed a high-fidelity recreation of the native macOS Stocks app, covering the full pipeline from requirement understanding to delivery validation: autonomously interacting with the native app to comprehend UI layout and feature details, generating SwiftUI source code from interaction records, integrating with the LongBridge real-world market API for live data, automatically compiling and launching the recreated app, and finally conducting 10 functional verification tests autonomously – including real-time quote loading, stock selection and switching, multi-period view toggling, search filtering, and detailed stats panel display – all passed. The delivered application faithfully reproduces the native Stocks app’s dark theme, split-view layout, real-time market data, and full interactivity.
Qwen3.7-Plus can serve as a powerful visual agent, combining visual understanding with tool use to solve complex visual tasks. Through integration with a code interpreter, it can analyze images to spot differences, complete missing puzzle pieces, solve sliding-block puzzles, navigate mazes, and assemble jigsaw puzzles—all by autonomously generating and executing code. With search augmentation, it can also leverage web knowledge to reason over real-world visual questions and provide multimodal answers across single-image, multi-image, and video inputs.
Below, we showcase several examples that demonstrate the multimodal agent capabilities of Qwen3.7-Plus.
For multimodal reasoning, we introduce code execution to further enhance the model’s problem-solving ability. The model first understands the structure and constraints in the visual input, then transforms the visual task into a computable representation, and finally writes and executes code to solve, search, or verify the answer.
In tasks such as spot-the-difference, missing-block completion, sliding-block puzzles, mazes, and jigsaw puzzles, the model needs to go beyond recognizing visual content. It must also perform spatial modeling, path search, state simulation, and result verification. These examples highlight Qwen3.7-Plus’s ability to move from visual perception to programmatic problem solving.
In search-augmented visual question answering, Qwen3.7-Plus can combine image, video, or multi-image inputs with web search to answer real-world knowledge questions. The model first extracts key entities, scenes, text, and contextual clues from the visual input, then retrieves external knowledge through search, and finally synthesizes visual evidence with retrieved information to produce the answer.
This enables the model to handle a wide range of open-world questions, such as identifying locations, understanding the background of events, analyzing products or objects, and answering visual questions that depend on up-to-date knowledge.
Qwen3.7-Plus demonstrates strong vision-to-code generation capabilities. It can transform images, videos, UI screenshots, and design references into executable code, covering a broad range of scenarios from SVG reconstruction to full webpage generation.
In image/video-to-SVG tasks, the model needs to understand geometric structures, colors, layouts, hierarchical relationships, and dynamic changes in visual content, and then express these elements precisely in code. This requires not only visual understanding, but also structured representation and code generation.
For icons, illustrations, animations, graphic design, and information visualization, this capability can significantly reduce the cost of turning visual references into editable code assets.
In vision-driven web design, Qwen3.7-Plus can generate complete interactive webpages based on visual references, video materials, or design intent. The model can also use generation tools to produce assets for webpage design.
It not only reproduces the visual style of a reference page, but also organizes layout, writes frontend code, handles interaction logic, and integrates multimodal assets into the final page. This demonstrates the potential of Qwen3.7-Plus as a visual coding assistant: moving from “given a reference image” to “generate a runnable web prototype.”
Built on Qwen3.7-Plus, the browser Agent is demonstrated and recorded through Qwen for Chrome, a browser extension embedded in Chrome. Users can interact with Qwen directly from the browser sidebar and, with authorization, switch it into Agent mode. In this mode, Qwen can perceive the current webpage, understand the user’s task, plan the next steps, and operate as a Browser Agent to perform clicks, typing, navigation, configuration, and verification directly in the real browser environment.
With this setup, the Qwen3.7 browser Agent integrates page understanding, task planning, and GUI automation to operate inside real web-based work environments. Given a non-technical user’s request to purchase the cheapest ECS server, the Agent can navigate the cloud console, compare instance options, select a low-cost configuration, set up images, storage, security groups, and order details, while dynamically adjusting its strategy when prices change, inventory is limited, or purchase constraints arise. In the follow-up task, the Agent further handles instance scaling and maintenance, completing shutdown, configuration updates, disk expansion, service recovery, and final verification. This scenario covers the real cloud workflow from server purchase to upgrade, turning a complex console-based process into a continuous, efficient, and deliverable browser automation task.
Qwen3.7-Plus also shows strong performance in real-world perception and multimodal reasoning. Real-world scenes are often much more complex than standard visual question answering. They may involve occlusion, cluttered backgrounds, small objects, relationships among multiple entities, cross-image comparison, and implicit physical commonsense.
To answer these questions reliably, the model must first identify visual details robustly, then combine them with spatial relationships, commonsense knowledge, and logical reasoning.
Qwen3.7-Plus is our most capable multimodal agent model, unifying vision understanding and language reasoning into a versatile agent foundation. It operates as a multimodal interactive hybrid agent — perceiving real-world scenes, operating graphical interfaces, writing code from visual references, and completing end-to-end tasks across both GUI and CLI environments. As a versatile coding agent and productivity assistant, it handles the full range of tasks from frontend prototyping to complex software engineering and multi-step workflow automation. It generalizes across agent scaffolds, performing consistently whether deployed through Claude Code, OpenClaw, Qwen Code, or other frameworks. We welcome community feedback and look forward to seeing what you build.
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Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate: From Sound to Sight, From Word to Right
Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash is the latest simultaneous interpretation model in the Qwen family, built on top of Qwen3.5-Omni. It delivers real-time, multimodal translation that not only hears and translates speech, but also sees and understands visual context to produce more accurate translations. Compared with its predecessor Qwen3-LiveTranslate, Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash brings major upgrades across language coverage, latency, voice cloning, and terminology handling, making it well-suited for international meetings, livestream localization, online classrooms, and business negotiations.
Massively expanded language coverage: understands 18 → 60 languages, speaks 10 → 29 languages. The language support of input audio and output text has grown from 18 to 60, and output audio language support from 10 to 29, covering far more cross-lingual combinations to meet multilingual interpretation needs in international meetings, livestream localization, online classrooms, and business negotiations.
Ultra-low latency: powered by Readable Unit technology, faster text and speech output. A novel Readable Unit real-time translation technique achieves more aggressive streaming output while preserving translation readability and semantic consistency. Average speech-to-speech per-token latency is reduced to to 2.8 seconds, ideal for latency-sensitive scenarios such as livestreams, co-hosting, and press conferences.
Real-time voice cloning: one sentence to start, instantly “interpret in your voice”. During simultaneous interpretation, the system automatically replicates the speaker’s vocal characteristics, keeping the translated speech sounding like “the same person” across languages, enhancing immersion and identity consistency, especially critical for streamers, guests, and hosts.
Hotword enhancement: proper nouns and industry terms “recognized right, written right, translated right”. Built-in Hotword capability prioritizes the recognition and translation of names, places, brand names, product models, and industry terminology. Hotwords can be dynamically configured and updated in real time per scenario, significantly reducing terminology mistranslation risk, well-suited for technical launches, medical/legal/financial meetings, and enterprise training.
On public multilingual speech translation benchmarks (FLEURS, CoVoST2), Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash achieves higher translation accuracy than mainstream commerical large speech models, significantly surpasses its predecessor Qwen3-LiveTranslate-Flash, and delivers breakthroughs in both language coverage and translation quality.
With the Readable Unit streaming strategy, Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash reduces first-token latency by 3.45 s and per-token latency by 1.88 s compared to Qwen3-LiveTranslate-Flash, achieving an average speech-to-speech per-token latency of 2.8 s, with virtually no loss in translation quality.
Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate is a translation large model built on the Qwen3.5-Omni Thinker-Talker architecture. The Thinker receives interleaved visual and audio inputs and generates text translations, while the Talker takes the translated text and source audio to produce speech with crosslingual voice cloning. For real-time simultaneous interpretation, we adopt a chunk-wise streaming input mechanism and introduce Readable Unit tags to control speech synthesis granularity, effectively reducing interpretation latency. Meanwhile, dynamic crosslingual voice cloning enables the model to preserve the speaker’s original vocal characteristics during real-time translation.
Compared to Qwen3-LiveTranslate, Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate significantly expands language coverage. The support of input audio and output text grows from 18 to 60 languages, and output audio support from 10 to 29 languages, enabling a far wider range of cross-lingual translation combinations across global scenarios.
A multilingual business meeting where participants speak in different languages and switch between them mid-sentence. Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate handles code-switching, diverse accents, and domain-specific terminology in real time — delivering fluent, natural translations without missing a beat.
A real-world travel scenario powered by Qwen AI Glasses: a Chinese tourist orders food at a local restaurant in Thailand. The model performs live Thai-to-Chinese translation on-device, combining visual context from the menu with spoken dialogue to produce accurate, context-aware translations — making cross-language communication effortless on the go.
A scene from Romance of the Three Kingdoms narrated in classical Chinese (文言文). Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate accurately interprets and translates archaic Chinese prose into modern English, demonstrating its ability to handle literary and historical language beyond everyday speech.
Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate leverages visual context to resolve translation ambiguities. When a word or phrase has multiple possible meanings, the model uses what it sees — on-screen text, objects, or scene context — to select the correct interpretation, producing translations that are both accurate and contextually grounded.
importos\nimporttime\nimportbase64\nimportasyncio\nimportjson\nimportwebsockets\nimportpyaudio\nimportqueue\nimportthreading\nimporttraceback\n\n\nclassLiveTranslateClient:\n"""Client for the DashScope live-translation service: captures mic audio, sends it to the server, and plays back the translated speech."""\n\ndef__init__(self,api_key:str,target_language:str="en",*,audio_enabled:bool=True):\nifnotapi_key:\nraiseValueError("API key cannot be empty.")\n\nself.api_key=api_key\nself.target_language=target_language\nself.audio_enabled=audio_enabled\nself.ws=None\nself.api_url="wss://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/api-ws/v1/realtime?model=qwen3.5-livetranslate-flash-realtime"\n\n# Audio input parameters (microphone capture)\nself.input_rate=16000\nself.input_chunk=1600\nself.input_format=pyaudio.paInt16\nself.input_channels=1\n\n# Audio output parameters (local playback)\nself.output_rate=24000\nself.output_chunk=2400\nself.output_format=pyaudio.paInt16\nself.output_channels=1\n\n# Runtime state and playback resources\nself.is_connected=False\nself.audio_player_thread=None\nself.audio_playback_queue=queue.Queue()\nself.pyaudio_instance=pyaudio.PyAudio()\n\nasyncdefconnect(self):\n"""Open a WebSocket connection to the translation service."""\nheaders={"Authorization":f"Bearer {self.api_key}"}\ntry:\nself.ws=awaitwebsockets.connect(self.api_url,additional_headers=headers)\nself.is_connected=True\nprint(f"Successfully connected to server: {self.api_url}")\nawaitself.configure_session()\nexceptExceptionase:\nprint(f"Connection failed: {e}")\nself.is_connected=False\nraise\n\nasyncdefconfigure_session(self):\n"""Configure the translation session: target language, audio formats, and optional features."""\nconfig={\n"event_id":f"event_{int(time.time()*1000)}",\n"type":"session.update",\n"session":{\n# `modalities` decides what the server returns:\n# ["text", "audio"] — both translated text and synthesized speech (recommended)\n# ["text"] — translated text only\n"modalities":["text","audio"]ifself.audio_enabledelse["text"],\n"input_audio_format":"pcm",\n"output_audio_format":"pcm",\n# `input_audio_transcription`: enable source-language ASR.\n# Setting `model` to 'qwen3-asr-flash-realtime' also streams back the source transcript.\n# "input_audio_transcription": {\n# "model": "qwen3-asr-flash-realtime",\n# "language": "zh" # source language; defaults to 'en'\n# },\n"translation":{\n"language":self.target_language,\n# `corpus`: register hotwords to boost accuracy on proper nouns and domain-specific terms.\n# "corpus": {\n# "phrases": {\n# "人工智能": "Artificial Intelligence",\n# "机器学习": "Machine Learning"\n# }\n# }\n}\n}\n}\nprint(f"Sending session config: {json.dumps(config,indent=2,ensure_ascii=False)}")\nawaitself.ws.send(json.dumps(config))\n\nasyncdefsend_audio_chunk(self,audio_data:bytes):\n"""Base64-encode an audio chunk and send it to the server."""\nifnotself.is_connected:\nreturn\n\nevent={\n"event_id":f"event_{int(time.time()*1000)}",\n"type":"input_audio_buffer.append",\n"audio":base64.b64encode(audio_data).decode()\n}\nawaitself.ws.send(json.dumps(event))\n\nasyncdefsend_image_frame(self,image_bytes:bytes,*,event_id:str|None=None):\n"""Send an image frame to the server as visual context for translation."""\nifnotself.is_connected:\nreturn\nifnotimage_bytes:\nraiseValueError("image_bytes cannot be empty")\n\nimage_b64=base64.b64encode(image_bytes).decode()\nevent={\n"event_id":event_idorf"event_{int(time.time()*1000)}",\n"type":"input_image_buffer.append",\n"image":image_b64,\n}\nawaitself.ws.send(json.dumps(event))\n\ndef_audio_player_task(self):\n"""Background thread task: drain PCM chunks from the playback queue and write them to the speaker output stream."""\nstream=self.pyaudio_instance.open(\nformat=self.output_format,\nchannels=self.output_channels,\nrate=self.output_rate,\noutput=True,\nframes_per_buffer=self.output_chunk,\n)\ntry:\nwhileself.is_connectedornotself.audio_playback_queue.empty():\ntry:\naudio_chunk=self.audio_playback_queue.get(timeout=0.1)\nifaudio_chunkisNone:# sentinel: stop the playback loop\nbreak\nstream.write(audio_chunk)\nself.audio_playback_queue.task_done()\nexceptqueue.Empty:\ncontinue\nfinally:\nstream.stop_stream()\nstream.close()\n\ndefstart_audio_player(self):\n"""Spin up the background audio playback thread (no-op when audio output is disabled)."""\nifnotself.audio_enabled:\nreturn\nifself.audio_player_threadisNoneornotself.audio_player_thread.is_alive():\nself.audio_player_thread=threading.Thread(target=self._audio_player_task,daemon=True)\nself.audio_player_thread.start()\n\nasyncdefhandle_server_messages(self,on_text_received):\n"""Continuously receive and dispatch event messages pushed by the server."""\ntry:\nasyncformessageinself.ws:\nevent=json.loads(message)\nevent_type=event.get("type")\nifevent_type=="response.audio.delta"andself.audio_enabled:\naudio_b64=event.get("delta","")\nifaudio_b64:\naudio_data=base64.b64decode(audio_b64)\nself.audio_playback_queue.put(audio_data)\n\nelifevent_type=="response.done":\nprint("\\n[INFO] Response complete.")\nusage=event.get("response",{}).get("usage",{})\nifusage:\nprint(f"[INFO] Token usage: {json.dumps(usage,indent=2,ensure_ascii=False)}")\n# Receive source-language ASR results (requires input_audio_transcription.model to be enabled)\n# elif event_type == "conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.text":\n# stash = event.get("stash", "") # streaming partial result, not yet finalized\n# print(f"[Recognizing] {stash}")\n# elif event_type == "conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.completed":\n# transcript = event.get("transcript", "") # final transcript for an utterance\n# print(f"[Source] {transcript}")\n# In voice + text mode, the translation text arrives alongside synthesized audio under the `transcript` field\nelifevent_type=="response.audio_transcript.done":\nprint("\\n[INFO] Translation complete.")\ntext=event.get("transcript","")\niftext:\nprint(f"[INFO] Translation: {text}")\n# In text-only mode, the translation arrives via response.text.done under the `text` field\nelifevent_type=="response.text.done":\nprint("\\n[INFO] Translation complete.")\ntext=event.get("text","")\niftext:\nprint(f"[INFO] Translation: {text}")\n\nexceptwebsockets.exceptions.ConnectionClosedase:\nprint(f"[WARNING] Connection closed: {e}")\nself.is_connected=False\nexceptExceptionase:\nprint(f"[ERROR] Unknown error during message handling: {e}")\ntraceback.print_exc()\nself.is_connected=False\n\nasyncdefstart_microphone_streaming(self):\n"""Continuously capture microphone audio and stream it to the server in real time."""\nstream=self.pyaudio_instance.open(\nformat=self.input_format,\nchannels=self.input_channels,\nrate=self.input_rate,\ninput=True,\nframes_per_buffer=self.input_chunk\n)\nprint("Microphone started, please begin speaking...")\ntry:\nwhileself.is_connected:\naudio_chunk=awaitasyncio.get_event_loop().run_in_executor(\nNone,stream.read,self.input_chunk\n)\nawaitself.send_audio_chunk(audio_chunk)\nfinally:\nstream.stop_stream()\nstream.close()\n\nasyncdefclose(self):\n"""Gracefully close the WebSocket connection and release audio resources."""\nself.is_connected=False\nifself.ws:\nawaitself.ws.close()\nprint("WebSocket connection closed.")\n\nifself.audio_player_thread:\nself.audio_playback_queue.put(None)# signal the playback thread to exit\nself.audio_player_thread.join(timeout=1)\nprint("Audio playback thread stopped.")\n\nself.pyaudio_instance.terminate()\nprint("PyAudio instance released.")\n\n\ndefprint_banner():\nprint("="*60)\nprint(" Powered by Qwen qwen3.5-livetranslate-flash-realtime")\nprint("="*60+"\\n")\n\n\ndefget_user_config():\n"""Collect runtime parameters from the user via CLI: output mode and target language."""\nprint("Select mode:")\nprint("1. Voice + Text [default] | 2. Text only")\nmode_choice=input("Enter option (press Enter for Voice + Text): ").strip()\naudio_enabled=(mode_choice!="2")\n\nifaudio_enabled:\nlang_map={\n"1":"en","2":"zh","3":"ru","4":"fr","5":"de","6":"pt",\n"7":"es","8":"it","9":"ko","10":"ja","11":"yue"\n}\nprint("Select target translation language (Voice + Text mode):")\nprint("1. English | 2. Chinese | 3. Russian | 4. French | 5. German | 6. Portuguese | 7. Spanish | 8. Italian | 9. Korean | 10. Japanese | 11. Cantonese")\nelse:\nlang_map={\n"1":"en","2":"zh","3":"ru","4":"fr","5":"de","6":"pt","7":"es","8":"it",\n"9":"id","10":"ko","11":"ja","12":"vi","13":"th","14":"ar",\n"15":"yue","16":"hi","17":"el","18":"tr"\n}\nprint("Select target translation language (Text only mode):")\nprint("1. English | 2. Chinese | 3. Russian | 4. French | 5. German | 6. Portuguese | 7. Spanish | 8. Italian | 9. Indonesian | 10. Korean | 11. Japanese | 12. Vietnamese | 13. Thai | 14. Arabic | 15. Cantonese | 16. Hindi | 17. Greek | 18. Turkish")\n\nchoice=input("Enter option (default is the first one): ").strip()\ntarget_language=lang_map.get(choice,next(iter(lang_map.values())))\n\nreturntarget_language,audio_enabled\n\n\nasyncdefmain():\n"""Program entry point: connect, configure the session, and drive the live-translation loop."""\nprint_banner()\n\napi_key=os.environ.get("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\nifnotapi_key:\nprint("[ERROR] Please set the environment variable DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\nprint(" Example: export DASHSCOPE_API_KEY='your_api_key_here'")\nreturn\n\ntarget_language,audio_enabled=get_user_config()\nprint("\\nConfiguration complete:")\nprint(f" - Target language: {target_language}")\nifnotaudio_enabled:\nprint(" - Output mode: Text only")\n\nclient=LiveTranslateClient(api_key=api_key,target_language=target_language,audio_enabled=audio_enabled)\n\n# Callback fired as translated text arrives — stream it to stdout, character by character\ndefon_translation_text(text):\nprint(text,end="",flush=True)\n\ntry:\nprint("Connecting to the translation service...")\nawaitclient.connect()\n\n# Launch the audio playback thread (only does real work when audio output is enabled)\nclient.start_audio_player()\n\nprint("\\n"+"-"*60)\nprint("Connected! Please speak into the microphone.")\nprint("The program will translate your speech in real time and play the results. Press Ctrl+C to exit.")\nprint("-"*60+"\\n")\n\n# Run two coroutines concurrently: server-message handling + microphone audio upload\nmessage_handler=asyncio.create_task(client.handle_server_messages(on_translation_text))\ntasks=[message_handler]\n# Microphone capture is the translation input source — required regardless of output mode\nmicrophone_streamer=asyncio.create_task(client.start_microphone_streaming())\ntasks.append(microphone_streamer)\n\nawaitasyncio.gather(*tasks)\n\nexceptKeyboardInterrupt:\nprint("\\n\\nUser interrupted, exiting...")\nexceptExceptionase:\nprint(f"\\nFatal error occurred: {e}")\nfinally:\nprint("\\nCleaning up resources...")\nawaitclient.close()\nprint("Program exited.")\n\n\nif__name__=="__main__":\nasyncio.run(main())\n
More languages and dialects: expand input/output coverage for low-resource languages, regional dialects, and cross-regional expressions.
Longer context and stronger consistency: maintain terminology, names, and context consistency in long meetings and multi-turn dialogues.
Higher-fidelity voice cloning: preserve speaker characteristics while restoring ambient sounds and on-site atmosphere more naturally.
Richer interaction modes: support multilingual, mixed-dialect expression, speaker separation, and joint multimodal modeling with gestures, lip movement, and expressions.
Feel free to cite the following article if you find Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate helpful:
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Qwen-RobotNav: A Scalable Navigation Model Designed for an Agentic Navigation System
Agentic navigation systems require a base navigation model with a configurable navigation context protocol: instruction following, object search, target tracking, and autonomous driving share the same perception-planning backbone yet demand fundamentally different context strategies for consuming the visual stream. Like the Model Context Protocol for LLM tool use, a navigation model needs a standardised interface to manage these diverse context requirements at inference time.
We present Qwen-RobotNav, a scalable navigation model built on Qwen3-VL that addresses this through a parameterised interface with two complementary dimensions: task modes that select the navigation behaviour, and controllable observation parameters (token budget, temporal decay, per-camera weights) that govern how visual history is encoded. Trained on 15.6 million samples with training-time randomization over all parameters, Qwen-RobotNav generalizes to any inference-time configuration without architectural modification, unifying five task families under a single set of weights and serving as a natural building block for agentic systems.
Highlights:
5 Domains 8 SOTAs
One Model Unifies VLN, ObjNav, Tracking, Driving & EQA
Context = Interface
4-Axis Observation Protocol Zero Architecture Change
Agentic
Navigation as a Tool Call + Two-Level Memory Raises the new bar on EQA
Generalization
In-the-Wild Single-Camera Deployment in Unseen Environments
Unified Multi-Domains Navigation: a single model with one set of weights achieves state-of-the-art across 5 navigation domains: 76.5% SR on VLN-CE RxR, 75.6% SR on HM3Dv2 object-goal (RGB only, surpassing depth-based methods), 90.0% tracking rate on EVT-Bench, 91.4 PDMS on NAVSIM, and new bests on 3 EQA benchmarks, with consistent scaling from 2B to 8B parameters.
Controllable Observation Protocol: four axes (visual token budget, temporal decay, per-camera weighting, frame sample mode) are exposed as inference-time parameters and randomized per sample at training time, enabling any inference-time configuration without retraining or architectural modification.
Agentic Navigation System: designed as a reconfigurable navigation primitive within a two-tier system, where an upper-level planner (Qwen3.7-Plus) decomposes long-horizon goals and dispatches configurable navigation calls while maintaining two-level memory, achieving +15.4% on EXPRESS-Bench with 77% fewer navigation steps over prior best.
In-the-Wild Generalization: deployed zero-shot on a Unitree Go2 quadruped with its single low-resolution build-in camera, demonstrating strong generalization to in-the-wild environments and unconstrained natural-language instructions without any environment-specific fine-tuning.
Mobile navigation spans tasks with wildly different needs. Instruction following demands a long memory of past observations to re-reference distant landmarks. Target tracking cares almost entirely about the most recent few frames. Object search shifts mid-episode: broad history during exploration, tight recency during approach.
Existing unified navigation models embed a single assumption about what to remember. Qwen-RobotNav addresses this by treating context as a first-class, externally controllable degree of freedom. The model provides four control axes that an agent can tune per call:
Visual token budget: total tokens across all cameras and timesteps
Temporal decay: how strongly recent frames are favored over older ones
Camera weights: per-camera importance (the forward camera matters more than the rear)
Frame sample mode: random for global history coverage, or latest for a tight recency window
At training time, all these parameters are randomized per sample. The model never sees a fixed configuration, so it generalizes to any setting at inference time.
Architecture. Qwen-RobotNav inherits the Qwen3-VL backbone and adds a lightweight 4-layer MLP action head that outputs 8 waypoints, each with position and heading. Camera identity and temporal order are communicated entirely through natural-language tags interleaved with visual tokens:
Time step 0 Front View <image> Front Right View <image> ...\nTime step 1 Front View <image> ...\n
Qwen-RobotNav is designed as a reconfigurable navigation primitive within a two-tier system. An upper-level planner (Qwen3.7-Plus) decomposes long-horizon goals into sub-goals, while Qwen-RobotNav executes each navigation segment as a reactive waypoint predictor.
The planner can dynamically switch Qwen-RobotNav’s task mode and context strategy mid-episode. The two tiers communicate entirely through natural language, keeping the system modular and extensible.
Each navigation call specifies three things: a sub-goal instruction, a task mode (VLN / PointNav / ObjNav / Tracking), and an observation configuration. The same model weights serve all task phases; only the call arguments change.
To support long-horizon reasoning, the system keeps a two-level memory. Each navigation segment produces a compact trajectory summary. A persistent evidence notebook accumulates durable conclusions across episodes (searched regions, candidate object locations, rejected hypotheses) so the planner always works with concise, relevant context.
Qwen-RobotNav is trained on 15.6 million samples across five task families, plus vision-language reasoning data that preserves the backbone’s perceptual grounding. Performance scales consistently from 2B to 8B parameters, with the most pronounced gains on long-horizon reasoning tasks.
We also introduce an automated pipeline that converts text-to-video generations into navigation trajectories through prompt generation, video synthesis, VLM quality filtering, monocular depth estimation, and kinematic filtering, yielding 40K additional photorealistic samples without any 3D scene reconstruction.
Development trend of VLN success rates on R2R and RxR validation-unseen splits. Traditional methods show steady early progress, while recent LLM/VLM-based approaches drive the latest performance gains, with Qwen-RobotNav achieving the highest success rates on both benchmarks.
Qwen-RobotNav-8B achieves 72.1% SR on R2R and 76.5% SR on the longer-horizon RxR benchmark, surpassing prior best methods.
Method
R2R SR↑
R2R SPL↑
RxR SR↑
RxR SPL↑
NaVILA
54.0
49.0
49.3
44.0
NavFoM
61.7
55.3
64.4
56.2
ABot-N0
66.4
63.9
69.3
60.0
OmniNav
69.5
66.1
73.6
62.0
Qwen-RobotNav-4B
69.5
63.6
75.2
65.0
Qwen-RobotNav-8B
72.1
66.6
76.5
65.7
Object Searching
On HM3Dv2 object-goal navigation, Qwen-RobotNav-4B achieves 75.6% SR using only RGB observations, surpassing all depth-based methods, and reaches only 1.72m from the goal on average.
Method
SR↑
SPL↑
VLFM
52.5
30.4
CogNav
72.5
26.2
Uni-NaVid
73.7
37.1
Qwen-RobotNav-4B
75.6
30.6
Qwen-RobotNav-8B
71.2
33.0
Active Visual Tracking
On EVT-Bench, Qwen-RobotNav achieves the highest tracking rate at 90.0%, exceeding dedicated trackers and generalist models alike.
Method
TR↑
CR↓
SR↑
TrackVLA++
81.0
2.10
86.0
NavFoM
80.5
—
85.0
ABot-N0
87.6
8.54
86.9
Qwen-RobotNav-4B
90.0
6.40
77.4
Qwen-RobotNav-8B
89.7
5.70
78.6
Embodied Question Answering
Equipped with the agentic system, Qwen-RobotNav sets new state-of-the-art results across three EQA benchmarks, surpassing prior methods by substantial margins.
We deploy Qwen-RobotNav on a Unitree Go2 quadruped robot with on-device inference via NVIDIA Jetson Thor, achieving 196ms latency (5.1 Hz). The sole visual input is the Go2’s built-in low-resolution camera. All experiments are conducted zero-shot in previously unseen environments without any environment-specific fine-tuning.
Deployment
The robot executes navigation tasks in an apartment setting using step-by-step verbal instructions, traversing between the bedroom, living room, and bathroom while responding to fine-grained spatial directives.
Instruction Following
We evaluate a back-and-forth navigation task in an unseen exhibition hall: the robot first navigates 21.78 m from a living room to a hospital room following language instructions, then receives a reverse command and must precisely retrace the entire route. This is particularly challenging as it requires the model to maintain spatial awareness over long distances, ground diverse visual landmarks in both forward and reverse directions, and execute accurate bidirectional position control purely from language.
Agentic Navigation
In agentic mode, the system supports open-ended requests beyond simple route-following. Given the instruction \"check whether a green umbrella was left at Cotti Coffee,\" the agent decomposes the task into sub-goals, navigates using corridor landmarks for localization, inspects the target scene, and produces an evidence-grounded answer without human intervention.
Agentic navigation: autonomously checking for a green umbrella at Cotti Coffee.
Qwen-RobotNav reframes multi-task navigation as a context modeling problem: diverse tasks share the same perception and planning backbone but require different strategies for consuming observations. Treating context as an externally controllable interface enables a single model to serve as a practical, deployable navigation primitive within agentic systems.
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Qwen3.7: The Agent Frontier
May 16, 2026 · 17 min · 3543 words · Qwen Team | Translations:
Today we introduce Qwen3.7-Max, our latest proprietary model designed for the agent era. Qwen3.7-Max is built to be a versatile agent foundation — equally capable of writing and debugging code, automating office workflows, and sustaining autonomous execution across hundreds or thousands of steps.
What sets Qwen3.7-Max apart is the breadth and depth of its agent capabilities. It excels as a coding agent, from frontend prototyping to complex multi-file engineering. It serves as a reliable office and productivity assistant through MCP integrations and multi-agent orchestration. It sustains coherent reasoning across extremely long horizons — as demonstrated by a 35-hour, fully autonomous kernel optimization run comprising over 1,000 tool calls. It generalizes across agent scaffolds, performing consistently whether deployed through Claude Code, OpenClaw, Qwen Code, or other frameworks.
* Terminal-Bench 2.0: Harbor/Terminus-2 harness; 5h timeout, 12 CPU/24 GB RAM; temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, max_tokens=80K, 256K ctx; avg of 5 runs. All experiments prepend a token at each turn, allowing the model to decide whether to engage extended thinking. * SWE-Bench Series: Internal agent scaffold (bash + file-edit tools); temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, 200K context window. * SWE-bench Pro: Problematic tasks corrected and all baselines evaluated on the refined benchmark. * NL2Repo: Evaluated via Claude-code. We disable Bash commands that attempt to access the specific repository, such as pip download, pip install, and git clone. * QwenWebDev: Internal front-end code generation benchmark; bilingual (EN/CN), 7 categories; auto-render + multimodal judge; BT/Elo rating. * QwenClawBench: a real-user-distribution Claw agent benchmark; open-source: https://github.com/SKYLENAGE-AI/QwenClawBench. * CoWorkBench: an internal cowork benchmark; long-horizon tasks across computer science, finance, law, medical, and other productivity domains. * SkillsBench: Evaluated via OpenCode on 78 tasks (excluding 9 external API-dependent tasks); avg of 5 runs. * MCP-Mark: GitHub MCP v0.30.3; Playwright responses truncated at 32K tokens. * MCP-Atlas: Public set score; gemini-2.5-pro judger. * VITA-Bench: Avg subdomain scores; using claude-4.5-sonnet as judger, as the older official judgers are no longer available. * Kernel Bench L3: Metrics reported: median of per-problem speedup over PyTorch eager reference / fraction of problems faster than torch.compile, across 50 problems. Each test sample runs in an isolated Docker container with one H100 80GB GPU, with internet access restricted to the CUTLASS codebase and official CUDA documentation, limited to 500 tool calls with early stopping after 100 non-improving turns. GPT-5.4 (xhigh) is applied to detect potential hacking behaviors. CUPTI is used for kernel-level timing. * QwenWorldBench: Internal benchmark for evaluating LLMs as world models for simulating agentic environments; 7 domains (Terminal, SWE, MCP, Search, OS, Android, Web); open-ended 5-dim rubric judge grounded in real-environment feedback. * Reasoning scenarios: Recommended system prompt: \"Reasoning effort is set to xhigh. Please think carefully through the task, validate key assumptions, consider plausible alternatives, and prioritize correctness, consistency, and clarity in the final answer.\" * MRCR-v2: 128K context subset containing 8 needles utilized; evaluation protocol adopted from https://github.com/google-deepmind/eval_hub/tree/master/eval_hub/mrcr_v2. * WMT24++: Harder WMT24 subset; avg scores on 55 langs via XCOMET-XXL. * MAXIFE: Accuracy on EN + multilingual prompts (23 settings total). * MMLU-ProX: Avg accuracy across 29 languages. * Empty cells (--) indicate scores not yet available.
In coding agents, Qwen3.7-Max performs strongly on SWE-Pro (60.6), SWE-Multilingual (78.3), SciCode (53.5), and QwenSVG (1608). On Terminal Bench 2.0-Terminus (69.7), it outperforms DS-V4-Pro Max (67.9). On SWE-Verified (80.4), it is on par with Opus-4.6 Max (80.8) and DS-V4-Pro Max (80.6).
In general-purpose agents, improvements are even more pronounced. Qwen3.7-Max performs exceptionally well on MCP-Mark (60.8 vs. GLM-5.1’s 57.5), MCP-Atlas (76.4 vs. Opus-4.6’s 75.8), and Skillsbench (59.2 vs. K2.6’s 56.2), and demonstrates strong GPU kernel optimization capabilities on Kernel Bench L3 (1.98x median speedup, 96% win rate). It also scores highly on BFCL-V4 (75.0), Qwenclaw (64.3), and ClawEval (65.2), closely approaching Opus-4.6 Max. On the office automation benchmark SpreadSheetBench-v1, it achieves a top-tier score of 87.
In reasoning, Qwen3.7-Max achieves leading results on GPQA Diamond (92.4 vs. Opus-4.6’s 91.3), HLE (41.4 vs. Opus-4.6’s 40), HMMT 2026 Feb (97.1 vs. Opus-4.6’s 96.2), IMOAnswerBench (90 vs. DS-V4-Pro’s 89.8), and Apex (44.5 vs. DS-V4-Pro’s 38.3), demonstrating exceptional strength on the hardest reasoning benchmarks.
In general capabilities and multilingualism, Qwen3.7-Max stands out on IFBench (79.1 vs. DS-V4-Pro’s 77.0), demonstrating precise instruction following. It achieves leading scores on WMT24++ (85.8) and MAXIFE (89.2), confirming top-tier multilingual understanding and translation quality. It also delivers strong results on SuperGPQA (73.6) and QwenWorldBench (57.3).
Notably, these scores are drawn from a wide variety of agent scaffolds. Rather than optimizing for any single framework, Qwen3.7-Max delivers consistently across Claude Code, OpenClaw, Qwen Code, and custom tool-use frameworks, making it a reliable drop-in backbone for any agent system.
Qwen3.7-Max serves as your advanced coworker for real-world productivity. Its powerful agent capabilities fundamentally streamline professional workflows — synthesizing complex information, performing in-depth data analysis and modeling, and generating publication-ready documents and visualizations — to reliably handle high-complexity enterprise workloads.
Qwen3.7-Max features native compatibility with mainstream agent harnesses. For long-horizon tasks, it supports autonomous planning and continuous execution across multi-hour sessions. Through thousands of tool calls and dozens of refinement iterations, it steadily improves output quality. Complex projects that typically require one to two weeks of specialized team effort can now be completed end-to-end within hours, delivering measurable productivity gains.
Building on the environment scaling approach introduced in Qwen3.5, we have continued to aggressively expand both the quality and diversity of agentic training environments in Qwen3.7. Just as language models generalize from diverse pretraining text, we find that agentic capabilities generalize from diverse training environments.
As shown in the figure below, this environment scaling produces a clear and consistent improvement trajectory, with Qwen3.7-Max achieving a top-3 average ranking that approaches Claude-4.6-Opus-Max. Crucially, all benchmarks in our evaluation feature entirely unseen, out-of-domain environments that were never present in training.
We also observe a striking predictability in the scaling behavior: performance gains across any subset of benchmarks are highly consistent and can reliably predict the relative gains on the remaining benchmarks or the overall average, suggesting that environment scaling drives genuine capability generalization rather than benchmark-specific improvement. Further analysis of the scaling dynamics and methodology will be detailed in our upcoming technical report.
Our Rollout environment infrastructure decouples each training instance into three orthogonal components — Task, Harness, and Verifier — that can be freely recombined. We support a wide range of harnesses and their evolving versions, and ground our environments in real-world settings rather than synthetic proxies. This decoupled design enables combinatorial scaling: the same task is paired with diverse harnesses (across types and versions) and verifiers at minimal marginal cost. More critically, it enables cross-harness and cross-verifier RL training, where the model encounters identical tasks under varying harness configurations, forcing it to learn generalizable problem-solving strategies rather than harness-specific shortcuts. Across QwenClawBench and CoWorkBench, Qwen3.7-Max delivers strong, consistent performance regardless of the harness used at evaluation time, confirming that the model has learned to solve tasks — not to exploit particular harnesses.
Extend Attention is a production-grade, variable-length multi-head attention operator in SGLang. In our test scenario, it computes attention scores between newly generated tokens and a prefix KV-cache of up to 32K entries with MTP — a memory-bound, latency-critical kernel in LLM serving. The reference implementation is SGLang’s official Triton implementation.
We tasked Qwen3.7-Max with optimizing this kernel on an ECS instance equipped with T-Head ZW-M890 PPUs — a hardware platform never seen during training. The model had no prior profiling data, no hardware documentation, and no example kernels for this architecture. It started from an empty workspace containing only a task description, the existing SGLang implementation, and an evaluation script.
Over the course of ~35 hours of continuous autonomous execution, the model performed 432 kernel evaluations across 1,158 tool calls. It wrote, compiled, profiled, and iteratively improved the Extend Attention Kernel entirely on its own — diagnosing compilation failures, fixing correctness bugs, identifying performance bottlenecks through runtime profiling, and redesigning the kernel architecture multiple times.
The final result: 10.0x geometric mean speedup over the Triton reference, measured across multiple workloads. The optimization trajectory shows sustained, non-trivial progress far beyond the first few hours: the model was still finding meaningful improvements after 30+ hours, demonstrating that long-horizon autonomous optimization is not just feasible but productive.
\nKey structural transitions in the optimization trajectory
Split-KV parallelism (0.33x → 2.58x, ~2h): The initial kernel launched only 8 blocks (4 tokens × 2 KV heads × 1 batch) on 36 SMs, leaving most SMs idle. The model redesigned the kernel with Split-KV partitioning — dividing the prefix KV-cache across multiple thread blocks per query — and introduced a separate reduction kernel using online softmax rescaling to merge partial results.
Launch and allocation overhead removal (2.58x → 5.37x, ~2.5h): The model systematically removed host-device synchronization overhead: replacing per-call cudaMalloc/cudaFree with pre-allocated torch::empty tensors, eliminating synchronous cudaMemcpy calls for prefix length queries by using tensor metadata instead, and unrolling the inner loop 2x to amortize loop control overhead and increase instruction-level parallelism.
Workload-adaptive split tuning (5.37x → 6.85x, ~3h): The model evolved from a fixed split divisor to workload-size-dependent heuristics — applying more aggressive splitting for smaller inputs and tuning per-workload split counts to maximize SM wave occupancy on the 36-SM architecture.
Reduction and batching optimizations (6.85x → 8.50x, 3h–25h): Eliminating shared memory barriers by switching to register-based K/V loading for higher SM occupancy, persistent static tensors for partial results to avoid per-call allocation, more aggressive split heuristics for small inputs, and a batched softmax update (4 expf calls instead of 6) to reduce per-token overhead. Q pre-scaling by sm_scale eliminated a per-iteration floating-point multiply after warp reduction.
MTP γ=4 specialized kernel (8.50x → 10.0x, 32h–35h): The most significant architectural redesign — restructuring the kernel to process all 4 query tokens simultaneously per block, sharing K/V loads across queries to amortize memory access cost. Combined with __ldg read-only cache intrinsics for V buffer loads, multi-query batched attention output reduction, register pressure tuning, and re-tuned split heuristics, this delivered the final ~1.2x improvement in the last hours.
We also ran the same task with several other models under identical conditions. GLM 5.1 reached 7.3x; Kimi K2.6 reached 5.0x; DeepSeek V4 Pro reached 3.3x; Qwen3.6-Plus reached 1.1x. Models that stopped early did so because the agent issued no tool calls for five consecutive rounds — the model concluded it could no longer make progress and voluntarily ended the session.
In addition to achieving strong kernel generation results on PPUs, Qwen3.7-Max also generates high-quality, production-grade kernels across a variety of NVIDIA GPUs. For example, on KernelBench L3, Qwen3.7-Max is able to produce accelerated kernels for 96% of the scenarios, compared to 98% for Opus-4.6, 78% for GLM 5.1, 80% for Kimi K2.6, 54% for DeepSeek V4 Pro, and 48% for Qwen3.6-Plus.
This result highlights two properties of Qwen3.7-Max as a foundation model powering long-horizon autonomous agents: sustained long-horizon reasoning — the model maintains coherent optimization strategy across over a thousand tool calls without losing context or regressing — and strong in-context generalization — it produces competitive kernels for an architecture it has never encountered, relying on runtime feedback rather than memorized hardware knowledge.
Reward Hacking Monitoring for Long-Horizon Training#
We integrated Qwen3.7-Max into the Reinforcement Learning (RL) monitoring for Software Engineering (SWE) tasks, successfully building a framework for reward hacking self-monitoring and rule self-evolution. During RL experiments exceeding 80 hours, the model autonomously retrieved and replayed training trajectories, executing over 10,000 calls. The system systematically identified candidate hacking patterns (such as attempts to bypass constraints to access ground-truth answers on GitHub) while performing rule verification, counter-example mining, and iterative optimization.
As a result, Qwen3.7-Max achieved multiple rounds of rule self-evolution, adding 13 new heuristic rules and accurately flagging 1,618 hacking cases. This not only ensured the stability of RL rewards but also facilitated the continuous self-improvement of the model as a sophisticated software engineering agent.
Long-Horizon Planning and Execution in Startup Management#
Within the framework of Dynamic Cumulative Survival Games, we have scaled the temporal complexity of training tasks to specifically reinforce long-horizon planning and execution capabilities. This advancement enhances the agent’s policy consistency throughout sequential decision-making trajectories exceeding a thousand steps, enabling it to continuously construct hypotheses, dynamically adjust strategies based on environmental feedback, and accumulate long-term experience and memory. Consequently, the agent maintains a stable execution cadence over vast time horizons, remaining resilient to the common pitfalls of context rot and instruction drift.
In YC-Bench — a benchmark simulating the full year-long lifecycle of a startup — the agent must navigate hundreds of decision-making rounds ranging from personnel management and contract screening to malicious client identification, all while maintaining a profit margin against rising labor costs. Qwen3.7-Max achieved a total revenue of 2.08M USD, which is double the performance of Qwen3.6-Plus (1.05M USD) and 5.9 times that of Qwen3.5-Plus (352K USD), successfully completing 237 tasks. Beyond the metrics, the model demonstrated a profound capacity for strategic evolution across context windows: it actively explored potential clients, identified and blacklisted malicious traps, prioritized reliable revenue streams, and autonomously recovered from mid-term crises to eventually converge into a stable, high-efficiency execution loop.
Qwen3.7-Max supports the preserve_thinking feature: preserving thinking content from all preceding turns in messages, which is recommended for agentic tasks.
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio supports industry-standard protocols, including chat completions and responses APIs compatible with OpenAI’s specification, as well as an API interface compatible with Anthropic.
"""\nEnvironment variables:\n DASHSCOPE_API_KEY: Your API Key from https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com\n DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL: (optional) Base URL for compatible-mode API.\n - Beijing: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - Singapore: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - US (Virginia): https://dashscope-us.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n"""\nfromopenaiimportOpenAI\nimportos\n\napi_key=os.environ.get("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\nifnotapi_key:\nraiseValueError(\n"DASHSCOPE_API_KEY is required. "\n"Set it via: export DASHSCOPE_API_KEY='your-api-key'"\n)\n\nclient=OpenAI(\napi_key=api_key,\nbase_url=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL",\n"https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",\n),\n)\n\nmessages=[{"role":"user","content":"Write a Python function to merge two sorted linked lists."}]\n\ncompletion=client.chat.completions.create(\nmodel="qwen3.7-max",\nmessages=messages,\nextra_body={\n"enable_thinking":True,\n# "preserve_thinking": True,\n},\nstream=True\n)\n\nreasoning_content=""\nanswer_content=""\nis_answering=False\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Reasoning"+"="*20+"\\n")\n\nforchunkincompletion:\nifnotchunk.choices:\nprint("\\nUsage:")\nprint(chunk.usage)\ncontinue\n\ndelta=chunk.choices[0].delta\n\nifhasattr(delta,"reasoning_content")anddelta.reasoning_contentisnotNone:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint(delta.reasoning_content,end="",flush=True)\nreasoning_content+=delta.reasoning_content\n\nifhasattr(delta,"content")anddelta.content:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Answer"+"="*20+"\\n")\nis_answering=True\nprint(delta.content,end="",flush=True)\nanswer_content+=delta.content\n
Qwen3.7-Max can generate rich interactive web applications from a single prompt — including Three.js 3D scenes, Canvas animations, full page layouts, and dynamic SVG.
Build a “MONOLITH” luxury fashion magazine cover as an interactive web page.\nYou have access to a video generation script at scripts/dashscope-video-gen.sh that can generate AI videos.
STEP 1 — Generate 3 custom videos by running these commands:\nbash scripts/dashscope-video-gen.sh “Extreme close-up cinematic portrait of a high fashion model, dramatic side lighting, black and white with crimson red lipstick, wind blowing hair slowly, Vogue cover aesthetic, shallow depth of field” assets/demo-videos/monolith-hero.mp4 9:16 5
bash scripts/dashscope-video-gen.sh “Cinematic slow-motion haute couture fashion runway walk, dramatic chiaroscuro spotlight, silhouette emerging from darkness, editorial magazine film look with grain” assets/demo-videos/monolith-knockout.mp4 9:16 5
bash scripts/dashscope-video-gen.sh “Overhead cinematic shot of luxury fashion magazine open pages being slowly turned, golden jewelry and perfume bottle on black marble, dramatic spotlight, editorial still life” assets/demo-videos/monolith-editorial.mp4 16:9 5
STEP 2 — Build the web page using the generated videos:\nHERO: Full-viewport portrait video (monolith-hero.mp4 as muted autoplay looping background) with duotone overlay. Knockout headline “MONOLITH” revealing monolith-knockout.mp4 playing through transparent text.\nEDITORIAL: Below-fold split layout with monolith-editorial.mp4 in a magazine-page container with page-curl hover effect, and pull-quotes with architectural line accents.\nDESIGN: Monochrome + crimson accent, grain overlay, minimal masthead, scroll-triggered animations, sticky top bar with issue number and date.
Do not ask follow-up questions. Do not wait for user input. Pick reasonable defaults and complete the artifact. Write all code to a single index.html file. Run the video generation commands first, wait for them to complete, then build the HTML.
I want to build a Three.js WebGL page that shows instancing dynamic. Can you make it a single standalone HTML file that works when I just open it in a browser?
Qwen3.7-Max can act as an intelligent office assistant through tool integration. In this example, it reads a university thesis formatting specification and automatically reformats a messy draft — fixing page layout, heading styles, fonts, margins, table of contents, and reference formatting — all through autonomous office-cli tool calls. (The sample thesis is AI-generated for demonstration purposes.)
One more thing, Qwen3.7-Max now can operate a robot dog through tool-use calls — performing physical understanding, planning, memory and decision-making in physical environments, powered by our robotics agent harness Qwen-RobotClaw, navigation foundation model Qwen-RobotNav, and several vision tools built with Qwen-plus model. In the demo below, the left panel shows a 20 mins agent’s tool-call interaction flow in the physical-world; the center shows the quadruped robot’s first-person view along its trajectory, and the right shows the agent’s long-term memory.
Qwen3.7-Max is our most versatile and capable model for agent-driven workflows. From coding and office automation to long-horizon autonomous tasks, it combines frontier-level reasoning with robust cross-scaffold generalization and the ability to sustain productive execution over extended periods — providing a powerful foundation for building the next generation of AI agents. We welcome community feedback and look forward to seeing what you build.
@misc{qwen37,\ntitle={{Qwen3.7}: The Agent Frontier},\nurl={https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.7},\nauthor={{Qwen Team}},\nmonth={May},\nyear={2026}\n}\n
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Qwen-RobotWorld: Boundless Worlds for Embodied Agents
Embodied intelligence requires agents to perceive, reason about, and act within physical environments. World models offer a scalable path forward — but current approaches face a fundamental tension. General video generation models learn rich visual priors but lack the ability to model embodied physics. Domain-specific embodied models are tailored to individual scenarios and cannot generalize across embodiments.
Qwen-RobotWorld bridges this gap by treating natural language as a universal action interface. A single instruction like \"pick up the red cup and place it on the shelf\" implicitly encodes the complete action sequence, goal state, and physical constraints — no robot-specific control interface needed. This allows manipulation, autonomous driving, and indoor navigation to be trained jointly, with each domain's physical knowledge reinforcing the others.
Language unifies the action space: world knowledge and embodied knowledge reinforce each other within a single model, enabling cross-scenario, cross-task physical generalization.
Language-Driven Unified Action Interface — natural language standardizes 20+ robot embodiments and 500+ action categories into one interface, enabling joint cross-scenario training
Dual-Stream Diffusion World Model — MMDiT with Qwen2.5-VL as action encoder, combining deep language understanding with internalized physical world knowledge
Cross-Scenario Physical Generalization — manipulation, driving, navigation, and human-to-robot transfer jointly trained under 8.6M video-text pairs
Multi-View Geometrically Consistent Generation — synchronized 2–4 camera streams with 3D-consistent object identity and motion trajectories
Qwen-RobotWorld adopts a dual-stream Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MMDiT):
Understanding stream processes semantic features from a frozen Qwen2.5-VL encoder, representing the language action $a_t$.
Generation stream processes visual latents from a video-compatible VAE, representing the visual state $s_t$.
The two streams interact via joint attention at every layer, enabling bidirectional cross-modal fusion throughout the denoising process.
Using an MLLM as the action encoder — rather than lightweight encoders like T5 or CLIP — provides two key advantages: (1) deep language understanding accurately parses complex, compositional instructions into precise condition signals; (2) internalized world knowledge (e.g., that robot arms are rigid bodies with fixed joint constraints) implicitly constrains physically plausible transitions, preventing common failure modes like object deformation across frames.
Scene2Robot enables cross-embodiment video editing: human demonstrations are retargeted to 14 robot morphologies via a multi-segment conditioning mechanism, where joint attention allows the generation to simultaneously attend to scene appearance and robot motion trajectory. This capability both serves as a data scaling engine during training and enables human-to-robot transfer at inference time.
Single-camera observation inevitably occludes critical contact and spatial details. Qwen-RobotWorld generates 2–4 synchronized camera streams — main view, wrist-mounted views, and third-person views — with geometrically consistent object identity and motion across all viewpoints. During training, synchronized frames from multiple cameras are spatially concatenated into a single input; the model generates all views simultaneously, with asymmetric 3D RoPE providing spatial encoding and attention layers naturally establishing cross-view correspondence — without any architectural modification. This cross-view consistency further acts as a geometric regularizer, teaching the model object shape, depth, and spatial layout.
The central challenge in building a universal world model is representational heterogeneity: manipulation uses joint angles, driving uses steering commands, navigation uses heading vectors — each requiring a separate model. Our action-language mapping framework resolves this by projecting all action signals onto a shared natural language space, so that videos from a Franka gripper, an autonomous vehicle, and a navigation agent all become instances of the same language-conditioned video generation task.
A hierarchical five-layer annotation pipeline ensures caption quality and precision:
1
Task GoalHigh-level intent — what should change between states
2
Action DetailSpatio-temporal trajectories with explicit viewpoint declaration
3
Physical FeedbackObservable consequences on the environment
4
Comprehensive CaptionFull description for precise prediction
5
Concise CaptionEssential elements for brief task-level commands
During training, comprehensive and concise descriptions are sampled with equal probability, so the model handles both detailed trajectory specifications and brief task-level commands.
Training follows a general-to-expert progressive curriculum:
Stage
Phase
Data Mix
Objective
Pretraining
T2I / T2V / TI2V joint
General data
Build foundational visual priors
Human interaction
Ego4D, EPIC-Kitchen, etc.
Grasping & tool-use priors
SFT
Phase 1: Single-view manipulation
Embodied + general joint training
Core manipulation physics
Phase 2: Multi-view expansion
Broaden viewpoint coverage
Phase 3: Multi-view concatenation
Cross-view geometric consistency
Phase 4: Complex cross-domain
Long-horizon & cross-scenario
Pretraining on general data and human interaction videos (Ego4D, EPIC-Kitchen) builds broad visual priors — the T2I task specifically anchors object geometry that transfers to video generation through the shared backbone. SFT then progressively deepens embodied expertise across four phases while keeping general data in every batch, ensuring both capabilities advance together rather than trade off.
Given identical initial frames, the model produces qualitatively distinct videos when a single keyword differs. It also handles complex, multi-step instructions requiring long-horizon reasoning.
Contrastive Instruction Following:
L: Pick up the red strawberry R: Pick up the yellow potato
L: Place pen on the wooden tray R: Place pen on the white paper
L: Hand glue to the person R: Place glue into the penholder
Complex Multi-Step Instructions:
Sequentially pick up the red and yellow bell peppers, place them on the table from left to right
Grab the yellow-and-blue stacked block, position it above the green-and-blue stacked block
The Scene2Robot mechanism preserves task intent from a human demonstration (left) while adapting motion to embodiment-specific kinematic constraints (right).
The learned world model generalizes beyond robot manipulation to broader mobility scenarios.
Autonomous Driving. Generated driving episodes from Bench2Drive, NVIDIA PhysicalAI-AD, Sekai, and Waymo demonstrate coherent scene dynamics and vehicle behaviors.
Indoor Navigation. Egocentric navigation episodes from VLNVerse show the model’s ability to simulate first-person movement through complex indoor environments.
From tabletop manipulation to autonomous driving and indoor navigation — Qwen-RobotWorld demonstrates that a unified world model can generalize beyond a single morphology or scenario family.
We evaluate against general video generation models (Sora2, Veo3, Wan2.6, Kling, LTX-2) and embodied world models (Cosmos, LVP, GigaWorld, Vidar, Wow) across four benchmarks.
EWMBench
4.60
Embodied motion fidelity
DreamGen
4.952
Instruction following & physics alignment
WorldModelBench
8.99
Physical reasoning & instruction following
PBench
0.804
Physical behavior evaluation
EWMBench
Type
Model
SceneC
HSD
Dyn
nDTW
Diversity
BLEU
CLIP
Logics
Overall
General
Veo3
0.842
0.213
0.193
0.161
0.022
0.214
0.897
0.947
3.49
Wan2.6
0.671
0.203
0.090
0.172
0.050
0.162
0.874
1.000
3.22
Kling
0.821
0.327
0.182
0.342
0.017
0.259
0.901
1.000
3.85
LTX-2
0.785
0.208
0.128
0.244
0.012
0.143
0.887
0.500
2.91
Sora2
0.853
0.281
0.349
0.275
0.031
0.247
0.910
0.947
3.89
Embodied
Cosmos
0.796
0.250
0.205
0.253
0.080
0.123
0.846
0.733
3.29
GigaWorld
0.871
0.305
0.085
0.278
0.028
0.205
0.887
0.900
3.56
LVP
0.880
0.425
0.043
0.623
0.009
0.218
0.900
0.952
4.05
Vidar
0.734
0.188
0.152
0.177
0.065
0.161
0.882
0.941
3.30
Wow
0.887
0.249
0.053
0.257
0.027
0.193
0.900
0.952
3.52
Ours
0.914
0.566
0.343
0.671
0.011
0.208
0.883
1.000
4.60
Strong motion fidelity (HSD 0.566), high scene consistency (0.914), and perfect logic constraint satisfaction.
DreamGen Bench
Model
GR1-Env PA
GR1-Env IF
GR1-Object PA
GR1-Object IF
GR1-Behavior PA
GR1-Behavior IF
Total
Cosmos-sft
0.709
0.655
0.775
0.720
0.649
0.621
4.129
LVP
0.810
0.772
0.745
0.829
0.713
0.889
4.758
Vidar
0.445
0.647
0.478
0.726
0.394
0.651
3.341
GigaWorld
0.621
0.933
0.500
0.852
0.426
0.884
4.216
Wow
0.793
0.826
0.755
0.849
0.809
0.696
4.728
Ours
0.828
0.793
0.840
0.878
0.781
0.832
4.952
Strong object-level compositional generalization (GR1-Object IF: 0.878), with consistent physics alignment across all subsets.
WorldModelBench
Type
Model
Instr. (0-3)
Frame
Temp
Newton
Mass
Fluid
Penetr.
Grav.
Phys.
Total
General
Veo3
2.52
0.98
0.95
1.00
0.89
0.99
0.91
1.00
4.80
9.25
Wan2.6
2.50
0.99
0.95
1.00
0.89
0.99
0.94
1.00
4.83
9.27
Sora2
2.21
0.96
0.93
1.00
0.91
0.99
0.95
1.00
4.84
8.93
Kling
1.59
0.97
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
5.00
8.55
LTX-2
1.97
0.69
0.62
0.99
0.60
1.00
0.73
1.00
4.32
7.61
Embodied
Cosmos
2.14
1.00
0.94
1.00
0.92
1.00
0.94
1.00
4.86
8.94
LVP
2.01
0.89
0.91
1.00
0.93
0.99
0.95
1.00
4.87
8.67
GigaWorld
2.13
0.59
0.46
1.00
0.48
0.99
0.69
0.98
4.13
7.31
Vidar
1.62
0.54
0.45
1.00
0.56
1.00
0.85
1.00
4.40
7.01
Wow
2.05
0.76
0.65
1.00
0.65
0.99
0.81
1.00
4.45
7.91
Ours
2.33
0.87
0.85
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.94
1.00
4.94
8.99
Perfect physics adherence (1.00) across Newton's laws, mass conservation, fluid dynamics, and gravity, with strong instruction following (2.33/3.0).
PBench
Type
Model
I2V-Bg
I2V-S
Aes
Img
Bg-Con
Mot
Sub-Con
O-Con
Quality
Domain
Overall
General
Veo3
0.975
0.980
0.526
0.698
0.938
0.994
0.927
0.128
0.771
0.882
0.827
Wan2.6
0.856
0.843
0.514
0.719
0.906
0.978
0.843
0.136
0.724
0.832
0.778
Sora2
0.981
0.973
0.487
0.672
0.961
0.994
0.954
0.129
0.769
0.841
0.805
Kling
0.982
0.979
0.521
0.699
0.920
0.990
0.927
0.124
0.768
0.874
0.821
LTX-2
0.948
0.955
0.506
0.622
0.932
0.986
0.904
0.118
0.746
0.845
0.796
Embodied
LVP
0.979
0.981
0.515
0.679
0.954
0.991
0.962
0.116
0.772
0.812
0.792
GigaWorld
0.957
0.944
0.495
0.641
0.925
0.984
0.892
0.128
0.746
0.841
0.794
Wow
0.967
0.957
0.517
0.689
0.941
0.980
0.929
0.111
0.761
0.786
0.774
Vidar
0.935
0.922
0.501
0.573
0.912
0.982
0.863
0.120
0.726
0.810
0.768
Cosmos
0.974
0.973
0.470
0.663
0.940
0.989
0.931
0.160
0.763
0.840
0.802
Ours
0.956
0.943
0.455
0.649
0.956
0.990
0.933
0.124
0.751
0.857
0.804
Strong domain understanding (0.857) and motion smoothness (0.990), reflecting consistent temporal coherence across physical scenarios.
If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.
@article{qwenrobot-world,\ntitle={Qwen-RobotWorld Technical Report: Unifying Embodied World Modeling through Language-Conditioned Video Generation},\nauthor={Qwen Team},\nyear={2026}\n}\n
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Qwen-RobotManip: Alignment Unlocks Scale for Robotic Manipulation Foundation Models
Qwen-Omni × Qwen-RobotManip — Qwen-Omni observes the scene, randomly proposes manipulation tasks via speech, and judges execution in real time. Each video shows Qwen-RobotManip completing tasks on the fly with no pre-defined task list, demonstrating open-ended instruction following and generalization.
Qwen-RobotManip is validated across various real-robot platforms and tasks, demonstrating strong generalization to novel scenes, unseen language instructions, and cross-embodiment transfer.
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Foundation models in language and multimodality have achieved remarkable generalization because heterogeneous data sources can be aligned under a unified formulation, and abundant low-cost internet data allows diverse training signals to reinforce one another at scale. But can this scaling recipe be applied to robotic manipulation?
This is challenging. Unlike text or images, manipulation data is heterogeneous by nature, expensive to collect, and narrow in diversity. Aligning representations across different robot embodiments, sensors, and task domains while simultaneously scaling the data has remained an open problem.
Qwen-RobotManip is a generalizable Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model built upon Qwen-VL. It introduces a unified alignment framework across the representation, motion, and behavioral dimensions of manipulation, making large-scale multi-source training coherent rather than conflicting. Using only open-source robotic manipulation datasets and human demonstration videos without any proprietary data collection, Qwen-RobotManip constructs a ~38,100 hours pretraining corpus and already exhibits emergent generalization capabilities.
Without unified cross-embodiment alignment, scaling data produces conflicts; without data diversity, alignment alone cannot generalize. Alignment and scale are tightly coupled prerequisites for robotic foundation models.
>38K Hours of Manipulation Data Across 15 Embodiments
Dominant
OOD Generalization Across All Benchmarks
#1
RoboChallenge Table30 v1 Generalist Track Sweeping Top 2, 20% Ahead of 3rd Place
Unified Cross-Embodiment Alignment Framework — a unified 80-dimensional state-action representation accommodates diverse embodiments, camera-frame end-effector delta poses make visually similar motions numerically proximate, and in-context policy adaptation reads execution history as an implicit embodiment identifier — together enabling consistent signal extraction across embodiments
Human-to-Robot Synthesis at Scale — a pipeline converting 1,933h of egocentric human video into 24,808h of robot demonstrations across 15 embodiments via action retargeting, hand removal and inpainting, simulated rendering, and depth-guided compositing, coupled with a multi-stage curation pipeline ensuring data quality
OOD Generalization: LIBERO-Plus 91.4% (+7.0 over π0.5), RoboTwin-C2R Hard 69.4% (+21.5 over π0.5), RoboCasa365 Composite-Unseen 14.9% (3× next best), EBench 45.6% (+18.5 over next best); RoboTwin-IF 72.0% (+22.4 over π0.5) confirming genuine language-conditioned control; 3× next best on RoboTwin-XE showing zero-shot cross-embodiment transfer
Strong Real-World Performance: #1 on RoboChallenge Table30 v1 generalist track with 45% SR, sweeping top 2 and leading 3rd place by 20%; validated on real-robot platforms with 2× prior SOTA on in-domain and OOD tasks, few-shot adaptation, and cross-embodiment skill transfer
Robot manipulation data is scarce and expensive to collect. We introduce a Human-to-Robot synthesis pipeline that converts egocentric human manipulation videos into robot demonstrations across 15 robot embodiments via human-to-robot retargeting, hand removal and inpainting, and depth-guided robot compositing.
We design a multi-stage curation pipeline to ensure VLA training data quality and annotation correctness. Five state-action filtering stages remove noisy actions, fix temporal misalignment, and verify kinematic consistency. Three cross-modal checks then validate that language instructions match the video content, that visual observations agree with recorded robot states, and that video frames are free of corruption.
Qwen-RobotManip couples a Qwen3.5-4B vision-language backbone with a flow-matching Diffusion Transformer (DiT) action head. Three design choices enable coherent cross-embodiment training:
Canonical State-Action Representation. All robot states and actions are mapped to a unified 80-dimensional vector covering single-arm, dual-arm, dexterous hand, and mobile base configurations. A per-dimension binary mask ensures gradients flow only through populated slots, ensuring different embodiments share the same representation without conflict.
Camera-Frame Delta Pose. End-effector actions are expressed as deltas in the camera coordinate frame rather than the robot base frame, making visually similar actions numerically proximate across embodiments. Camera extrinsics are injected via Camera Positional Encoding (CaPE) in the cross-attention layers, while intrinsics are encoded into visual tokens for field-of-view awareness. The DiT is further conditioned on end-effector type embeddings for embodiment-aware action denoising.
In-Context Policy Adaptation. The model conditions action prediction on a structured embodiment prompt (specifying robot platform, execution speed, and FPS) together with a historical observation-action chunk, enabling on-the-fly adaptation to different embodiments and behavior patterns. A stochastic context sampling strategy during training prevents action-copy shortcuts and forces genuine policy learning.
Training. Pre-training uses dual-stream co-training with a VLA stream (robot manipulation data) and a VLM stream (vision-language understanding data) at a 9:1 ratio. Post-training adopts generalist SFT on all demonstration data collected for each benchmark. We propose co-training with VL data and VLA data during post-training, which further improves OOD instruction following and generalization.
A critical finding in our experiments: standard benchmarks systematically fail to capture the quality of pretraining.\nOn in-distribution benchmarks like LIBERO and RoboTwin, models trained from scratch without any large-scale robot pretraining achieve performance comparable to previous SOTA pretrained models. Strong IID scores do not indicate genuine generalization; they can be achieved through pattern matching alone.
The separation only becomes visible under out-of-distribution evaluation: novel scenes and task variations, following unseen instructions, and cross-embodiment transfer. This is why Qwen-RobotManip adopts OOD benchmarks as the north star for evaluating robotic foundation models.
Qwen-RobotManip substantially outperforms all previous models across three OOD generalization axes: task and scene variations, instruction following, and cross-embodiment transfer.
Qwen-RobotManip achieves 89.0% and Qwen-RobotManip-Context achieves 91.4% overall. The per-dimension breakdown shows that Camera and Robot perturbations benefit most from large-scale robot data pretraining, while Language and Light robustness is already provided by the VLM backbone.
RoboTwin-Clean2Rand — Models are fine-tuned on the Clean dataset and tested under progressive environmental randomizations:
Model
Easy
Background
Light
Clutter
Height
Hard
StarVLA
58.1
27.1
50.9
24.2
48.4
10.6
GR00T-N1.7
43.6
40.4
41.9
27.1
39.0
20.7
$\\pi_{0.5}$
73.1
67.0
69.2
57.9
67.6
47.9
Qwen-RobotManip
73.2
74.6
68.4
61.3
71.0
62.6
Qwen-RobotManip-Context
84.7
82.4
84.2
75.4
79.5
69.4
Qwen-RobotManip achieves the highest Hard success rate (62.6%), retaining ~86% of its Easy performance compared to 66% for $\\pi_{0.5}$ and under 30% for models without pretraining. Qwen-RobotManip-Context further achieves 69.4% on Hard, demonstrating the effectiveness of in-context policy adaptation.
RoboCasa365 — Evaluation across atomic and long-horizon manipulation in diverse kitchen environments:
Model
Atomic
Composite-Seen
Composite-Unseen
Total
$\\pi_{0}$
36.3
5.2
0.7
15.0
$\\pi_{0.5}$
39.6
7.1
1.2
16.9
GR00T-N1.5
50.7
14.8
2.7
23.9
RLDX-1
63.0
27.5
5.4
33.2
Qwen-RobotManip
68.6
20.1
14.9
35.9
Qwen-RobotManip-Context
63.9
22.6
11.2
33.8
On Composite-Unseen, which requires completing long-horizon tasks in OOD scenes, Qwen-RobotManip achieves 14.9%, nearly 3× the next-best model (5.4%).
EBench — Mobile manipulation across tabletop, pick-and-place, and long-horizon tasks:
Model
TableTop
SimplePnP
LongHorizon
Overall
SR
Score
SR
Score
SR
Score
SR
Score
π₀
15.7
30
35.0
39
17.0
41
23.6
37
π₀.₅
12.9
32
45.0
50
18.1
39
27.1
41
X-VLA
8.6
24
50.0
54
6.2
25
23.7
36
InternVLA-A1
4.3
11
43.0
47
17.9
46
23.9
36
Qwen-RobotManip
50.0
70
56.5
60
29.9
55
45.6
60
Qwen-RobotManip-Context
49.3
56
55.0
66
26.6
55
43.6
59
Qwen-RobotManip achieves 45.6% overall SR and a composite score of 60, outperforming $\\pi_{0.5}$ (27.1% / 41) and all other baselines by a large margin across every split.
RoboTwin-IF — Instruction following with held-out unseen instruction templates:
Model
Pick-Diverse
Place-Rel.
Ope.-Mic-Dr.
Ope.-Stapler
Ope.-Table
Average
StarVLA
11
13
0
49
74
29.4
GR00T-N1.7
20
17
0
14
32
16.6
$\\pi_{0.5}$
44
20
15
92
66
49.6
Qwen-RobotManip
79
57
42
90
93
72.2
Qwen-RobotManip-Context
77
71
33
89
90
72.0
Qwen-RobotManip achieves 72.2% average, a +22.6 point lead over $\\pi_{0.5}$. The largest gains appear on tasks where the instruction must be parsed to select the correct action among multiple plausible alternatives, confirming genuine language-conditioned control.
Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment — Trained on AgileX ALOHA data only, evaluated on unseen robot embodiments on our RoboTwin-XE benchmark:
Model
ARX
UR5
Franka
Total
$\\pi_{0.5}$ (joint)
24.6
2.2
0.9
9.2
$\\pi_{0.5}$ (eef)
11.5
10.0
1.1
7.5
Qwen-RobotManip (joint)
37.6
4.1
1.8
14.5
Qwen-RobotManip (eef)
42.9
22.8
5.9
23.9
Camera-frame EEF representation dramatically improves zero-shot transfer by abstracting away morphological differences. Qwen-RobotManip (eef) reaches 23.9% overall, 3.2× $\\pi_{0.5}$ (eef) at 7.5%.
An important finding: only models with unified cross-embodiment representations exhibit clean log-linear data scaling behavior. Without the alignment framework (UnifiedSpace + UnifiedEEF), adding more data produces erratic or flat scaling curves. This confirms that alignment is the prerequisite for scale, not the other way around.
Few-shot adaptation. All methods are jointly finetuned on only 130 teleoperated demonstrations across 5 tasks. Qwen-RobotManip outperforms both baselines on 4 of 5 tasks:
Task
Sub-step
StarVLA
$\\pi_{0.5}$
Ours
Put Fruits
Place 1 / 2 / 3
3/1/0
9/5/2
9/5/3
Avg. success
13.3%
53.3%
56.7%
Put Blocks
Open / Place1 / Place2 / Close
1/1/0/0
4/2/2/2
5/4/3/3
Avg. success
5.0%
25.0%
37.5%
Fold Towel
Fold 1 / Fold 2
0/0
3/1
3/3
Avg. success
0.0%
20.0%
30.0%
Insert Screw
Handover / Insert
0/0
2/0
2/0
Avg. success
0.0%
10.0%
10.0%
Unscrew Cap
Grasp / Unscrew / Place
4/0/0
9/2/1
9/4/3
Avg. success
13.3%
40.0%
53.3%
Cross-embodiment skill transfer. A single policy jointly finetuned on 6K CobotMagic and 130 ARX demonstrations is evaluated on 4 novel tasks on ARX, for which ARX has zero training demonstrations:
Model
Stack Plates
Stack Blocks
Fruits in Plate
Trash in Bucket
Avg.
w/o UnifiedSpace
0/10
0/10
3/10
0/10
7.5%
w/o UnifiedEEF
0/10
0/10
5/10
0/10
12.5%
Qwen-RobotManip
3/10
5/10
7/10
7/10
55.0%
The full unified framework achieves 55.0%, over 4× the best ablation variant, demonstrating that the unified representation enables skill-level transfer across kinematically different embodiments.
In the RoboChallenge Table30 v1 Generalist Track, which spans 30 tasks across 4 robot platforms, Qwen-RobotManip ranks 1st with 45% success rate and 59.83 process score, outperforming the runner-up by 20%. On 8 bimanual coordination tasks, it achieves 40% success versus $\\pi_{0.5}$’s 21.2%.
Bimanual coordination. Among the 30 benchmark tasks, 8 require tight bimanual coordination on the ALOHA platform, where the two arms must jointly stabilize, transport, and manipulate objects. Qwen-RobotManip achieves 40% average success rate, far exceeding $\\pi_{0.5}$ (21.2%), DM0 (16.2%), GR00T-MULTI (7.5%), and $\\pi_0$ (7.5%). Notably, Qwen-RobotManip is the only model to succeed on “pour fries into plate” (30% vs. 0% for all baselines), a task demanding sequential bimanual steps — stabilizing the fries box with the left arm, opening it with the right arm, picking it up, and pouring the contents onto the plate. We attribute this strong bimanual performance to two factors: (1) our pretraining corpus contains a substantial proportion of bimanual demonstration data, enabling the model to learn coordinated dual-arm control primitives; and (2) the Human-to-Robot synthesis pipeline further expands the effective bimanual pretraining data by synthesizing bimanual robot demonstrations from egocentric human videos.
Robust pick-and-place across embodiments. We identify 12 tasks across all four platforms that center on pick-and-place primitives, ranging from single-object grasping to multi-step sequential manipulation involving 4–5 objects. Qwen-RobotManip achieves 63.3% average success rate on these tasks, surpassing the next-best baseline DM0 (48.3%) by 15.0 percentage points. We attribute this capability to two factors: (1) the large-scale cross-embodiment pretraining data encodes abundant pick-and-place patterns, and (2) the unified action space enables knowledge sharing of fundamental spatial skills across different robot morphologies.
Reactive error recovery. When objects slip during grasping, the model autonomously retries until successful. This behavior emerges from pretraining at scale, not from explicit programming.
Qwen-RobotManip demonstrates that the scaling recipe behind language and multimodal foundation models can be extended to robotic manipulation, but only when alignment and scale work in tandem. The unified cross-embodiment representation is what makes large-scale multi-source training productive rather than conflicting, and the Human-to-Robot synthesis pipeline provides the data diversity that alignment alone cannot supply.
Embodied intelligence is still at an early stage. Contact-rich, long-horizon real-world tasks, failure recovery, continual learning, and complex human-robot-environment interactions remain challenging. Yet Qwen-RobotManip points to a clear path forward:
Alignment unlocks scale, and scale unlocks generalization.
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Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence
The Qwen family of foundation models already gives strong perception and reasoning about the physical world. But seeing is not acting: the gap between vision and language understanding and physical control remains the central bottleneck for embodied intelligence. The Qwen-Robot Suite bridges this gap with three foundation models — Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, and Qwen-RobotWorld. Nav unifies five navigation task families through a controllable observation protocol. Manip turns heterogeneous robot data into a coherent canonical space, enabling cross-embodiment training at scale. World co-trains 20+ embodiments via a natural-language action interface under one world model. Together, they enable an agentic system where general intelligence translates directly into physical action.
The Qwen family of multimodal foundation models has made remarkable progress in understanding the physical world. Qwen-VL can parse complex spatial relationships, identify objects in cluttered scenes, follow multi-step visual instructions, and reason about physical configurations, giving physical agents a preliminary cognitive foundation. A VLM can already plan in language: “go to the kitchen, find the red cup, pick it up, and place it on the shelf.”
But understanding the physical world is not the same as acting in it. A VLM that can plan those steps cannot produce the motor commands that execute them. This is fundamentally an alignment challenge that language instructions and physical action signals live in different representation spaces, and bridging them requires more than perception alone. What makes this harder is that the embodied data needed to close this gap is fundamentally unlike internet text. It is heterogeneous by nature, expensive to collect, and narrow in diversity. A navigation trajectory, a tele-operated grasp, and a dashcam clip live in incompatible action spaces, observation formats, and embodiments. Naively pooling them produces conflict rather than synergy.
The Qwen-Robot Suite bridges this gap with three foundation models — Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, and Qwen-RobotWorld — each aligning language with a different domain of physical action. We pursue generalization across language instructions and adherence to physical laws, and have achieved significant progress on both fronts. In this post, we also explore the potential of these models as low-level tools for building general-purpose agentic systems.
Qwen-RobotNav: The Gateway to Mobility for Physical Agents — bridges the vision-language representation space into mobility actions through controllable observation encoding and a tool interface for agentic systems, unifying instruction following, point/object-goal navigation, target tracking, and autonomous driving.
Qwen-RobotManip: The Foundation of Interaction for Physical Agents — bridges the vision-language representation space into manipulation actions through a canonical state-action space and camera-frame delta poses, enabling coherent cross-embodiment training on a >38,100-hour open-source corpus.
Qwen-RobotWorld: Infinite Worlds for Physical Agents — bridges the vision-language representation space into world dynamics through a natural-language action interface, enabling a single world model to predict physically grounded futures across manipulation, driving, and navigation.
Each has its own technical report and deep-dive blog. This post tells the story of how they fit together.
Before an agent can manipulate anything, it has to get there. Mobile navigation spans tasks with fundamentally different memory requirements: instruction following demands long-horizon context while target tracking cares almost entirely about recent frames. No fixed observation strategy serves both.
Qwen-RobotNav, built on Qwen3-VL, addresses this through a parameterised navigation interface with two complementary dimensions: task modes that select the navigation behaviour (instruction following, object search, target tracking, autonomous driving), and controllable observation parameters (token budget, temporal decay, per-camera weights, frame sample mode) that govern how visual history is encoded. Trained on 15.6 million samples with co-training on vision-language data to preserve grounded perception, Qwen-RobotNav unifies five task families under a single set of weights. The parameterised interface also makes Qwen-RobotNav a natural building block for agentic systems. An upper-level planner (Qwen3.7-Plus) decomposes long-horizon goals into sub-tasks and dynamically switches Qwen-RobotNav’s task mode and context strategy mid-episode, composing complex behaviours from repeated calls to the same model. This extends the system to long-horizon reasoning with persistent memory, enabling it to solve complex user intents that require multi-step navigation, evidence gathering, and grounded response generation.
Highlights:
5 Domains 8 SOTAs
One Model Unifies VLN, ObjNav, Tracking, Driving & EQA
Context = Interface
4-Axis Observation Protocol Zero Architecture Change
Agentic
Navigation as a Tool Call + Two-Level Memory Raises the new bar on EQA
Generalization
In-the-Wild Single-Camera Deployment in Unseen Environments
Unified Multi-Domains Navigation: a single model with one set of weights achieves state-of-the-art across 5 navigation domains: 76.5% SR on VLN-CE RxR, 75.6% SR on HM3Dv2 object-goal (RGB only, surpassing depth-based methods), 90.0% tracking rate on EVT-Bench, 91.4 PDMS on NAVSIM, and new bests on 3 EQA benchmarks, with consistent scaling from 2B to 8B parameters.
Controllable Observation Protocol: four axes (visual token budget, temporal decay, per-camera weighting, frame sample mode) are exposed as inference-time parameters and randomized per sample at training time, enabling any inference-time configuration without retraining or architectural modification.
Agentic Navigation System: designed as a reconfigurable navigation primitive within a two-tier system, where an upper-level planner (Qwen3.7-Plus) decomposes long-horizon goals and dispatches configurable navigation calls while maintaining two-level memory, achieving +15.4% on EXPRESS-Bench with 77% fewer navigation steps over prior best.
In-the-Wild Generalization: deployed zero-shot on a Unitree Go2 quadruped with its single low-resolution build-in camera, demonstrating strong generalization to in-the-wild environments and unconstrained natural-language instructions without any environment-specific fine-tuning.
Benchmarking Qwen-RobotNav
Deployment
Deployed zero-shot on a Unitree Go2 quadruped (NVIDIA Jetson Thor, 196ms latency) using only the built-in low-resolution camera. The robot executes step-by-step verbal instructions across multiple rooms in a previously unseen apartment.
Instruction Following
We evaluate a back-and-forth navigation task in an unseen exhibition hall: the robot first navigates 21.78 m from a living room to a hospital room following language instructions, then receives a reverse command and must precisely retrace the entire route. This is particularly challenging as it requires the model to maintain spatial awareness over long distances, ground diverse visual landmarks in both forward and reverse directions, and execute accurate bidirectional position control purely from language.
Cross Embodiment
A single set of weights serves both legged robot navigation and autonomous driving. On NAVSIM closed-loop driving, Qwen-RobotNav-4B achieves 91.4 PDMS.
Qwen-RobotManip: The Foundation of Physical Interaction#
MANIPULATE
Physical agents need to interact with the real world — for example, completing manipulation tasks with robot arms. Yet an industrial arm on a production line and a service arm in a kitchen may perform visually similar grasping motions while having entirely different joint configurations and action spaces. The core challenge is making heterogeneous embodiments representationally compatible, so that scaling across robots and data sources produces synergy rather than conflict.
Qwen-RobotManip, built on Qwen3.5-4B VL with a flow-matching DiT action head, introduces three mechanisms to solve this. A unified 80-dimensional state-action representation is shared across single-arm, dual-arm, dexterous-hand, and mobile embodiments. Camera-frame end-effector delta pose actions make visually similar motions numerically proximate across robots, abstracting away morphological differences. In-context policy adaptation reads execution history as an implicit embodiment signature for on-the-fly adaptation.
Once the representation framework is unified, the data barrier drops. We train the VLA model on 11,320 hours of open-source robot data, 1,933 hours of open-source egocentric human video, and 24,808 hours of robot demonstrations across 15 embodiments synthesized from the human video via our Human-to-Robot synthesis pipeline — totaling >38,100 hours. Using only open-source data, the model already exhibits emergent generalization capabilities, including robustness to perturbations, zero-shot instruction following, reactive error recovery, and cross-embodiment transfer.
>38K Hours of Manipulation Data Across 15 Embodiments
Dominant
OOD Generalization Across All Benchmarks
#1
RoboChallenge Table30 v1 Generalist Track Sweeping Top 2, 20% Ahead of 3rd Place
Unified Cross-Embodiment Alignment Framework — a unified 80-dimensional state-action representation accommodates diverse embodiments, camera-frame end-effector delta poses make visually similar motions numerically proximate, and in-context policy adaptation reads execution history as an implicit embodiment identifier — together enabling consistent signal extraction across embodiments
Human-to-Robot Synthesis at Scale — a pipeline converting 1,933h of egocentric human video into 24,808h of robot demonstrations across 15 embodiments via action retargeting, hand removal and inpainting, simulated rendering, and depth-guided compositing, coupled with a multi-stage curation pipeline ensuring data quality
OOD Generalization: LIBERO-Plus 91.4% (+7.0 over π0.5), RoboTwin-C2R Hard 69.4% (+21.5 over π0.5), RoboCasa365 Composite-Unseen 14.9% (3× next best), EBench 45.6% (+18.5 over next best); RoboTwin-IF 72.0% (+22.4 over π0.5) confirming genuine language-conditioned control; 3× next best on RoboTwin-XE showing zero-shot cross-embodiment transfer
Strong Real-World Performance: #1 on RoboChallenge Table30 v1 generalist track with 45% SR, sweeping top 2 and leading 3rd place by 20%; validated on real-robot platforms with 2× prior SOTA on in-domain and OOD tasks, few-shot adaptation, and cross-embodiment skill transfer
Key Finding — Alignment is the prerequisite for scale.\nOnly models with unified cross-embodiment representations (UnifiedSpace + UnifiedEEF) exhibit clean log-linear data scaling. Without alignment, adding more data produces erratic or flat curves — scale cannot compensate for a broken formulation.
Diverse Real-World Tasks
A single generalist policy handles complex manipulation across diverse task categories, scenes, and objects.
Instruction Following
Following diverse unseen instructions across real-world settings (top row) and simulation (bottom row).
Cross-Embodiment Transfer
Tasks trained on other embodiments transfer zero-shot to new ones (top row); few-shot demonstrations enable rapid adaptation to entirely new tasks (bottom row).
Real-world experience is the scarcest resource in robotics. Qwen-RobotWorld addresses this by learning the world’s state transition function directly: given the current observation and a natural-language action, it predicts what the world will look like next. The key design choice is expressing all actions in natural language — this converts end-effector poses, steering commands, and navigation waypoints into a single interface, enabling 20+ embodiment types and 500+ action categories to be co-trained under the Embodied World Knowledge corpus (8.6M video-text pairs, 200M+ frames). A 60-layer dual-stream MMDiT couples Qwen2.5-VL’s semantic representations with video latents. Using a full multimodal LLM as the action encoder — rather than a lightweight text encoder — is load-bearing: it brings internalized world knowledge that arms are rigid bodies, fluids spread, and objects fall, implicitly constraining generation toward physically plausible futures. Each domain reinforces the others: manipulation teaches contact physics, driving teaches 3D geometry, navigation teaches room-scale spatial reasoning.
Highlights:
Top-Tier
Across 4 Benchmarks
20+
Robot Embodiments Unified
8.6M
Cross-Scenario Training Pairs
1300+
Manipulation Skills
Language-Driven Unified Action Interface — natural language standardizes 20+ robot embodiments and 500+ action categories into one training interface, enabling manipulation, driving, navigation, and human-to-robot transfer to be jointly trained; each domain reinforces the others
Dual-Stream MMDiT + Qwen2.5-VL Action Encoder — a full multimodal LLM as action encoder (not a lightweight text encoder) parses complex compositional instructions into precise generation signals with internalized physical world knowledge, serving as a synthetic data engine, closed-loop policy evaluator, and action planner
Rankings: 1st overall on EWMBench (motion fidelity +33% over runner-up) and DreamGen Bench; 1st open-source on WorldModelBench (perfect physics adherence on Newton’s laws, mass conservation, fluid dynamics) and PBBench
Capabilities: Fine-grained language grounding (changing one keyword → different future); human-to-robot transfer across 8+ embodiments with multi-view consistent generation; zero-shot robustness on RoboTwin-IF
Any Instruction Following
Changing a single keyword — object, destination, or action verb — produces a correspondingly different future. The world model truly understands language, not just pattern-matches.
Different Object
Pick up red strawberry
⇄
Pick up yellow potato
Different Embodiment
Assemble camera parts
⇄
Assemble camera parts
Different Destination
Place pen on wooden tray
⇄
Place pen on white paper
Different Action
Extend glue forward
⇄
Place glue into penholder
Multi-View Consistent Generation
Given a single instruction, Qwen-RobotWorld generates temporally and spatially consistent videos across multiple camera viewpoints — critical for sim-to-real transfer and multi-camera policy training.
View More Multi-View Examples (16 more)
Human → Robot Transfer
Given a human demonstration, Qwen-RobotWorld generates realistic robot execution across diverse embodiments — no teleoperation required.
ARX-L5
Human Demo
→
Robot Execution
xArm7
Human Demo
→
Robot Execution
Franka Panda
Human Demo
→
Robot Execution
Sawyer
Human Demo
→
Robot Execution
View More Embodiments (Kinova Gen3, Piper, KUKA iiwa, Kinova Jaco)
Kinova Gen3
Human Demo
→
Robot Execution
Piper
Human Demo
→
Robot Execution
KUKA iiwa
Human Demo
→
Robot Execution
Kinova Jaco
Human Demo
→
Robot Execution
Autonomous Driving & Indoor Navigation
Driving teaches large-scale 3D geometry and multi-agent dynamics; navigation teaches room-scale spatial reasoning. Each domain reinforces the others.
Each model is independently useful — but because all three expose language-first interfaces, general-purpose Qwen models can compose with them as physical-world tools, connecting general intelligence to physical action. We have an in-hourse project Qwen-RobotClaw, a robotics agent harness that allows Qwen VLM agents to call Qwen-Robot Suite models as physical-world tools while properly managing the context and memory required by long-horizon tasks, pushing physical intelligence toward more general and more complex real-world applications. Here are early examples of what this makes possible.
Open-Ended Task Execution
Qwen-Omni observes the scene, randomly proposes manipulation tasks via speech, and judges execution in real time. Each video shows Qwen-RobotManip completing tasks on the fly with no pre-defined task list — demonstrating that a general-purpose multimodal model can serve as the task proposer and evaluator, while the suite model handles physical execution.
Long-Horizon Manipulation
We develop a VLM-driven agentic VLA system, in which the base Qwen-3.5 model serves as the high-level planner and Qwen-RobotManip handles low-level execution. Leveraging its capabilities in scene understanding, spatial reasoning, and task progress assessment, Qwen-3.5 decomposes a complex high-level instruction into a sequence of atomic subtasks, which are then executed by the VLA. This division of labor significantly improves robustness to OOD scenes and instructions.
We illustrate this with a table-cleaning task on a cluttered tabletop with a basket. Given such a fully OOD scene and abstract instruction, directly using the VLA model exhibits clearly abnormal behavior (right). With Qwen-3.5 as the planner, the system decomposes the task into fine-grained atomic subtasks in real time (left), allowing the VLA to focus on one simple step at a time and demonstrating compositional generalization.
We also observe that subtask decomposition helps the system recover from failure-and-retry loops. When the high-level VLM detects that execution has stalled, it replans by issuing a new subtask, enabling the system to resume progress and ultimately complete the task successfully.
Agent + VLA (success)
VLA alone (failure)
Agentic Navigation & Embodied QA
By combining the agent system with Qwen-RobotNav, we achieve a substantial improvement over previous state of the art on long-horizon 3D physical-world exploration tasks, including Embodied Question Answering benchmarks such as HM-EQA, MT-HM3D, and EXPRESS-Bench. We can also deploy the same open-world exploration capability in real environments, as shown in the demos below. We will release more technical details in future updates.
In the first demo, the user asks the agent to find an open restroom in a real building. The agent scans the environment, follows corridor-level cues to search for restroom signage, discovers that the first restroom is unavailable due to a visible \"Cleaning in Progress / 暂停使用\" sign, and then replans to search for an alternative on the other side of the building. After verifying from visual evidence that the second restroom is open and accessible, it returns an evidence-grounded answer.
In the second demo, which was previously released together with Qwen3.7-Max, the agent calls Qwen-RobotNav to autonomously explore an open campus environment, correct its deviations along the way, and finally recover a lost umbrella.
Chat2Robot
We provide an experimental feature — Chat2Robot — where you can chat with a robot directly in your browser. Simply type a natural-language instruction, and watch the robot respond in real time. Give it a try and experience Qwen-Robot Suite in action!
Note: Chat2Robot currently supports Qwen-RobotManip only. The deployed policy is trained solely on the RoboTwin-Clean dataset, which contains only 50 tasks — it is not a perfect policy. Our goal here is to demonstrate a degree of zero-shot instruction following capability. This feature is still under active development and may not be fully polished — we welcome your feedback and suggestions!
Physical world intelligence is still in its infancy. Contact-rich long-horizon tasks, lifelong learning, tighter integration between general-purpose planners and physical-world executors, and richer human-robot-environment interaction all remain open. But the path is becoming clear: start from strong multimodal understanding, bridge the vision-language representation space into each type of physical action, scale the training, and demand generalization.
A physical agent that can go anywhere, do anything, and foresee what comes next.
That is the destination — and the Qwen-Robot Suite is our first full step towards it.
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Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents
Today we release Qwen-AgentWorld, a native language world model that simulates agent environments across seven domains:
Native world modeling: environment modeling is the training objective from continual pre-training onward (CPT → SFT → RL), not a post hoc adaptation on top of a general-purpose LLM.
Seven domains, one model: a single model simulates text-based (MCP, Search, Terminal, SWE) and GUI-based (Web, OS, Android) environments, with knowledge transferring across domains.
Together with the model, we release AgentWorldBench, a seven-domain evaluation benchmark with paired ground-truth observations from real environments.\nBoth are available on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
Language agents are trained to act in interactive environments, but no language model has been explicitly trained to model the environments themselves — to predict what happens next given the current state and an agent’s action.
Roadmap: Qwen-AgentWorld represents our attempt to investigate how world modeling built on language models can further push the boundaries of general agent capabilities.
We explore both how to achieve language world modeling and how to apply it to advance general agents:
First, we build a foundation model for agentic environment simulation: Qwen-AgentWorld is the first language world model to cover seven agent interaction domains within a single model (MCP, Search, Terminal, SWE, Web, OS, Android), trained through CPT → SFT → RL on more than 10M real environment interaction trajectories. On AgentWorldBench, Qwen-AgentWorld-397B-A17B achieves the highest overall simulation quality, outperforming GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.8, and Gemini 3.1 Pro.
Second, we investigate the role of world modeling in agent training through two complementary paradigms: as a decoupled environment simulator, it provides superior scalability and controllability for agentic RL. Controllable simulated RL shapes agent behavior in ways that real environments cannot and significantly outperforms RL trained solely in real-world environments; as a unified agent foundation model, LWM warm-up enables effective transfer to multi-turn agentic tasks across seven benchmarks, including three entirely out of domain, without requiring any RL fine-tuning on agentic tasks, providing initial validation that language world models can serve as a foundation for building stronger agent models.
Qwen-AgentWorld: a native language world model across seven unified domains, with two complementary paradigms for enhancing general agents.
Explore real agent-environment conversations simulated by Qwen-AgentWorld across all seven domains. Click any thinking trace to see the model’s internal reasoning.
Part I: Building the Foundation Model for Agentic Environment Simulation#
Qwen-AgentWorld covers seven categories of interactive environments. For the three GUI domains, environment observations take the form of renderable code (accessibility tree XML, HTML, UI hierarchy markup) rather than pixel frames, enabling text-only world modeling of visual environments.
Domain
What the LWM simulates
Representative prediction
Text Environments
Terminal
Command-line environment: shell output, file system state, process behavior
Complete shell output for multi-step command pipelines
Qwen-AgentWorld is trained end-to-end with environment modeling as the explicit objective from continual pre-training onward. The three-stage pipeline follows one principle: CPT injects, SFT activates, RL sharpens.
Stage 1: Continual Pre-Training (CPT) injects environment knowledge through non-thinking trajectories. The data draws from dedicated agent infrastructure (containerized execution sandboxes, MCP servers, Android/web/OS emulators), open environment interaction traces, and in-house agentic trajectories. Beyond environment data, we incorporate specialized-domain world knowledge corpora spanning industrial control, cybersecurity, law, medicine, finance, and current affairs. A key contribution is turn-level information-theoretic loss masking: four surface-level statistics per (action, observation) pair identify turns carrying genuine environment information, and mask the rest from the loss while retaining them as context.
Stage 2: Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) activates next-state prediction as an explicit thinking pattern via <think>...</think> blocks. We use rejection sampling to select high-quality thinking trajectories, resulting in 7,094 training samples.
Stage 3: Reinforcement Learning (RL) sharpens output quality with hybrid rewards. We use GSPO for RL training. The reward combines a rubric-based LLM judge evaluating multi-dimensional quality with rule-based verifiers for domains where exact correctness can be checked programmatically.
Overview of AgentWorldBench: domain distribution, source benchmarks, evaluation dimensions, and per-domain trajectory statistics.
To evaluate language world models, we introduce AgentWorldBench, a comprehensive benchmark constructed from real-world observations of 5 frontier model trajectories on 9 established benchmarks, such as Tool Decathlon, Terminal-Bench 1.0 & 2.0, and OSWorld-Verified.\nEvery evaluation sample is paired with a ground-truth observation obtained from real environment execution, enabling reference-grounded scoring.\nAgentWorldBench evaluates world modeling quality through open-ended rubric judging across 5 dimensions — format, factuality, consistency, realism, and quality — probing the reasoning, knowledge, and long-context capabilities.
AgentWorldBench results: five-dimensional rubric mean per domain. Qwen-AgentWorld-397B-A17B achieves the highest overall score (58.71), outperforming GPT-5.4 (58.25) and other frontier models.
Qwen-AgentWorld-397B-A17B achieves the highest overall average (58.71), surpassing GPT-5.4 (58.25) and all other frontier models. The advantage is most pronounced on Terminal and SWE, the two domains where predictions require accurate modeling of code execution state and tool API behavior.
At the 35B-A3B scale, the three-stage pipeline lifts the overall average by +8.66 points (47.73 → 56.39), bringing Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B above Claude Sonnet 4.6 (56.04). The improvement is consistent across both text and GUI domains.
Beyond aggregate performance, what makes a language world model interesting is how it reasons. We analyze 129 thinking traces across four text-based domains and find three emergent reasoning patterns.
LWM reasoning patterns: deliberative self-correction, information leakage prevention, and multi-step causal reasoning.
Deliberative self-correction. The model uses “Wait!” as a cognitive interrupt to revise intermediate predictions. Across 129 turns, we count 1,347 such interrupts (10.4 per turn), spanning factual errors, epistemological limits (“I cannot actually execute np.random.seed(42)”), and perspective-taking.
Information leakage prevention. In the Search domain, the model holds a reference answer that the agent is trying to find. When the query is unrelated, the model prevents leakage by ensuring snippets do not accidentally reveal the target — the world-model equivalent of theory of mind.
Multi-step causal reasoning. Predicting the output of curl -s localhost:3000 | python3 -m json.tool requires a six-step chain: Node.js missing → server never started → no listener on port 3000 → curl fails silently → empty pipe → json.tool raises JSONDecodeError.
Part II: Investigating the Role of World Modeling in Agent Training#
We investigate two complementary paradigms through which world modeling enhances general agents.
Not to Replace Real Environments, Not for Cost Reduction, but as a Complementary Axis for Pushing the Frontier
What a language world model does. In an agent-environment interaction loop, the policy decides what to do and the world model predicts what happens next. A language world model takes the current interaction history and an agent’s action, and predicts what the environment would return: the terminal output, the API response, the updated DOM. This is not template-based generation. Faithful simulation requires multi-step causal reasoning (chaining six system-knowledge steps to predict a curl pipeline failure), stateful tracking (maintaining referential integrity across nine sequential Notion API calls), and domain-specific knowledge (Unix semantics, API schemas, browser rendering rules).
Why not just/only use real environments? Real-environment interaction remains the gold standard for grounding agent behavior. Language world models are not designed to replace it, nor are they primarily a cost-reduction measure. Instead, LWMs open a complementary axis to supplement real environments:
(1) Scalability and controllability beyond real environments. An LWM enables turn-level scaling of diverse environments without dedicated infrastructure (sandboxes, GUI virtual machines), spanning extreme scenarios, real-world tasks, and high-value professional domains where real execution is infeasible due to irreversible operations or proprietary deployments. Beyond scalability, LWMs offer precise controllability: targeted perturbations that are rare or absent in real environments can systematically expose agent weaknesses. Training against these perturbations helps agents handle edge cases that real-environment training alone cannot cover, ultimately surpassing agents trained solely in real environments.
(2) Internalized world prediction as an agent capability. A capable general agent should possess both decision-making and world-modeling abilities. World modeling enables agents to predict future environment states to refine action selection, effectively performing mental simulation as an internal planning step — whereas traditional agent training focuses solely on state-to-action decision-making. Next-state prediction is thus internalized as a meta-reasoning pattern similar to “reflection” but oriented toward the future: predict before you act. Furthermore, accurate next-state prediction itself requires reasoning, knowledge, instruction following, and long-context handling — capabilities that are foundational to general agents.
What makes general-purpose language environment simulation possible? Building a general-purpose language world model requires three ingredients working together. First, environment diversity: training on trajectories from as many distinct environments as possible, so the model encounters the full spectrum of state-transition patterns rather than memorizing a narrow set. Second, cross-domain generalization: our experiments show that training on a single text domain yields gains on all other text domains, suggesting shared underlying environment modeling capabilities that compound as domain coverage grows. Third, world knowledge through CPT: environment trajectories alone cannot provide the factual grounding needed for faithful simulation. Simulating a regulatory compliance platform requires legal knowledge; simulating search-engine responses on current events requires up-to-date factual coverage. By incorporating specialized-domain world knowledge corpora (industrial control, cybersecurity, law, medicine, finance, current affairs) during continual pre-training, the model acquires the factual substrate on which environment simulation depends. These three ingredients, environment diversity, cross-domain transfer, and world knowledge, together enable a single model to serve as a general-purpose simulator across seven agent interaction domains.
As a standalone simulator, where the policy agent and the world model are separate models, Qwen-AgentWorld provides scalability and controllability that real environments cannot. In this Sim RL setup, the world model replaces the real environment during agent RL training: the agent acts, the world model predicts the next observation, and the agent learns from these simulated rollouts. Key findings:
Zero-shot environment generalization. Qwen-AgentWorld simulates 4k OpenClaw environments entirely absent from training, yielding Sim RL gains of +4.3 on Claw-Eval and +7.1 on QwenClawBench with no domain-specific adaptation.
Controlled simulation matters. Uncontrolled Sim RL provides negligible improvement; controllable perturbations lift MCPMark by +12.3 and WideSearch by +16.3, far exceeding uncontrolled Sim RL.
Surpassing real-environment training. Controllable Sim RL exceeds Real RL trained against a live search engine (50.3% vs. 45.6% F1), while shaping more targeted agent behavior through adversarial snippet design.
Fictional worlds work. Agents trained in fully invented, self-consistent worlds generalize to real search tasks, while structurally preventing the agent from confusing simulated facts with real-world knowledge.
State is the bottleneck. Sim RL effectiveness depends on providing the world model with a sufficiently detailed initial state; without it, simulation fidelity degrades and downstream gains diminish.
We test whether the world model generalizes to environments entirely absent from training. OpenClaw is an open-source agent platform whose tasks span scheduling, coding, email triage, browser automation, and file management — entirely out of distribution for Qwen-AgentWorld. We simulate 4,000 OpenClaw environments for agent RL training, without any domain-specific adaptation, and also ablate the simulator itself: using Qwen3.6-Plus as the simulator yields negligible improvement, while Qwen-AgentWorld-397B-A17B produces substantial gains — confirming that world-model quality is the bottleneck for Sim RL. The agent learns little from interacting with an unfaithful simulator.
Claw-Eval
QwenClawBench
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
65.4
47.9
+ Sim RL (w/ Qwen3.6-Plus)
66.7
47.8
+ Sim RL (w/ Qwen-AgentWorld-397B-A17B)
69.7
55.0
Δ
+4.3
+7.1
* All scores averaged over 3 independent rollouts with 256K maximum sequence length.
The more powerful capability is controllability: using natural-language instructions to shape the simulator’s behavior during training. We validate two modes.
MCP: environment adaptation. We synthesize simulation system prompts from real MCP tool-use trajectories: each prompt specifies the tool schemas and server configuration, summarizes the hidden environment state (database contents, permission settings, service availability), and defines controllable simulation instructions that shape how the simulator responds at each turn. Control instructions inject targeted perturbations — intermittent API errors, paginated responses requiring follow-up calls, incomplete intermediate results that force multi-step retrieval, and partial failures in batch operations — to systematically expose agent weaknesses that real deployments rarely produce.
The results reveal a sharp contrast: standard Sim RL without control instructions provides no meaningful gain (Tool Decathlon actually drops from 32.4 to 31.5), because the simulator lacks sufficient grounding to produce faithful responses. With controllable simulation, Tool Decathlon improves by +3.7 and MCPMark by +12.3. Controllability is not merely a factor in the magnitude of improvement — it is a prerequisite for Sim RL to work at all in this domain. The larger gain on MCPMark (+12.3 vs. +3.7) suggests that controllable simulation is especially effective for tasks requiring many sequential tool calls and careful handling of intermediate results.
Tool Decathlon
MCPMark
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-SFT
32.4
21.5
+ Sim RL (uncontrolled)
31.5
24.6
+ Sim RL (controlled)
36.1
33.8
Δ
+3.7
+12.3
Search: fictional-world construction. We construct 1,000 self-contained fictional environments, each anchored by a relational database (300–500 rows) of internally consistent fictional facts. A time-shifted environment might contain a 2029 smartphone market ranking with real brand names but non-existent model numbers. Since answers exist only within the fictional setting, the agent cannot bypass the search tool by answering from parametric memory; since all facts are invented, the agent cannot confuse simulated facts with real-world knowledge.
Sim RL vs. Real RL on WideSearch: controllable Sim RL tracks or slightly exceeds Real RL trained with a live search engine.
Performance. We directly compare controllable Sim RL against Real RL (trained with a live search engine) on WideSearch. Sim RL tracks or slightly exceeds Real RL: F1 by Item reaches 50.3% at step 60, compared to 45.6% for Real RL.
Behavior. The more informative signal comes from agent behavior. Both regimes reduce web_search calls from ~5 to ~3.5 per trajectory, but web_extractor calls diverge sharply: Sim RL increases usage from 2.5 to 4.0, while Real RL decreases from 2.5 to 1.5. Because the simulated snippets deliberately withhold detailed content, the Sim-RL-trained agent learns that extracting full pages is necessary for assembling complete answers. Controllable simulation shapes agent behavior in targeted ways that real environments cannot.
In Paradigm I, the agent and world model are separate models. Here we unify them: the same model that selects actions also predicts environment states. LWM training instills next-state prediction as an internalized reasoning capability. Key findings:
Radical cross-task generalization. Single-turn, non-agentic LWM RL warm-up with no tool calls transfers to multi-turn, tool-calling agentic tasks across seven benchmarks of five domains.
Domain generalization. Gains emerge on completely out-of-distribution domains entirely absent from LWM training (+11.3 on Claw-Eval, +9.7 on QwenClawBench, +9.0 on BFCL v4), confirming transferable capabilities rather than domain-specific shortcuts.
Next-state prediction as meta-reasoning pattern. LWM training teaches the agent to mentally simulate environment responses before acting, which generalizes across task formats and domains.
We validate this by running LWM RL on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-SFT — a single-turn task with no tool calls — then evaluating directly on multi-turn, tool-calling agentic tasks across seven benchmarks without additional fine-tuning, including three out-of-domain benchmarks absent from LWM training.
In Domain
Out of Domain
Terminal-Bench 2.0
SWE-Bench Verified
SWE-Bench Pro
WideSearch F1 Item
Claw-Eval
QwenClawBench
BFCL v4
Base
33.3
64.5
42.2
33.4
53.6
39.8
62.3
+ LWM RL
39.6
67.9
47.4
46.2
64.9
49.4
71.3
Δ
+6.3
+3.4
+5.2
+12.8
+11.3
+9.7
+9.0
The out-of-domain results are particularly notable: the LWM training pipeline contains no Claw or function-calling data, yet gains of +11.3, +9.7, and +9.0 emerge on domains entirely absent from world-model training.
We have open-sourced Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B (Hugging Face, ModelScope), a language world model built on a MoE architecture with 35B total parameters / 3B active parameters, supporting a 256K context window. It can be deployed and used in the following ways.
AgentWorldBench is available on Hugging Face and Modelscope as per-domain JSONL files, each containing interaction trajectories with ground-truth observations from real environments. Evaluation uses a three-step pipeline via eval/eval.py: (1) infer — run the world model to generate predicted observations, (2) judge — score each prediction against the ground truth across five dimensions (format, factuality, consistency, realism, quality) using an LLM judge, (3) aggregate — compute per-domain and overall scores. Both the world model and the judge use OpenAI-compatible APIs, supporting SGLang, vLLM, or proprietary endpoints. See the GitHub README for full setup, data format, and example commands.
Qwen-AgentWorld is a native language world model covering seven agent interaction domains within a single model at two scales (35B-A3B and 397B-A17B). A three-stage recipe, CPT injects environment knowledge, SFT activates next-state-prediction reasoning, RL sharpens simulation fidelity, progressively builds world-modeling capability from the ground up. We investigate two complementary paradigms through which world modeling enhances general agents. As a decoupled simulator, we validate the effectiveness of controllable simulation on Tool Decathlon, MCPMark, and WideSearch, surpassing both uncontrolled simulation and real-environment training. As a unified agent foundation model, LWM warm-up transfers to multi-turn agentic tasks across seven benchmarks, including three entirely out-of-domain, providing initial validation that language world models can serve as a foundation for building stronger agent models. Language world modeling opens a complementary axis for scaling general agents beyond what real-environment interaction alone can provide.
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Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
We are launching Qwen-Image-3.0, the third-generation foundational image generation model in the Qwen-Image series. If the keyword for Qwen-Image-1.0 was “Precision”, and the keywords for Qwen-Image-2.0 were “Precision, Variety, Completeness, Beauty, and Authenticity”, then the core of Qwen-Image-3.0 comes down to a single word — “Real” (实).
This “Real” is embodied across three dimensions:
Rich Content: Supports up to 4.5k token input, effortlessly generating complex layouts such as newspapers, storyboards, and exam papers.
Authentic Details: Supports precise rendering of text as small as 10px, vividly reproducing details like pores and hair strands with lifelike, micro-level depiction.
Deep Knowledge: Supports native rendering of 12 languages, simulates mainstream interfaces such as web pages, games, and livestreams, and draws on rich world knowledge.
In a word, Qwen-Image-3.0 is not just pursuing “good-looking” — it is pursuing “useful”, making image generation a truly deployable productivity tool.
Let’s start with the image below, generated by Qwen-Image-3.0:
As you can see, Qwen-Image-3.0 can accurately render a math slide, including spatial relationships, mathematical symbols, theorem descriptions, and other rich visual content. This content is laid out reasonably, with proper relative positioning, and looks rich in information.
However, this is not the true strength of Qwen-Image-3.0. In fact, this is only “1/9” of its real capability, because this image is actually just one cell of a complex 3×3 grid generated by Qwen-Image-3.0. Let’s look at the original image:
That’s right — the entire image above was generated by Qwen-Image-3.0 in a single pass, rather than being stitched together from multiple images. The difficulty of this image lies in the fact that each cell is a complex infographic; to precisely describe the full 3×3 grid takes a full 3.7k tokens.
These 3.7k tokens must fully depict a tunnel safety comic, a spatial geometry lesson, a stylistic analysis of “Chu Shi Biao” (Memorial on Dispatching the Troops), physics projectile motion, a biology parasitology explainer, a medical diagram of right-side chest pain, the Sylow theorems of group theory, a bank internal-control management infographic, and a cell DNA structure comparison — each cell containing precise Chinese and English text, formulas, charts, cartoon characters, and more.
And yet this remains effortless for Qwen-Image-3.0 — because Qwen-Image-3.0 raises the acceptable instruction length to 4.5k tokens, which means the model can understand and render extremely complex, information-dense visual layouts.
This is an important characteristic of the “Rich Content” we mentioned: content can expand horizontally. Horizontal expansion reflects the model’s strength in semantic juxtaposition and spatial control — the ability to lay out multiple concepts in an orderly fashion within a single image and render them without mutual interference.
Beyond horizontal expansion, depth is another important characteristic of Rich Content.
Horizontal expansion tests “how many parallel elements can be placed on a single canvas,” while depth tests the model’s semantic deconstruction and logical nesting — whether it can render multiple nested interfaces layer by layer within a single image. The following example uses a single instruction to display, from outer to inner: a VSCode programming interface → a Qwen Chat interface → a Wechat interface → a pour-over coffee poster. Each layer preserves the authentic style and details of its respective UI, forming a “picture-in-picture-in-picture” visual depth.
The two examples above illustrate the meaning of “Rich Content” along both the horizontal and vertical dimensions.
If “Rich Content” addresses the question of “how much to draw,” then “Authentic Details” addresses the question of “how finely to draw.” Qwen-Image-3.0 reaches a new height in the rendering precision of micro-level details: 10px small text is clearly legible, pores and hair strands are rendered in fine detail, and skin texture approaches photographic realism. Let’s start with the precise rendering of small text.
Below is a knowledge infographic about whale sharks, containing a large amount of text and illustrations. Qwen-Image-3.0 is able to accurately render every region.
Academic papers are the ultimate stress test for small-text rendering — dense LaTeX formulas, subscripts and superscripts, Greek letters, and theorem numbering, where not a single symbol can go wrong.
The model renders a full page of an academic paper in the field of algebraic geometry, including multiple lines of complex formula derivations. LaTeX typesetting elements such as superscripts, subscripts, curly braces, fraction bars, and multi-line alignment are all accurately presented, maintaining excellent readability even at small font sizes.
Qwen-Image-3.0 can also generate fine text on realistic paper. The example below is a newspaper generated by Qwen-Image-3.0, in which the model not only accurately generates dense text but also simulates the authentic look of a newspaper.
In editing tasks, we can also generate fine text. For example, in the case below, the model produces annotations with a realistic style.
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The model overlays realistic red handwritten annotations onto the book page — underlines, wavy lines, circles, arrows, and short comments — with natural, fluent handwriting that perfectly simulates the style of a high school student’s class notes.
Beyond the fine reproduction of text and layout, “Authentic Details” also stands out in texture depiction. Below are two portrait photography examples in which the model captures extremely delicate textures.
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Beyond portraits, the model can also depict the delicate textures of other objects.
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In editing tasks, we can also generate images with rich details.
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Given a damaged or incomplete traditional painting, the model can restore the missing parts while faithfully maintaining the original artistic style and brushwork.
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The model completes the restoration of the eagle-combat painting with brushwork consistent with the original, preserving the ink-wash gradients, feather texture, and compositional balance while removing mold spots and signs of damage.
“Rich Content” answers “how complex can it draw,” “Authentic Details” answers “how lifelike can it draw,” and “Deep Knowledge” answers “how broadly can it draw.” Qwen-Image-3.0 possesses rendering capabilities covering 12 languages, multiple fonts, 100+ artistic styles, and a variety of UI interfaces — all backed by the model’s deep understanding of world knowledge.
In the three examples below, the model accurately renders Japanese, Korean, and Spanish respectively.\n
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Beyond accurate rendering of multiple languages, the model also possesses rich world knowledge. In particular, the model can generate various realistic UI interfaces.\n
We can also leverage the model’s powerful world knowledge to create infographics. In the example below, we generate a complex infographic based on a real image.
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While preserving the main subject of the original insect photograph, the model adds professional elements such as taxonomic information, morphological annotations, magnified detail views, and a scale bar, producing a research figure ready for direct use in academic publication.
In addition to the world knowledge the model already possesses, it can also connect to the internet to retrieve the latest world knowledge. For example, we can ask the model to generate a weather forecast image for Hangzhou on July 21.
The model can also find specific IP figures and create based on them. For instance, we can generate an image of Qi Baishi and Van Gogh introducing Qwen-Image-3.0 in a livestream room.
From the “Precision” of Qwen-Image-1.0, to the “Precision, Variety, Completeness, Beauty, and Authenticity” of Qwen-Image-2.0, and now to the “Real” of Qwen-Image-3.0 — the goal we have always pursued is to move image generation from “usable” to “practical,” and from “good-looking” to “useful.”
Supported by its three core features — “Rich Content, Authentic Details, and Deep Knowledge” — Qwen-Image-3.0 achieves significant breakthroughs in high-value productivity scenarios such as newspaper PDFs, short-drama storyboards, and complex UI interfaces. We believe that as the capabilities of image generation models continue to improve, they will unlock genuine productivity value in even more fields, including design, content creation, education, and e-commerce.
That concludes the main highlights of this update. We hope you enjoy using Qwen-Image-3.0!
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Agent benchmarks over the past few years have mostly followed one pattern. A goal is handed to the model, and the model tries to reach it within a bounded number of turns, whether that means finding the treasure in a maze, producing a report, or fixing a piece of code. Performance is then scored on the quality of the deliverable or on how much of the task got done, and evaluations of this kind usually come with a well-defined natural stopping point.
Most long-horizon tasks in the real world have no such natural stopping point. Weather forecasting, stock trading and running a business are all like that. An online store is never “finished operating” one morning. Inventory piled up last month, a price negotiated the day before yesterday and yesterday’s promotion all move today’s sales, and the agent has to keep adjusting its strategy inside a shifting market to hit a long-run profit goal.
To measure long-horizon operating ability, we partnered with Taobao & Tmall Group to release E-Commerce Bench, which evaluates how well a model runs online stores as a merchant in a realistic market. The model makes a long series of business decisions under limited time and limited capital, and has to absorb whatever the market throws at it.
¥100,000 in Capital, 365 Days of Continuous Operation #
The agent starts with ¥100,000 and may run several stores at once. Across a full simulated year it does what a real seller does every day, researching categories, haggling with suppliers, pricing and listing goods, watching the promotion calendar, and managing inventory and cash flow. The environment never reveals where the demand ceiling sits or what the true cost floor is, so both have to be discovered. At the end of the year we score the run along several dimensions, covering profit, cash-flow management, supplier negotiation, fraud avoidance, operational efficiency, execution, and learning over the horizon.
Figure 1: The four-layer architecture. The agent loop layer manages turns and context, the tool layer provides the e-commerce toolbox, the deterministic environment layer models customer demand and supplier behavior, and the data layer is driven by real Taobao & Tmall platform data
To reproduce a real e-commerce platform, we built in the following:
Real market data: 6,886 products spread over 60 categories, backed by 576 suppliers and 12 store types available to open, with 10 market events and 8 promotions fixed on the year’s calendar. Category sales, return rates and the holiday calendar are desensitized directly from Taobao & Tmall platform data.
A time budget: a day runs from 8am to 6pm and holds only 600 minutes, and every tool call spends some of them. Checking the balance costs 10 minutes, opening a store 60, sending one supplier a message 30. Research and action draw on the same budget, so thinking it through first and figuring it out along the way carry different prices.
Three-account settlement: every cost leaves the bank account the moment it is incurred, while revenue has to wait for the order to ship, gets its commission deducted, enters platform escrow, waits another 9 days to reach the platform wallet, and only turns back into spendable cash after a manual withdrawal to the bank.
Storage and shipping: inventory accrues a storage fee per unit per day, and closing the store does not stop the meter unless you are willing to liquidate at a loss. Shipping comes in three speeds, fast doubling the freight bill and slow halving it, and any order not dispatched within two days is canceled outright.
Returns and reputation: four things drive the return rate, the category’s own baseline, defective goods shipped by the supplier, how far above the reference price the agent priced, and which shipping tier it picked. The last two are under the model’s control. Reputation multiplies demand directly, a return costs 0.6 and a cancellation 1.0, and a store pinned at the bottom of the scale draws only 15% of normal traffic.
The Deterministic Negotiation Kernel and the Demand Model #
If market demand and supplier behavior were both random, the gaps between models would drown in noise, leaving the benchmark neither discriminative nor reproducible.
The customer side therefore does no sampling at all. How many units a product sells on a given day is computed from a set of named factors, the category’s base demand, the price response, weekends, promotions, seasonality, that day’s events, store reputation, and the market’s demand ceiling.
Figure 2: The four price-elasticity curves, and how one SKU's sales volume is decided by the chain of factors
On the supplier side, a deterministic kernel produces the quotes and the concession policy, and a model renders them into natural dialogue. Letting an LLM play the supplier directly breaks two things. First, the same negotiation strategy draws inconsistent quotes, so one agent meets different prices on two runs. Second, an LLM can be hacked, and a dishonest agent can talk or jailbreak the price below the cost floor, which turns the benchmark into a jailbreaking contest. Every supplier is therefore split into two layers:
Deterministic Negotiation Kernel: every quote, concession, acceptance and walk-away the supplier makes comes out of the kernel. The reservation price and the opening quote are intrinsic properties of the product rather than draws from a distribution.
NPC renderer: the LLM only turns the kernel’s committed decisions into human words, so the agent feels like it is bargaining with a real person.
The texture of multi-round haggling survives, and the sampling noise does not.
Figure 3: Inside a session the two sides' offers converge toward the middle. Across a year of restocking, some agents forget the low price they already won while others keep pushing the settled price down
Year-End Total Assets Are Only the Tip of the Iceberg: Seven Capability Axes #
We ran five complete episodes for each of 18 models. From the same ¥100,000 start, the outcomes come out orders of magnitude apart. GPT-5.6 Sol finished at ¥1.43M, 14.31 times its stake, while Qwen3.5-Plus averaged just ¥1,100 left. The strongest open-weight entry is Qwen3.8-Max-Preview at 4.16 times the stake, though the top four overall are all closed-source. Strong models are not guaranteed to win either. Ten of the 90 episodes ended in bankruptcy, and in two GPT-5.5 episodes the cash chain snapped in January after it stocked up too heavily, at a point when not a single yuan of sales revenue had settled.
Figure 4: Year-end total assets across 5 episodes for each of the 18 models, log axis. Red crosses mark bankrupt episodes, and the right-hand column gives the asset multiple and the bankruptcy rate
The year-end number by itself says nothing about how the year was spent. The 365-day curves fall into roughly three shapes. The leaders climb steadily from January onward. Bankrupt episodes drop and never come back, the earliest hitting bottom in January. The models in the middle and lower half hug the ¥100,000 line all year, a full year of work that ends where it began.
Figure 5: Total assets across the year for all 18 models, ordered by year-end mean. Thin lines are single episodes, the black line is the episode mean, and the dashed red line is the ¥100,000 stake
The road into bankruptcy is almost always the same one. Fill the warehouse in January, then never sell your way out of it.
Figure 6: One bankruptcy case day by day. Within a month buying far outran selling, storage costs climbed, and the cash chain snapped
Earning more is not the same as operating well. So alongside year-end total assets we score six further dimensions independently, negotiation quality, fraud avoidance, cash flow and solvency, operational efficiency, operations execution, and learning over the horizon. Drawn as a radar over seven axes, the shapes come out visibly uneven. Taking one model per vendor family, six of the seven fall below the 18-model median on at least one axis.
Figure 7: Capability profiles for one model from each of seven vendor families. The dashed polygon is the 18-model median, and not one profile fills it
Read axis by axis, several findings turn out to be more interesting than the asset total itself.
Negotiation quality: no model pushes a price down to the supplier’s cost floor. We score bargaining from 0 to 1, where 0.5 means never countering at all and simply taking whatever the supplier opens with. Claude Opus 4.7 reaches 0.811 and genuinely bargains a lot off the table, while Kimi K2.6 manages only 0.596, barely better than accepting the opening quote. One more result is worth noting. A single model’s negotiation performance varies little across the six supplier behavior styles it can meet, while the spread between models is four times as large.
Fraud avoidance: this is where the field diverges most. The share of procurement spend that reaches fraudulent suppliers differs more than 160-fold between the extremes, 0.12% for Claude Opus 4.7 against 20.11% for Qwen3.5-Plus. For reference, 152 of the 576 suppliers on the roster are fraudulent, or 26.4%, so a buyer that screens nobody and spreads its procurement budget blindly across every supplier would land right around that 26.4% line. All 18 models come in below it, which means every one of them screens out at least some of the fraudsters. GPT-5.6 Sol, the biggest earner, ranks only 16th here, and its year survived anyway. The real dividing line is not which suppliers a model chooses to talk to. In every model’s outreach, fraudulent suppliers make up roughly the same 26.4%. What differs is whether a conversation turns into an order. Of the fraudulent suppliers Claude Opus 4.7 contacted, only 4.0% ended up receiving an order, against 31.7% for GPT-5.6 Sol.
Figure 8: The share of procurement spend reaching fraudulent suppliers. The red line is the 26.4% no-screening reference, and the right-hand panel shows how that money gets divided among the five scams
Operational efficiency: dividing a year of profit by the tool calls that produced it, Fable5 returns ¥479 per call, above the ¥363 of GPT-5.6 Sol, the leader on total assets, and on 59.9% fewer calls. Shipping, skipping to the next day, withdrawing cash and listing inventory take 71.8% of all calls, while the supplier conversations that can actually change procurement cost take only 6.0%, and price revisions 0.66%. The bulk of the budget goes into actions that leave the cost structure untouched.
Figure 9: Profit per tool call, and how six models spread their calls over eight groups of actions
After a Full Year, Almost No Model Buys Any Cheaper #
Learning over a long horizon is hard to measure, largely because it is hard to say what “progress” ought to look like. This environment happens to come with a ready-made yardstick. A seller kernel never settles below its own reservation price, so the best price an agent has already won is an upper bound on that supplier’s cost floor, and the bound only tightens. For the same supplier and the same product, whether the next purchase settles above or below the best price already won can be judged without any extra annotation.
We express each repeat purchase price as its position inside the bargaining range, then compare it against a null hypothesis that reshuffles the prices the agent already won. That gives AnchorRatio, where 1.0 means the model’s ordering of its own prices is indistinguishable from a random ordering. Across 8,647 repeat purchases, only 2 of the 18 models fall below 1.0, the median is 1.369, and 15 models miss the null by more than two standard deviations in the more expensive direction. Supplier choice drifts the wrong way as well, with fraudulent suppliers taking a larger share of late-year deals than early-year ones for 17 of the models. Over a full year, the models do not get better at buying. Qwen3.8-Max-Preview is the only one of the 18 showing a clear sign of long-horizon learning, at an AnchorRatio of 0.834, which means it does walk repeat purchase prices lower as the year goes on.
One question we went back and forth on while building E-Commerce Bench was whether to let an LLM play the supplier directly. The answer ended up being no. Once the counterparty is also a probabilistic model, the game between agent and supplier becomes two sampling processes stacked on top of each other, the same agent strategy produces entirely different outcomes on two runs, and the evaluation loses its comparability. Our approach freezes every economic decision into a deterministic kernel and leaves only a layer of LLM rendering to put the numbers into human words. The feel of multi-round bargaining is preserved, and the random noise stays outside the score. The idea should carry beyond e-commerce negotiation. Using a pseudo-random deterministic kernel to hold reproducibility looks like a general recipe for long-horizon benchmarks.
The other lesson is that a single metric hides what a model is really like. Not one of the 18 models holds up across all seven axes. Each of the top three carries a weakness that falls outside the top ten, and the model at the bottom is not necessarily the worst on every dimension. Looking only at year-end total assets, you would think GPT-5.6 Sol leads across the board, yet it ranks 16th on fraud avoidance. Failure modes in long-horizon tasks are too scattered, and without pulling them apart there is no way to know where a model is actually weak.
Finally, E-Commerce Bench is far from saturated. On negotiation, fraud avoidance and learning over the horizon alike, the best model on each dimension still sits a clear distance from a perfect score. The best results across the seven dimensions are spread over six different models, frontier models still have substantial room to improve, and the benchmark has plenty of headroom left for measuring business capability.
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency
In this release we are opening the weights of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4. It plays the same role that Qwen3-Next played for Qwen3.5: the hybrid Gated DeltaNet + Gated Attention design introduced at that time has since been used across the Qwen3.5, Qwen3.6, Qwen3.7 and Qwen3.8 series. We are again releasing the architectural changes early, so that the community can examine them before the full Qwen4 model family is built on top of them.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next upgrades the model systematically along four aspects — attention, residual, embedding and optimization — improving model capability while further optimizing computational efficiency, model capacity and training stability:
Attention: A GDN + QSA hybrid architecture. Gated DeltaNet (GDN) compresses the history efficiently; Qwen Sparse Attention (QSA) uses a compressed lightweight indexer to select the important context at micro-block granularity, substantially reducing the cost of attention on long sequences.
Residual: Gated Residual (GR) widens the residual stream into 4 branches and controls reads and writes with a dynamic gate, strengthening cross-layer information flow and training stability.
Embedding: N-gram Embedding looks up a table using the local context to scale model capacity with very little extra computation; the embedding table can be offloaded to host memory and overlapped with model computation through asynchronous prefetching.
Optimization: The Muon optimizer is used, refined around orthogonalization accuracy, the division of labour between Muon and AdamW, and the splitting of fused parameters, with the scaling law refitted for the new architecture.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next features a 125B-parameter main model, supplemented by an additional 51B N-gram embeddings, with 6B parameters activated per token.\nCompared with Qwen3.7-Plus, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next substantially reduces both training and inference cost — training takes only about 1/9 as much, yet it delivers superior capabilities in coding and office tasks.
It natively supports 262,144 tokens of context and is extensible to 1,000,000 tokens with YaRN. For more technical details on the architecture, training methodology, and experimental analysis of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, please refer to the technical report in our GitHub repository.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next weights are now available on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The production version, with 1M context by default and official built-in tools, is served as Qwen3.8-Flash on QwenCloud, priced at 0.15 USD per million input tokens and 0.47 USD per million output tokens.
1. DeepSWE 1.1: evaluated with the Claude Code and mini-SWE-agent harnesses, temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, 256K context window. We report the highest score across the two harnesses; notably, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next performs best on mini-SWE-agent. 2. SWE-bench Pro: except for Claude-Opus-4.6 (Max), for which we report the officially published score, all models are evaluated with the Claude Code harness, temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, 256K context window. Problematic tasks were corrected and all baseline models were re-evaluated on the refined benchmark. 3. SWE-bench Multilingual: evaluated with the mini-SWE-agent harness, temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, 256K context window. 4. NL2Repo-Bench: evaluated with the Claude Code harness. To prevent reward hacking, we disable Bash commands that attempt to access the specific repository, such as pip download, pip install and git clone. 5. CoWorkBench: an in-house cowork benchmark for evaluating long-horizon office and productivity agent tasks across computer science, finance, law, medical and other productivity domains. 6. HLE: judged by GPT-4o. 7. The best result in each row is shown in bold. 8. Empty cells (--): scores are not yet available or are not applicable.
1. ClawEval-MM: scores are reported as \"pass@3 / average score\". Pass@3 measures the percentage passed in at least one of three trials, and the average score is the mean score across the three trials. 2. RecreationBench: an in-house long-horizon application-recreation benchmark for evaluating hybrid-agent abilities spanning five platforms — desktop (Ubuntu, macOS, Windows), mobile (Android) and web. 3. OSWorld 2.0: scores are reported as \"binary / partial\". The binary score is the percentage of tasks that receive the full task reward, while the partial score aggregates the partial rewards obtained across all tasks. 4. Vision2Web: scores are reported as the average over the frontend, webpage and website categories, using the Claude Code harness and judged by gpt-5.4-2026-03-05. 5. MathVision, CharXiv (RQ): scores are reported as \"without CI / with CI\". A small number of incorrect ground-truth annotations in MathVision were corrected after manual verification. Our model's score is evaluated using a fixed prompt, e.g. \"Please reason step by step, and put your final answer within \\boxed{}.\" For other models, we report the higher score between runs with and without the \\boxed{} formatting. 6. The best result in each row is shown in bold. 7. Empty cells (--) indicate scores not yet available or not applicable.
Attention: GDN + QSA for Efficient Memory and Precise Retrieval#
Traditional Full Attention provides direct access to all previous tokens, but as the context grows longer, both computation and KV Cache memory-access costs increase substantially.
Following the architecture design introduced in Qwen3.5, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next adopts a GDN [1] + Attention Hybrid architecture: three out of every four layers use Gated DeltaNet (GDN) to continuously compress historical information into a fixed-size state, while the remaining layer uses global Attention for precise retrieval of information across the full context.
For global Attention, we further introduce Qwen Sparse Attention (QSA). Sparse Attention reduces long-sequence computation by attending only to important context. However, existing approaches such as DSA [2] still rely on a token-level indexer to identify important positions; as the context grows, the indexer itself becomes a non-negligible source of computation.
QSA further compresses this process: a lightweight indexer first aggregates the sequence into micro-blocks, estimates context importance at the block level, and then selects the most relevant regions for Attention. This reduces not only the cost of Attention itself, but also the indexing overhead required to identify important context. Compared with approaches that share indices across layers [3], QSA performs sequence compression independently within each layer, reducing its dependence on cross-layer Attention similarity and making it particularly well suited to Hybrid architectures where GDN and Attention layers are interleaved.
Put simply: GDN efficiently “remembers,” while QSA precisely “retrieves.”
At 1M tokens, QSA’s Attention Kernel achieves up to 7.6× and 4.9× speedups in Prefill and Decode, respectively. In an experimental setup representative of online serving scenarios with high cache reuse (a 90% Prefix Cache hit rate), Qwen3.8-Flash-Next achieves 8.6× the Prefill throughput of Qwen3.7-Plus at a 1M-token context length.
In a traditional Transformer, all layers continuously read from and write to the same Residual Stream. As the network becomes deeper, early features are repeatedly mixed with later information, making important signals more likely to be gradually diluted.
Gated Residual (GR) can be viewed as a combination of two ideas: it follows Hyper-Connection[4] in widening the residual stream into multiple branches, while incorporating the element-wise dynamic gating of GatedNorm[5] into the residual read. The original single residual stream is expanded into four parallel branches, allowing the model to dynamically determine how much information to read from each branch and how much to write back to each branch based on the current content.
This can be conceptualized as expanding a single information channel into multiple parallel pathways: some branches handle local information flow, while others preserve early information directly deep into the network layers. Empirical analysis also reveals that one of these branches naturally emerges as a long-range pathway connecting the first Attention layer to most of the middle and subsequent layers.
GR also further simplifies Hyper-Connection. Once the read and write operations are expressive enough, additional branch mixing yields no significant benefits and can thus be directly removed, thereby reducing memory access overhead and sources of instability. The Gate also effectively suppresses activation outliers and improves training stability. In addition, the Residual State supports FP8 storage, further reducing memory-access overhead.
N-gram Embedding: Expanding Model Capacity at Low Cost#
Inspired by Per-Layer Embedding in Gemma 3n and works such as DeepSeek Engram [6], we further introduce N-gram Embedding to scale model capacity beyond the parameters of the Transformer backbone.
A standard Embedding performs a lookup based on a single token. N-gram Embedding instead performs lookups using the local context formed by the current token and several preceding tokens, providing additional representations for common phrases and local patterns.
Its key advantage is that it can add a large number of parameters with almost no additional computation per token.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next introduces an additional 51B N-gram Embedding parameters. Because lookup locations can be determined in advance, these parameters can be stored in Host Memory and asynchronously prefetched in parallel with model computation, without permanently occupying GPU memory.
The final model uses only a single N-gram Embedding layer near the beginning of the network, effectively adding a large-scale “local-pattern memory” at relatively low additional cost.
Optimization: Co-designing Architecture and Optimization#
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is trained with the Muon Optimizer[7], with further improvements around three key aspects of applying Muon to large-scale model training: orthogonalization accuracy, parameter assignment between Muon and AdamW, and splitting fused parameter matrices.
For parameters that genuinely act as two-dimensional linear maps, such as the main weights in Attention, GDN, and MoE Experts, we use Muon. Embeddings, the MoE Router, and the low-rank parameters in GR continue to use AdamW. For QKV, SwiGLU, and GDN projections that are fused in the implementation, we first split them according to the independent linear transformations they represent, and then perform orthogonalization separately.
For the new architecture and Optimizer, we refit the Scaling Law. The results show that the model can stably use larger Learning Rates and Batch Sizes, further improving convergence efficiency and large-scale parallel training throughput.
We also find that Batch Size Warmup, a common practice in large-scale model training, is no longer necessary: gradually increasing from a small Batch to the target Batch does not improve the final result, but instead requires 18.8% more optimizer steps. In the final training Recipe, we therefore start directly with the target Batch Size.
The remaining components follow the design established in Qwen3-Next and refined through the Qwen3.5–Qwen3.8 series.
Ultra-sparse MoE: With global load balancing [8], increasing total expert parameters while keeping the number of activated experts fixed steadily reduces training loss. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next therefore uses a large expert pool with a small number of routed experts per token, together with one shared expert.
Multi-Token Prediction: The MTP module is trained with multiple steps, maintaining consistency between training and inference and thereby improving the acceptance rate of speculative decoding in real scenarios, while also enhancing the performance of the backbone. Its full-attention layers are replaced with QSA as well.
Training stability: Zero-centered RMSNorm with weight decay applied to norm weights, the attention output gating mechanism [9], and normalized MoE router initialization are retained. These designs make small-scale ablations more reliable and help large-scale training run smoothly.
We compare Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Base with the base models of Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.7-Plus.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Base
Qwen3.8-27B-Base
Qwen3.7-Plus-Base
# Params
125B
27B
397B
# Activated params
6B
27B
17B
# N-gram embedding params
51B
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General tasks
MMLU
90.36
87.51
90.43
MMLU-Redux
90.68
87.26
91.47
MMLU-Pro
73.23
68.60
70.90
SuperGPQA
51.36
44.86
48.42
BBH
90.87
89.56
89.41
Math & STEM tasks
GPQA
51.42
45.01
51.52
GSM8K
93.29
93.18
92.95
MATH
72.78
60.54
74.38
Coding tasks
EvalPlus
78.76
76.05
78.06
MultiPL-E
79.09
74.50
81.68
SWEBench-Pretrain
50.99
41.66
49.24
Multilingual tasks
MGSM
89.33
86.37
85.42
MMMLU
84.86
79.74
84.53
INCLUDE
78.40
74.37
78.90
1. The best result in each row is shown in bold. 2. Empty cells (--): scores are not yet available or not applicable.
With 6B activated parameters, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Base achieves the best result on 8 of the 14 benchmarks, including MMLU-Pro, SuperGPQA, BBH, GSM8K, EvalPlus, SWEBench-Pretrain, MGSM and MMMLU, and remains close to Qwen3.7-Plus-Base on MMLU, MMLU-Redux, GPQA, MATH and MultiPL-E. The 51B N-gram embedding parameters are deterministically addressed and do not enter the per-token matrix-multiplication budget.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is available as an open-weight model on HuggingFace and ModelScope, with official managed APIs on QwenCloud.\nDesigned to balance capability, latency, and cost, it is well suited for high-volume applications, tool-driven workflows, and coding & coworking assistants.\nIn the following, you can explore how to call the QwenCloud API and integrate Qwen3.8-Flash-Next into agentic systems and coding assistants.
On QwenCloud, the model is served under the name qwen3.8-flash.\nQwenCloud supports industry-standard protocols, including OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and Responses APIs, alongside an Anthropic-compatible interface.
"""\nEnvironment variables:\n DASHSCOPE_API_KEY: Your API Key from https://home.qwencloud.com/\n DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL: (optional) Base URL for compatible-mode API.\n - Beijing: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - Singapore: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - US (Virginia): https://dashscope-us.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n"""\nfromopenaiimportOpenAI\nimportos\n\napi_key=os.environ.get("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\nifnotapi_key:\nraiseValueError(\n"DASHSCOPE_API_KEY is required. "\n"Set it via: export DASHSCOPE_API_KEY='your-api-key'"\n)\n\nclient=OpenAI(\napi_key=api_key,\nbase_url=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL",\n"https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",\n),\n)\n\nmessages=[{"role":"user","content":"Write a Python function to merge two sorted linked lists."}]\n\ncompletion=client.chat.completions.create(\nmodel="qwen3.8-flash",\nmessages=messages,\nextra_body={\n"enable_thinking":True,\n# "preserve_thinking": True,\n},\nreasoning_effort="xhigh",# supported levels are xhigh, medium, and low\nstream=True,\n)\n\nreasoning_content=""\nanswer_content=""\nis_answering=False\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Reasoning"+"="*20+"\\n")\n\nforchunkincompletion:\nifnotchunk.choices:\nprint("\\nUsage:")\nprint(chunk.usage)\ncontinue\n\ndelta=chunk.choices[0].delta\n\nifhasattr(delta,"reasoning_content")anddelta.reasoning_contentisnotNone:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint(delta.reasoning_content,end="",flush=True)\nreasoning_content+=delta.reasoning_content\n\nifhasattr(delta,"content")anddelta.content:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Answer"+"="*20+"\\n")\nis_answering=True\nprint(delta.content,end="",flush=True)\nanswer_content+=delta.content\n
QwenWork is Alibaba’s flagship AI productivity platform, designed to help individuals and enterprises automate daily tasks and accelerate operational efficiency.
We are excited to share that QwenWork has integrated Qwen3.8-Flash-Next to power its newly launched “Standard” mode, leveraging the model’s cutting-edge capabilities to deliver a seamless, cost-effective experience that sets a new standard for AI agents in the workplace.
Qwen APIs support the OpenAI Responses protocol, enabling use with Codex:
In ~/.codex/model-catalog.local.json
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next extends the hybrid architecture introduced in Qwen3-Next along four directions: attention, residual, embedding and optimization. QSA compresses the sequence into micro-blocks within each layer, reducing both the attention cost and the indexing cost at long context while keeping precise retrieval. Gated Residual widens the residual stream into several parallel branches and controls reads and writes with an elementwise, data-dependent gate, improving cross-layer information flow and training stability at negligible arithmetic cost; the residual state can additionally be kept in FP8, which further reduces memory traffic. N-gram embedding scales capacity through deterministically addressed lookup memory, which can be scaled with negligible per-token computation and offloaded to host memory. On the optimization side, Muon is used as the main optimizer, with orthogonalization accuracy, parameter assignment and fused-matrix splitting as the decisive implementation choices, and the scaling law refitted for the new architecture.
We release these weights early so that the architecture can be evaluated independently by the community, as we did with Qwen3-Next, and we will continue to refine it towards Qwen4.
@techreport{qwen2026design,\ntitle={On the Design of {Qwen3.8-Next} Architecture: Evaluation, Efficiency, and Training Stability},\nauthor={{Qwen Team}},\ninstitution={Alibaba Group},\nmonth={August},\nyear={2026}\n}\n\n@misc{qwen3.8flashnext,\ntitle={{Qwen3.8-Flash-Next}: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency},\nauthor={{Qwen Team}},\nmonth={August},\nyear={2026},\nurl={https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next}\n}\n
[5] A Unified View of Attention and Residual Sinks: Outlier-Driven Rescaling is Essential for Transformer Training
[6] Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup: A New Axis of Sparsity for Large Language Models
[7] Muon: An Optimizer for Hidden Layers in Neural Networks
[8] Demons in the Detail: On Implementing Load Balancing Loss for Training Specialized Mixture-of-Expert Models
[9] Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free
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We are delighted to announce the official release of Qwen3.5, introducing the open-weight of the first model in the Qwen3.5 series, namely Qwen3.5-397B-A17B. As a native vision-language model, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B demonstrates outstanding results across a full range of benchmark evaluations, including reasoning, coding, agent capabilities, and multimodal understanding, empowering developers and enterprises to achieve significantly greater productivity. Built on an innovative hybrid architecture that fuses linear attention (via Gated Delta Networks) with a sparse mixture-of-experts, the model attains remarkable inference efficiency: although it comprises 397 billion total parameters, just 17 billion are activated per forward pass, optimizing both speed and cost without sacrificing capability. We have also expanded our language and dialect support from 119 to 201, providing broader accessibility and enhanced support to users around the world.
Below we present the comprehensive evaluation of our models against frontier models in a wide range of evaluation tasks, covering different tasks and modalities.
* HLE-Verified: a verified and revised version of Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE), accompanied by a transparent, component-wise verification protocol and a fine-grained error taxonomy. We open-source the dataset at https://huggingface.co/datasets/skylenage/HLE-Verified. * TAU2-Bench: we follow the official setup except for the airline domain, where all models are evaluated by applying the fixes proposed in the Claude Opus 4.5 system card. * MCP-Mark: GitHub MCP server uses v0.30.3 from api.githubcopilot.com; Playwright tool responses are truncated at 32k tokens. * Search Agent: most search agents built on our model adopt a simple context-folding strategy(256k): once the cumulative Tool Response length reaches a preset threshold, earlier Tool Responses are pruned from the history to keep the context within limits. * BrowseComp: we tested two strategies, simple context-folding achieved a score of 69.0, while using the same discard-all strategy as DeepSeek-V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 achieved 78.6. * WideSearch: we use a 256k context window without any context management. * MMLU-ProX: we report the averaged accuracy on 29 languages. * WMT24++: a harder subset of WMT24 after difficulty labeling and rebalancing; we report the averaged scores on 55 languages using XCOMET-XXL. * MAXIFE: we report the accuracy on English + multilingual original prompts (totally 23 settings). * Empty cells (--) indicate scores not yet available or not applicable.
* MathVision：our model’s score is evaluated using a fixed prompt, e.g., “Please reason step by step, and put your final answer within \\boxed{}.” For other models, we report the higher score between runs with and without the \\boxed{} formatting. * BabyVision: our model’s score is reported with CI (Code Interpreter) enabled; without CI, the result is 43.3. * V*: our model’s score is reported with CI (Code Interpreter) enabled; without CI, the result is 91.1. * Empty cells (--) indicate scores not yet available or not applicable. * Upon review, we found inconsistencies in the evaluation setup of the historical version Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B on SLAKE and PMC-VQA. The corresponding comparative scores were corrected on March 15, 2026.
Compared to the Qwen3 series, the post-training performance gains in Qwen3.5 primarily stem from our extensive scaling of virtually all RL tasks and environments we could conceive. Our approach placed strong emphasis on increasing the difficulty and generalizability of RL environments, rather than optimizing for specific metrics or narrow categories of queries. Below, we illustrate the improvements in general agent capabilities resulting from this RL environment scaling. The overall performance is calculated by averaging the ranking of each model on the following benchmarks: BFCL-V4, VITA-Bench, DeepPlanning, Tool-Decathlon, and MCP-Mark. Additional scaling results across a broader range of tasks will be detailed in our upcoming technical report.
Qwen3.5 advances pretraining across three dimensions—power, efficiency, and versatility:
Power: Trained on a significantly larger scale of visual-text tokens compared to Qwen3, with enriched Chinese/English, multilingual, STEM, and reasoning data under stricter filtering. This enables cross-generation parity: Qwen3.5-397B-A17B matches the >1T-parameter Qwen3-Max-Base.
Efficiency: Built on Qwen3-Next architecture—higher-sparsity MoE, Gated DeltaNet + Gated Attention hybrid attention, stability optimizations, and multi-token prediction. Under the 32k/256k context length, the decoding throughput of Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is 8.6x/19.0x that of Qwen3-Max, and the performance is comparable. The decoding throughput of Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is 3.5x/7.2 times that of Qwen3-235B-A22B.
Versatility: Natively multimodal via early text-vision fusion and expanded visual/STEM/video data, outperforming Qwen3-VL at similar scales. Multilingual coverage grows from 119 to 201 languages/dialects; a 250k vocabulary (vs. 150k) boosts encoding/decoding efficiency by 10–60% across most languages.
Below we present the performance of the base models.
Qwen3.5 enables efficient native multimodal training via a heterogeneous infrastructure that decouples parallelism strategies across vision and language components, avoiding uniform approaches’ inefficiencies. By exploiting sparse activations for cross-component computation overlap, it achieves near 100% training throughput versus pure-text baselines on mixed text-image-video data. Complementing this, a native FP8 pipeline applies low precision to activations, MoE routing, and GEMM operations—with runtime monitoring preserving BF16 in sensitive layers—yielding ~50% activation memory reduction and >10% speedup while scaling stably to tens of trillions of tokens.
To continuously unleash the power of reinforcement learning, we built a scalable asynchronous RL framework that supports Qwen3.5 models of all sizes, spanning text, multimodal, and multi-turn settings. By adopting a fully disaggregated training-inference architecture, the framework achieves significantly improved hardware utilization, dynamic load balancing, and fine-grained fault recovery. It further optimizes throughput and enhances train–infer consistency via techniques such as FP8 end-to-end training, rollout router replay, speculative decoding, and multi-turn rollout locking. Through tight system-algorithm co-design, the framework effectively bounds gradient staleness and mitigates data skewness, preserving both training stability and performance. Moreover, it natively supports agentic workflows, facilitating seamless multi-turn interactions without framework-induced interruptions. This decoupled design enables the system to accommodate million-scale agent scaffolds and environments, substantially boosting model generalization. Collectively, these optimizations yield a 3×–5× end-to-end speedup, demonstrating superior stability, efficiency, and scalability.
Feel free to use Qwen3.5 on Qwen Chat. We provide three modes, auto, thinking, and fast, to users to choose. With “Auto” mode, users can leverage adaptive thinking, which can think and use tools including search and code interpreter, while with “Thinking” mode, the model can think deeply for hard problems. With “Fast” mode, the model answers questions instantly without spending tokens on thinking.
Users can experience our flagship model, Qwen3.5-Plus, by invoking it through Alibaba Cloud ModelStudio. To enable advanced capabilities such as reasoning, web search, and Code Interpreter, simply pass the following parameters:
enable_search: Enables web search and Code Interpreter functionality
Example code is provided below:
"""\nEnvironment variables (per official docs):\n DASHSCOPE_API_KEY: Your API Key from https://bailian.console.aliyun.com\n DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL: (optional) Base URL for compatible-mode API.\n DASHSCOPE_MODEL: (optional) Model name; override for different models.\n DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL:\n - Beijing: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - Singapore: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - US (Virginia): https://dashscope-us.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n"""\nfromopenaiimportOpenAI\nimportos\n\napi_key=os.environ.get("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\nifnotapi_key:\nraiseValueError(\n"DASHSCOPE_API_KEY is required. "\n"Set it via: export DASHSCOPE_API_KEY='your-api-key'"\n)\n\nclient=OpenAI(\napi_key=api_key,\nbase_url=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL",\n"https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",\n),\n)\n\nmessages=[{"role":"user","content":"Introduce Qwen3.5."}]\n\nmodel=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_MODEL",\n"qwen3.5-plus",\n)\ncompletion=client.chat.completions.create(\nmodel=model,\nmessages=messages,\nextra_body={\n"enable_thinking":True,\n"enable_search":False\n},\nstream=True\n)\n\nreasoning_content=""# Full reasoning trace\nanswer_content=""# Full response\nis_answering=False# Whether we have entered the answer phase\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Reasoning"+"="*20+"\\n")\n\nforchunkincompletion:\nifnotchunk.choices:\nprint("\\nUsage:")\nprint(chunk.usage)\ncontinue\n\ndelta=chunk.choices[0].delta\n\n# Collect reasoning content only\nifhasattr(delta,"reasoning_content")anddelta.reasoning_contentisnotNone:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint(delta.reasoning_content,end="",flush=True)\nreasoning_content+=delta.reasoning_content\n\n# Received content, start answer phase\nifhasattr(delta,"content")anddelta.content:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Answer"+"="*20+"\\n")\nis_answering=True\nprint(delta.content,end="",flush=True)\nanswer_content+=delta.content\n
You can effortlessly integrate the Bailian API with third-party coding tools, such as Qwen Code, Claude Code, Cline, OpenClaw, OpenCode, etc., to enable a seamless “vibe coding” experience.
Qwen3.5 provides a strong foundation for universal digital agents through its efficient hybrid architecture and native multimodal reasoning. The next leap requires shifting from model scaling to system integration: building agents with persistent memory for cross-session learning, embodied interfaces for real-world interaction, self-directed improvement mechanisms, and economic awareness to operate within practical constraints. The goal is coherent systems that function autonomously over time, transforming today’s task-bound assistants into persistent, trustworthy partners capable of executing complex, multi-day objectives with human-aligned judgment.
Qwen3.5 can help with web development, especially for frontend tasks like building web pages and designing user interfaces. It makes creating websites easier by turning simple instructions into working code.
Qwen3.5 can be used with OpenClaw to power coding tasks. By integrating with OpenClaw as a third-party agent environment, Qwen3.5 can carry out web search, gather information, and produce structured reports—combining its reasoning and tool use with OpenClaw’s interface for a smooth coding and research experience.
With Qwen3.5 as the underlying model, Qwen Code supports “vibe coding”, turning natural-language instructions into code, iterating on projects in real time, and handling creative tasks such as generating videos or other assets. Together, Qwen Code and Qwen3.5 provide a streamlined experience for both everyday programming and exploratory coding.
Acting as a visual agent for productivity automation, Qwen3.5 enables autonomous interaction with smartphones and computers. As a mobile agent, it can follow natural-language instructions to take actions within mobile apps and enable smooth interaction across multiple apps. As a computer agent, it handles complex, long-horizon desktop workflows, enabling office automation.
The ‘/Users/username/Downloads’ folder contains mixed files. Please organize them into subfolders: create ‘PDFs’ folder and move all .pdf files there, create ‘Images’ folder and move all .jpg/.png/.gif files there, create ‘Documents’ folder and move all .docx/.xlsx/.pptx files there, create ‘Archives’ folder and move all .zip/.tar/.gz files there. Files with other extensions should remain in Downloads root.
With its input length expanded to one million tokens, Qwen3.5 can process up to two hours of video. This unlocks a range of powerful applications, from turning hand-drawn UI sketches into clean frontend code, to reverse-engineering logic from simple gameplay footage, to condensing long videos into structured web pages and visual summaries.
Create a homepage of OpenQwen, a virtual assistant personal agent that can help with coding, office works, shopping and so on. Generate high-quality images as the website’s resources, including an avatar and demos of its use cases.
By modeling pixel-level spatial relationships in images, Qwen3.5 achieves higher accuracy in tasks like object counting, relative positioning, and spatial description. It effectively mitigates errors caused by perspective shifts or occlusions—showcasing strong potential for embodied AI applications such as autonomous driving scene understanding and robotic navigation.
What you are seeing are frames from a video sequence. Your answer should focus on the final dynamic outcome, rather than analyzing the results of each individual frame.\nWhy didn’t you stop at this intersection?
Qwen3.5
<think>
The user wants to know why the vehicle didn’t stop at the intersection based on the provided video frames.
Analyze the sequence of events:
Frames 1-3: The vehicle is approaching an intersection. The traffic lights ahead are visible. In Frame 1 and 2, the lights are green. In Frame 3, the lights are still green.
Frame 4: The vehicle is closer to the stop line (marked with a bicycle symbol). The traffic lights have turned amber (yellow). The vehicle is already very close to the intersection.
Frame 5: The vehicle has crossed the stop line and is entering the intersection. The traffic lights are amber. The vehicle is proceeding through.
Determine the traffic rule: In the UK (driving on the left, red double-decker bus), an amber light means “Stop at the stop line.” However, there is a crucial exception: “You may go on only if the AMBER appears after you have crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to pull up might cause an accident.”
Apply the rule to the visual evidence:
In Frame 3, the light is green, and the car is approaching.
In Frame 4, the light turns amber. At this exact moment, the car is extremely close to the white stop line (the box with the bicycle symbol).
Stopping abruptly from that distance and speed would likely be dangerous or cause a rear-end collision (hard braking). The car is already committed to the intersection.
Therefore, the driver continued through because they were too close to stop safely when the light changed from green to amber.
Formulate the answer:
Start by identifying the state of the traffic lights. They were green as the car approached.
Note the change. As the car got very close to the intersection (specifically the advanced stop line for cyclists), the lights turned amber.
Explain the reasoning. Because the vehicle was already so close to the stop line when the light changed, stopping safely would have been difficult or dangerous. It’s the standard “point of no return” scenario. The driver proceeded through the amber light legally and safely because they were too close to stop.
Refine the answer: Ensure it directly answers “Why didn’t you stop?”
“I didn’t stop because the traffic lights turned amber just as I was approaching the stop line.”
“I was too close to the intersection to stop safely.”
“The lights were green initially, allowing me to approach.”
Let’s combine these points. The primary reason is proximity to the stop line when the signal changed.
Self-Correction/Check: Did I miss anything?
Frame 1: Green light.
Frame 2: Green light.
Frame 3: Green light.
Frame 4: Amber light. The car is right at the bicycle box.
Frame 5: Amber light. The car is past the box.
Conclusion stands: The light changed to amber when the vehicle was too close to stop safely.
</think>
I did not stop because the traffic lights turned amber just as I was approaching the stop line.
Looking at the sequence:
In the earlier frames, the traffic lights are clearly green, so I continued driving towards the intersection.
By the fourth frame, as I reached the advanced stop line (the box with the bicycle symbol), the lights changed to amber.
At that specific moment, I was too close to the intersection to stop safely without slamming on the brakes, so I proceeded through the junction while the light was amber.
Is the telephone booth on the left or right side of the yellow van?\n
Qwen3.5
<think>
The user wants to know the relative position of the telephone booth compared to the yellow van.
Locate the yellow van: I need to scan the street in the lower middle part of the image. I see a line of parked cars and moving vehicles. There is a distinct yellow van [403, 776, 423, 804] parked on the right side of the road (from the viewer’s perspective, it’s driving away or parked facing away, but actually, looking closely, it’s facing towards the camera, wait no, let’s re-evaluate). Let’s look at the traffic flow. The cars on the left are facing towards the camera (headlights visible? hard to tell, but they are parked). The cars on the right seem to be parked or moving. Wait, let’s look at the yellow vehicle. It’s a yellow van [403, 776, 423, 804].
Locate the telephone booth: I need to find a red telephone booth. Scanning near the yellow van. Just to the right of the yellow van, further down the sidewalk/street area, there is a red object. Let’s zoom in mentally. Ah, there is a red telephone booth [449, 796, 461, 831] standing on the sidewalk.
Determine relative position:
The yellow van is at roughly x=403 to x=423.
The telephone booth is at roughly x=449 to x=461.
Since the x-coordinate of the telephone booth is greater than the x-coordinate of the yellow van, the telephone booth is to the right of the yellow van from the viewer’s perspective.
Let me double-check.
Yellow van: [403, 776, 423, 804]
Telephone booth: [449, 796, 461, 831]
The booth is clearly to the right of the van in the image frame.
Wait, is that definitely a telephone booth? Yes, it’s a classic red British phone box.\nIs that definitely a yellow van? Yes, it looks like a small yellow delivery van or similar vehicle.
So, the telephone booth is on the right side of the yellow van.
</think>
The telephone booth is on the right side of the yellow van.
The user is asking for the color of an “electric rickshaw”.
Scan the image for vehicles: I see cars, buses, and maybe a motorcycle or scooter.
Locate potential candidates:
Bottom left corner: There’s a small vehicle. It looks like a three-wheeled vehicle, possibly a tuk-tuk or electric rickshaw.
Road: Several cars (black, orange taxi), buses (blue/white).
Analyze the candidate in the bottom left:
It’s located near the bottom left edge, on the side road/bike lane area.
It has a yellow canopy/top.
The body seems to be yellow as well.
Wait, let me look closer. It’s a small vehicle with a driver. It looks like a yellow three-wheeled vehicle, often used for deliveries or short transport. In China, these are common. It looks like a yellow electric tricycle/rickshaw.
Let’s check if there are other candidates.
There’s a taxi (orange/yellow top) on the main road. That’s a car, not a rickshaw.
The vehicle at the very bottom left [149, 912, 178, 933] is yellow. It looks like a small motorized tricycle or rickshaw.
Determine the color: The vehicle is predominantly yellow.
Let me double-check the term “electric rickshaw”. In an urban Chinese context (which this is, clearly Shanghai), these small three-wheeled vehicles are often electric. The one at the bottom left fits the description perfectly. It is yellow.
Wait, is there another one?
Near the bus stop? No.
Further back? No.
So the object is the small yellow vehicle in the bottom left corner.
Let’s refine the bounding box if needed, but the question just asks for the color.\nThe color is yellow.
Let me re-examine the vehicle at [149, 912, 178, 933].\nIt looks like a person riding a small yellow vehicle. It could be a delivery scooter with a yellow box, or a small yellow three-wheeler. Given the prompt “electric rickshaw”, this is the most likely candidate. It is yellow.
Let’s look for other possibilities.
Is the orange taxi [362, 909, 417, 934] being mistaken for a rickshaw? Unlikely, it’s clearly a car.
The user wants me to count the cars on the right-hand side of the image.
Identify the right side: Looking at the image, there’s a street with cars parked on both sides. The right side is the right half of the image.
Scan for cars: I’ll start from the foreground (closest to the camera) and move backwards.
Car 1: In the immediate foreground on the right, there’s a dark-colored car, possibly an SUV or crossover. It’s partially cut off by the right edge. Wait, looking closer, it’s the rear/side of a car. Let’s call this Car 1. [843, 453, 999, 856]
Car 2: Just behind Car 1, there’s another car. It looks like a sedan, possibly silver or grey. [755, 497, 874, 666]
Car 3: Further back, there’s another car parked. It’s darker and further away. [693, 477, 755, 584]
Are there more? Looking further back into the distance on the right side, it’s hard to distinguish individual cars clearly due to darkness and distance, but those three are distinct. Wait, let me re-evaluate the car closest to the camera.
The car closest to the camera on the right [843, 453, 999, 856] is clearly visible.
Behind it is another car [755, 497, 874, 666].
Behind that one is a third car [693, 477, 755, 584].
Is there anything else? It looks like just those three clearly parked in a row.
Let me recount to be sure.
Right foreground: A dark SUV/crossover type vehicle.
Behind it: A sedan (looks like a silver/grey sedan).
Behind that: Another car further down the street.
So, that makes 3 cars clearly visible on the right side.
Let me double check the left side just to be sure I’m not mixing them up.
Left foreground: White car [0, 479, 73, 701]
Behind it: White sedan [59, 490, 199, 663]
Behind it: Orange/Red Mini Cooper [187, 493, 293, 626]
Behind it: Dark car [283, 483, 362, 591]
Behind it: Another car further back [345, 475, 427, 567]
Okay, so the question is specifically about the right hand side.
Car 1 (closest): [843, 453, 999, 856]
Car 2 (middle): [755, 497, 874, 666]
Car 3 (furthest): [693, 477, 755, 584]
Wait, looking very closely at the group on the right.
The car closest to the camera [843, 453, 999, 856] is definitely a car.
The car behind it [755, 497, 874, 666] is definitely a car.
The car further back [693, 477, 755, 584] is definitely a car.
So the count is 3.
Let me re-examine the bounding boxes provided in my thought process to ensure accuracy.
Box 1: Far right, closest. Looks like the rear of a dark SUV.
Box 2: Just behind/next to it. Looks like a sedan.
Box 3: Further back. Looks like another sedan or hatchback.
Is there a car way back? Near the intersection? It’s hard to tell, but there might be headlights or taillights further down, but distinct parked cars seem to be just these three. Wait, let me look at the car at [693, 477, 755, 584]. That looks like a car facing away. Yes.
So, 3 cars.
Let me look again.
Rightmost car: Dark SUV [843, 453, 999, 856]
Next car back: Silver/Grey car [755, 497, 874, 666]
Next car back: Dark car [693, 477, 755, 584]
Is there anything else? No, that seems to be it.
Wait, let me look at the car at [693, 477, 755, 584] again. Is that actually a car? Yes, I can see taillights and the rear window.\nIs there a car behind that one? It’s very dark. I don’t see another distinct shape.
So the answer is 3.
Let me re-read the prompt. “How many cars are on the right hand side?”\nOkay, simple count.
Let’s look really closely at the car closest to the camera on the right. It’s actually cut off.\nThen the next one.\nThen the one further back.
Is it possible that the car at [755, 497, 874, 666] and [843, 453, 999, 856] are the same car? No, looking at the wheels and position, they are distinct. The closest car [843, 453, 999, 856] has its rear wheel visible. The car behind it [755, 497, 874, 666] has its rear wheel visible further back. Wait, no.\nLet’s trace the wheels.
Closest car (right edge): Rear wheel visible at bottom right. Front wheel visible further up. Wait, is it facing towards or away? It looks like the rear is facing us. No, wait.
Let’s look at the lights. The red lights are taillights. So the cars on the right are facing away from the camera (parked on the right side of a two-way street, or one-way street).
Actually, looking at the car at [843, 453, 999, 856], I see a wheel at the back (bottom right) and a wheel further up. This suggests the side of the car is visible. It looks like the rear right quarter.
The car at [755, 497, 874, 666] is in front of it (further away). I see its rear left side.
The car at [693, 477, 755, 584] is further away still.
Actually, let’s look at the orientation.
Left side cars: Facing the camera (headlights visible on the white car, orange car). So traffic flows towards the camera on the left? Or they are parked facing the camera.
Right side cars: Facing away from the camera (taillights visible). This is consistent with a two-way street where you drive on the right. Cars on the right park facing forward (away). Cars on the left park facing forward (towards). Wait.
If I’m driving down the street, cars on my right are parked facing the same direction as me (away). Cars on my left (oncoming lane) would be parked facing me.
Let’s check the left cars again.
White car [0, 479, 73, 701]: Facing right/forward? No, looks like the front left. Headlight visible. Facing camera.
White car [59, 490, 199, 663]: Front visible. Facing camera.
Orange car [187, 493, 293, 626]: Front visible. Facing camera.
So cars on the left are facing the camera.
Cars on the right should be facing away.
Car [843, 453, 999, 856]: Rear visible? Or side? It looks like the rear right side. Taillight area is dark but shape suggests rear.
Car [755, 497, 874, 666]: Rear visible. Taillights.
Car [693, 477, 755, 584]: Rear visible.
Okay, so there are 3 distinct cars parked on the right side.
Let me count again carefully.
Closest car on right: Dark SUV/Crossover. [843, 453, 999, 856]
Middle car on right: Sedan. [755, 497, 874, 666]
Furthest car on right: Sedan/Hatchback. [693, 477, 755, 584]
Are there any more further back? Near the intersection?\nThere’s a light source further back, but no clear car shape.\nSo, 3 cars.
Wait, is the car at [693, 477, 755, 584] actually parked? It looks like it’s in the lane, maybe moving? Or parked further down. It’s positioned similarly to the others. Let’s assume it’s a car.\nIs there a car between the closest one and the middle one?\nLooking at the gap between [843, 453, 999, 856] and [755, 497, 874, 666].\nThe closest car [843, 453, 999, 856] takes up the bottom right corner.\nThe next car [755, 497, 874, 666] is just ahead of it.\nThe third car [693, 477, 755, 584] is ahead of that one.
So, count = 3.
Let me just confirm the bounding boxes again.
Car 1 (furthest right/back): [693, 477, 755, 584] - This is the furthest one clearly visible.
Car 2 (middle right): [755, 497, 874, 666] - This is the one in the middle of the right row.
Car 3 (closest right): [843, 453, 999, 856] - This is the big one in the foreground right.
Wait, looking at the image again, the car at [843, 453, 999, 856] is very close.\nThe car at [755, 497, 874, 666] is behind it.\nThe car at [693, 477, 755, 584] is behind that one.
So yes, 3 cars.
Let me check if there’s a car way in the back, past the intersection.\nThere are lights, but no distinct car shape.\nSo I will stick with 3.
Final check.\nLeft side:
White car (partial)
White car
Orange Mini
Dark car
Dark car (further back)\nTotal 5 on left.
Right side:
Dark car (furthest back visible)
Silver/Grey car
Dark SUV (closest)\nTotal 3 on right.
The question asks “How many cars are on the right hand side?”.\nAnswer: 3.
Wait, let me look really closely at the car at [693, 477, 755, 584]. Is it actually a car?\nYes, I see the rear window, the trunk, and the taillight area. It looks like a sedan.\nIs there another car in front of it?\nThere’s a faint shape further up the road, near the green light. It’s too indistinct to count.\nSo 3 is the most reasonable answer.
Let me re-verify the “right hand side”.\nFrom the perspective of the camera/viewer.\nYes, the right side of the image.
So, 3 cars.
</think>
Based on the image, there appear to be 3 cars parked on the right-hand side of the street.
One car is in the immediate foreground on the right (a dark SUV/crossover).
One car is parked just ahead of it (a silver/grey sedan).
One car is parked further ahead near the intersection (a darker sedan).
Question: How many door hinges are located in this image?\nOptions:\nA. There are 3 door hinges in this image.\nB. There are 12 door hinges in this image.\nC. There are 6 door hinges in this image.\nPlease select the correct answer from the options above.\n
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<think>
The user wants me to count the door hinges in the image.
Analyze the image: I see two sets of double doors.
Left set: Two doors.
Right set: Two doors.
Examine the left set of doors:
Left door of the left set:
Top hinge: [39, 326, 47, 350]
Middle hinge: [53, 466, 60, 490]
Bottom hinge: [66, 597, 74, 621]
Right door of the left set:
Top hinge: [355, 308, 362, 335]
Middle hinge: [364, 476, 370, 501]
Bottom hinge: [369, 631, 375, 655]
Examine the right set of doors:
Left door of the right set:
Top hinge: [420, 302, 428, 332]
Middle hinge: [427, 476, 434, 502]
Bottom hinge: [431, 638, 438, 663]
Right door of the right set:
Top hinge: [930, 269, 940, 306]
Middle hinge: [917, 489, 925, 523]
Bottom hinge: [905, 691, 913, 725]
Count the hinges:
Left set, left door: 3 hinges.
Left set, right door: 3 hinges.
Right set, left door: 3 hinges.
Right set, right door: 3 hinges.
Total: 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 12.
Check options:
A. 3
B. 12
C. 6
Conclusion: The correct answer is 12.
</think>
The correct answer is B. There are 12 door hinges in this image.
Question: Is the car that is currently traversing through the intersection moving towards the left or towards the right?\nOptions:\nA. Left\nB. Right\nPlease select the correct answer from the options above.\n
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<think>
The user is asking about the direction of a car traversing the intersection.
Identify the car: Looking at the intersection, there is a silver/grey SUV (looks like a Jeep Wrangler) on the left side of the image [0, 469, 137, 597]. It is positioned perpendicular to the camera’s view, facing towards the right side of the frame.
Determine its motion: The car is positioned as if it is entering or crossing the intersection from the left side. Its front is pointing towards the right. Therefore, it is moving towards the right.
Check other cars: There are parked cars on both sides. There’s a white car [313, 473, 372, 545] and a black car [203, 488, 266, 560] facing the camera, waiting or parked. There’s an orange car [493, 476, 558, 545] parked facing away. The only car “traversing” or actively in the process of crossing (or positioned to cross) is the silver Jeep on the left.
Confirm direction: The Jeep is facing right. So it is moving towards the right.
Wait, let me re-evaluate. Is the Jeep moving? It’s in the middle of the intersection entrance. It’s facing right. So if it’s moving, it’s moving right.\nLet’s look for other moving cars. Further up the hill, cars are parked.\nThe question asks about “the car that is currently traversing through the intersection”.\nThe silver Jeep [0, 469, 137, 597] is the only candidate. It is facing right. Therefore, it is moving towards the right.
Let’s double check.
Car at [0, 469, 137, 597]: Silver Jeep. Facing right.
Car at [203, 488, 266, 560]: Black car. Facing camera (stopped/parked).
Car at [269, 479, 310, 537]: Silver car. Facing camera (stopped/parked).
Car at [313, 473, 372, 545]: White car. Facing camera (stopped/parked).
Car at [493, 476, 558, 545]: Orange car. Facing away (parked).
So the only car that could be described as “traversing” is the Jeep on the left. It is facing and moving towards the right side of the image.
Question: Where is the face that has it’s eyes open compared to the other figures?\nOptions:\nA. It’s in the middle of the 6 other figures.\nB. It’s on the left side of the 6 other figures.\nC. It’s in the right side of the 6 other figures.\nPlease select the correct answer from the options above.\n
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<think>
The user wants me to identify the location of a specific figure in the image.
Analyze the image: I see a collection of 7 small, sculpted heads mounted on a white board inside a glass case.
Identify the figures: They all look like pale, child-like faces wearing red hoods with ears (like Little Red Riding Hood or a fox).
Check the eyes:
Top left: Eyes closed [283, 146, 427, 263].
Top right: Eyes closed [555, 130, 725, 260].
Middle left: Eyes closed [161, 351, 294, 458].
Middle center: Eyes open [394, 351, 538, 456]. Wait, let me look closer. Yes, the middle figure has distinct black pupils visible.
Middle right: Eyes closed [661, 346, 836, 477].
Bottom left: Eyes closed [283, 537, 422, 652].
Bottom right: Eyes closed [542, 560, 705, 686].
Determine the position: The figure with open eyes is located in the center of the arrangement. It is surrounded by the other six figures (two above, two below, one to the left, one to the right).
Evaluate the options:
A. It’s in the middle of the 6 other figures. -> This matches my observation. It is centrally located.
B. It’s on the left side of the 6 other figures. -> Incorrect.
C. It’s in the right side of the 6 other figures. -> Incorrect.
Formulate the final answer: The correct option is A.
Qwen3.5 can use tools such as a code interpreter and image search during multimodal reasoning. This means it can not only interpret images, but also leverage external tools during its reasoning — transforming images, rendering intermediate reasoning steps, and using visuals to verify its textual results.
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\nimportcollections\n\n# Load the image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\n\n# The maze seems to be a grid. Let's try to determine the grid size.\n# The image has a thick black border.\n# Let's convert to HSV to detect red and green colors for start and end points.\nhsv=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2HSV)\n\n# Define range of red colors\nlower_red=np.array([0,70,50])\nupper_red=np.array([10,255,255])\n# Threshold the HSV image to get red components\nmask1=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_red,upper_red)\n# Sometimes red wraps around 180, so check upper end too\nlower_red2=np.array([160,70,50])\nupper_red2=np.array([180,255,255])\nmask2=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_red2,upper_red2)\nmask_red=cv2.bitwise_or(mask1,mask2)\n\n# Define range of green colors\nlower_green=np.array([40,70,50])\nupper_green=np.array([80,255,255])\nmask_green=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_green,upper_green)\n\n# Find coordinates of red and green pixels\nred_pixels=np.column_stack(np.where(mask_red>0))\ngreen_pixels=np.column_stack(np.where(mask_green>0))\n\nprint(f"Red pixels count: {len(red_pixels)}")\nprint(f"Green pixels count: {len(green_pixels)}")\n\n# Let's estimate grid size.\n# The image looks like a square maze. Let's assume a standard size like 15x15 or similar.\nh,w=image.shape[:2]\nprint(f"Image dimensions: {w}x{h}")\n\n# Let's try to detect the grid lines or infer from the structure.\n# The walls are black, paths are white.\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n# Threshold to separate black walls from white paths\n_,binary=cv2.threshold(gray,128,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY)\n\n# Let's try to infer grid size by looking at runs of pixels.\n# Or simply assume a size based on visual inspection.\n# Let's count transitions or look at the structure.\n# Let's try to resize the image to various grid sizes and see which one makes sense.\n# Common sizes are 10x10, 15x15, 20x20, etc.\n# Let's try to detect the bounding box of the maze content first.\ncoords=cv2.findNonZero(255-binary)# Find black pixels (walls)\nx,y,w_maze,h_maze=cv2.boundingRect(coords)\nprint(f"Maze bounding box: x={x}, y={y}, w={w_maze}, h={h_maze}")\n\n# It seems the maze fills most of the image.\n# Let's try to determine grid size by checking common divisors or visual estimation.\n# Let's assume the maze is roughly square.\n# Let's try to print out potential grid sizes.\n# If I look at the image, it seems to be around 17x17 or similar.\n# Let's try to detect lines.\n\n# Let's try a simpler approach: assume the maze is a grid of N x N cells.\n# Let's try to find N such that the cell size is consistent.\n# Let's try N from 10 to 30.\n# The bounding box is likely the whole image or close to it.\n# Let's assume the black border is part of the maze walls.\n\n# Let's try to infer grid size by looking at the image dimensions.\n# 512x512 is common, or similar. Let's check w, h again.\n# Let's try to divide w and h by integers to see if we get a reasonable cell size.\n# Let's guess the grid size is roughly 17x17 based on visual complexity.\n# Let's try to detect the grid by looking at the binary image.\n\n# Let's try to simply assume a grid size and see if it reconstructs well.\n# Let's try to count the number of black/white transitions in the middle row/col.\n\n# Let's try to detect the grid size by checking the run lengths in the binary image.\ndefestimate_grid_size(binary_img):\n# Scan middle row and column\nmid_row=binary_img[h//2,:]\nmid_col=binary_img[:,w//2]\n \n# This might be noisy. Let's try to just guess based on image size.\n# Let's print image size first.\nreturn\n\nprint(f"Image shape: {image.shape}")\n\n# Let's try to visualize the masks to confirm start and end points.\nplt.figure(figsize=(15,5))\n\nplt.subplot(1,3,1)\nplt.imshow(image)\nplt.title(f"Original Image ({w}x{h})")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,3,2)\nplt.imshow(mask_red,cmap='gray')\nplt.title(f"Red Mask (Start): {len(red_pixels)} pixels")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,3,3)\nplt.imshow(mask_green,cmap='gray')\nplt.title(f"Green Mask (End): {len(green_pixels)} pixels")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n\n# Calculate centroids for start and end\niflen(red_pixels)>0:\nstart_y,start_x=np.mean(red_pixels,axis=0).astype(int)\nprint(f"Start point (pixel): ({start_x}, {start_y})")\nelse:\nstart_x,start_y=-1,-1\n\niflen(green_pixels)>0:\nend_y,end_x=np.mean(green_pixels,axis=0).astype(int)\nprint(f"End point (pixel): ({end_x}, {end_y})")\nelse:\nend_x,end_y=-1,-1\n
User
Red pixels count: 279\nGreen pixels count: 238\nImage dimensions: 612x606\nMaze bounding box: x=15, y=15, w=587, h=586\nImage shape: (606, 612, 3)\n\nStart point (pixel): (61, 60)\nEnd point (pixel): (555, 554)
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\nimportcollections\n\n# Load the image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\n\n# The maze seems to be a grid. Let's try to determine the grid size.\n# The image has a thick black border.\n# Let's convert to HSV to detect red and green colors for start and end points.\nhsv=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2HSV)\n\n# Define range of red colors\nlower_red=np.array([0,70,50])\nupper_red=np.array([10,255,255])\n# Threshold the HSV image to get red components\nmask1=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_red,upper_red)\n# Sometimes red wraps around 180, so check upper end too\nlower_red2=np.array([160,70,50])\nupper_red2=np.array([180,255,255])\nmask2=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_red2,upper_red2)\nmask_red=cv2.bitwise_or(mask1,mask2)\n\n# Define range of green colors\nlower_green=np.array([40,70,50])\nupper_green=np.array([80,255,255])\nmask_green=cv2.inRange(hsv,lower_green,upper_green)\n\n# Find coordinates of red and green pixels\nred_pixels=np.column_stack(np.where(mask_red>0))\ngreen_pixels=np.column_stack(np.where(mask_green>0))\n\nprint(f"Red pixels count: {len(red_pixels)}")\nprint(f"Green pixels count: {len(green_pixels)}")\n\n# Let's estimate grid size.\n# The image looks like a square maze. Let's assume a standard size like 15x15 or similar.\nh,w=image.shape[:2]\nprint(f"Image dimensions: {w}x{h}")\n\n# Let's try to detect the grid lines or infer from the structure.\n# The walls are black, paths are white.\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n# Threshold to separate black walls from white paths\n_,binary=cv2.threshold(gray,128,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY)\n\n# Let's try to infer grid size by looking at runs of pixels.\n# Or simply assume a size based on visual inspection.\n# Let's count transitions or look at the structure.\n# Let's try to resize the image to various grid sizes and see which one makes sense.\n# Common sizes are 10x10, 15x15, 20x20, etc.\n# Let's try to detect the bounding box of the maze content first.\ncoords=cv2.findNonZero(255-binary)# Find black pixels (walls)\nx,y,w_maze,h_maze=cv2.boundingRect(coords)\nprint(f"Maze bounding box: x={x}, y={y}, w={w_maze}, h={h_maze}")\n\n# It seems the maze fills most of the image.\n# Let's try to determine grid size by checking common divisors or visual estimation.\n# Let's assume the maze is roughly square.\n# Let's try to print out potential grid sizes.\n# If I look at the image, it seems to be around 17x17 or similar.\n# Let's try to detect lines.\n\n# Let's try a simpler approach: assume the maze is a grid of N x N cells.\n# Let's try to find N such that the cell size is consistent.\n# Let's try N from 10 to 30.\n# The bounding box is likely the whole image or close to it.\n# Let's assume the black border is part of the maze walls.\n\n# Let's try to infer grid size by looking at the image dimensions.\n# 512x512 is common, or similar. Let's check w, h again.\n# Let's try to divide w and h by integers to see if we get a reasonable cell size.\n# Let's guess the grid size is roughly 17x17 based on visual complexity.\n# Let's try to detect the grid by looking at the binary image.\n\n# Let's try to simply assume a grid size and see if it reconstructs well.\n# Let's try to count the number of black/white transitions in the middle row/col.\n\n# Let's try to detect the grid size by checking the run lengths in the binary image.\ndefestimate_grid_size(binary_img):\n# Scan middle row and column\nmid_row=binary_img[h//2,:]\nmid_col=binary_img[:,w//2]\n \n# This might be noisy. Let's try to just guess based on image size.\n# Let's print image size first.\nreturn\n\nprint(f"Image shape: {image.shape}")\n\n# Let's try to visualize the masks to confirm start and end points.\nplt.figure(figsize=(15,5))\n\nplt.subplot(1,3,1)\nplt.imshow(image)\nplt.title(f"Original Image ({w}x{h})")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,3,2)\nplt.imshow(mask_red,cmap='gray')\nplt.title(f"Red Mask (Start): {len(red_pixels)} pixels")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,3,3)\nplt.imshow(mask_green,cmap='gray')\nplt.title(f"Green Mask (End): {len(green_pixels)} pixels")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n\n# Calculate centroids for start and end\niflen(red_pixels)>0:\nstart_y,start_x=np.mean(red_pixels,axis=0).astype(int)\nprint(f"Start point (pixel): ({start_x}, {start_y})")\nelse:\nstart_x,start_y=-1,-1\n\niflen(green_pixels)>0:\nend_y,end_x=np.mean(green_pixels,axis=0).astype(int)\nprint(f"End point (pixel): ({end_x}, {end_y})")\nelse:\nend_x,end_y=-1,-1\n
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\n\n# Load the original image\nimage_path=image_clue[0]\nimage=np.array(image_path)\n\n# Parameters from previous step\nbbox_x,bbox_y=15,15\ncell_size=28\n# Path coordinates from previous execution\npath_coords=[\n(1,1),(1,2),(1,3),(2,3),(3,3),(4,3),(5,3),(6,3),(7,3),(8,3), \n(8,4),(8,5),(8,6),(8,7),(8,8),(7,8),(6,8),(5,8),(4,8),(3,8), \n(2,8),(1,8),(1,9),(1,10),(1,11),(1,12),(2,12),(3,12),(3,13), \n(3,14),(4,14),(5,14),(6,14),(6,13),(6,12),(6,11),(6,10),(7,10), \n(8,10),(8,11),(8,12),(9,12),(10,12),(10,11),(10,10),(10,9),(10,8), \n(10,7),(10,6),(11,6),(12,6),(12,5),(12,4),(12,3),(11,3),(10,3), \n(10,2),(10,1),(11,1),(12,1),(13,1),(14,1),(15,1),(16,1),(17,1), \n(17,2),(17,3),(18,3),(19,3),(19,4),(19,5),(19,6),(19,7),(19,8), \n(18,8),(17,8),(17,9),(16,9),(16,10),(15,10),(14,10),(13,10),(12,10), \n(12,11),(12,12),(13,12),(14,12),(15,12),(16,12),(17,12),(17,13), \n(17,14),(18,14),(19,14),(19,15),(19,16),(19,17),(19,18),(19,19)\n]\n\n# Create a copy of the image to draw on\nimage_copy=image.copy()\n\n# Function to get pixel center from grid coordinate\ndefget_pixel_center(r,c):\nx=bbox_x+c*cell_size+cell_size//2\ny=bbox_y+r*cell_size+cell_size//2\nreturn(x,y)\n\n# Draw the path\n# We can draw lines between centers or fill rectangles. Filling rectangles might look blocky but accurate.\n# Drawing lines with a thick width is usually smoother.\npoints=[get_pixel_center(r,c)forr,cinpath_coords]\npoints_np=np.array(points,dtype=np.int32).reshape((-1,1,2))\n\n# Draw lines\n# Color: Red (255, 0, 0)\n# Thickness: 10\ncv2.polylines(image_copy,[points_np],isClosed=False,color=(255,0,0),thickness=12)\n\n# Also mark start and end points clearly\n# Start: Green (0, 255, 0) - wait, original start is red, end is green.\n# Let's keep original colors or use distinct ones. The user asked to find the route from red to green.\n# I'll draw the path in a distinct color, maybe blue or keep red but thicker.\n# Let's use a bright magenta or just red with high thickness.\n# Let's re-draw with a slightly different color to stand out, e.g., (0, 255, 255) Cyan or (255, 0, 255) Magenta.\n# But red is fine if it's thick enough. Let's use (255, 50, 50) to be slightly different from the start dot.\n# Actually, let's just use the red color (255, 0, 0) as requested "red ball to green ball".\n# Let's re-draw with thickness 14 to cover the path well.\ncv2.polylines(image_copy,[points_np],isClosed=False,color=(255,0,0),thickness=14)\n\n# Highlight start and end\nstart_pt=get_pixel_center(1,1)\nend_pt=get_pixel_center(19,19)\ncv2.circle(image_copy,start_pt,8,(255,0,0),-1)# Red start\ncv2.circle(image_copy,end_pt,8,(0,128,0),-1)# Green end\n\nplt.figure(figsize=(15,15))\nplt.imshow(image_copy)\nplt.axis('off')\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n
There is one unique different icon in the figure. In which row and column is it located? Note: Both row and column numbers start from 1, counting from top to bottom as row 1, row 2, etc., and from left to right as column 1, column 2, etc. Please output a two-number list in the format [row, column]. For example, [1, 2] means the first row and the second column.
Put the final answer into the \\boxed{}.\n
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<think>
To locate the unique different icon in the image, I’ll first preprocess the image to segment the individual icons. Then, I’ll compare each icon to find the one that is different from the others. I’ll start by loading the image, converting it to grayscale, and then thresholding to separate the icons from the background. After that, I’ll find contours to identify the grid cells and extract each cell’s image. Finally, I’ll compare the extracted cells to find the outlier.
</think>
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\nimportsklearn.cluster\n\n# Load the image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n\n# Threshold to separate the yellow icons from the purple background\n# The background is purple, and icons are yellow. I'll use Otsu's thresholding after Gaussian blurring.\nblur=cv2.GaussianBlur(gray,(5,5),0)\nret,thresh=cv2.threshold(blur,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)\n\n# Find contours to detect individual icons\ncontours,_=cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)\n\n# Collect bounding boxes\nboxes=[]\nforcntincontours:\narea=cv2.contourArea(cnt)\nifarea>50:# Filter small noise\nx,y,w,h=cv2.boundingRect(cnt)\nboxes.append((x,y,w,h))\n\n# Sort boxes to form a grid\n# First, sort by y-coordinate to group into rows\n# I need to determine a tolerance to group boxes into the same row\nboxes_sorted_y=sorted(boxes,key=lambdak:k[1])\nrows=[]\nifboxes_sorted_y:\ncurrent_row=[boxes_sorted_y[0]]\nforiinrange(1,len(boxes_sorted_y)):\nprev_box=current_row[-1]\ncurr_box=boxes_sorted_y[i]\n# If the y-difference is small, they are in the same row\nifabs(curr_box[1]-prev_box[1])>10:# Adjust tolerance if needed\n# Sort current row by x-coordinate and add to rows\ncurrent_row_sorted=sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0])\nrows.append(current_row_sorted)\ncurrent_row=[]\ncurrent_row.append(curr_box)\n# Add last row\ncurrent_row_sorted=sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0])\nrows.append(current_row_sorted)\n\nprint(f"Number of rows: {len(rows)}")\nfori,rowinenumerate(rows):\nprint(f"Row {i+1}: {len(row)} columns")\n\n# Extract each icon and find the outlier\n# I'll resize all extracted icons to a common size and then flatten them to find the outlier\nicon_images=[]\npositions=[]\nforr_idx,rowinenumerate(rows):\nforc_idx,boxinenumerate(row):\nx,y,w,h=box\nroi=image[y:y+h,x:x+w]\nroi_resized=cv2.resize(roi,(20,20))# Resize to a standard size\nicon_images.append(roi_resized.flatten())\npositions.append((r_idx+1,c_idx+1))\n\nicon_images_np=np.array(icon_images)\n\n# Use K-means with K=2 to find the outlier, assuming one is different\n# Or simply find the one with the largest distance from the median\nmedian_icon=np.median(icon_images_np,axis=0)\ndistances=np.linalg.norm(icon_images_np-median_icon,axis=1)\noutlier_idx=np.argmax(distances)\noutlier_pos=positions[outlier_idx]\n\nprint(f"Outlier found at: Row {outlier_pos[0]}, Column {outlier_pos[1]}")\n\n# Visualize to confirm\noutlier_roi=image[rows[outlier_pos[0]-1][outlier_pos[1]-1][1]:rows[outlier_pos[0]-1][outlier_pos[1]-1][1]+rows[outlier_pos[0]-1][outlier_pos[1]-1][3],\nrows[outlier_pos[0]-1][outlier_pos[1]-1][0]:rows[outlier_pos[0]-1][outlier_pos[1]-1][0]+rows[outlier_pos[0]-1][outlier_pos[1]-1][2]]\n\nplt.figure(figsize=(10,5))\n\nplt.subplot(1,2,1)\nplt.imshow(image)\nplt.title(f"Full Image. Outlier at {outlier_pos}")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.subplot(1,2,2)\nplt.imshow(outlier_roi)\nplt.title(f"Outlier Icon at {outlier_pos}")\nplt.axis('off')\n\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n
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Number of rows: 1\nRow 1: 1 columns\nOutlier found at: Row 1, Column 1\n
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The previous code failed to segment the grid correctly, detecting only 1 row with 1 column. This is likely because the thresholding or contour finding didn’t separate the individual icons properly, possibly due to the text at the top or the color similarity. The displayed image shows the full image, confirming the segmentation failed.
Let’s re-examine the image. The background is purple, and the icons are yellow squares with a small white/lighter square inside. The text “Eye Test Challenge” is at the top.
I need to:
Crop out the text at the top to avoid interference.
Re-apply thresholding and contour detection.
Sort the bounding boxes into a grid.
Find the outlier.
Let’s try to crop the bottom 90% of the image first, assuming the text is at the very top. Or, I can try to detect contours and filter by size and position.
Let’s print the image shape and try a simple threshold again, perhaps visualizing the thresholded image to tune parameters.
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importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\n\n# Load image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\nh,w=image.shape[:2]\n\n# The text is at the top. Let's crop the bottom 90% to focus on the grid.\n# Visually, the grid starts a bit down. Let's try cropping from 10% height.\nstart_y=int(h*0.05)\ncropped_image=image[start_y:,:]\n\n# Convert to grayscale\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(cropped_image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n\n# The icons are yellow, background is purple.\n# Let's try Otsu thresholding on the cropped image.\nblur=cv2.GaussianBlur(gray,(5,5),0)\nret,thresh=cv2.threshold(blur,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)\n\n# Find contours\ncontours,_=cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)\n\n# Collect bounding boxes\nboxes=[]\nforcntincontours:\narea=cv2.contourArea(cnt)\nx,y,w_box,h_box=cv2.boundingRect(cnt)\n# Filter based on area to exclude noise and potentially the text if it wasn't cropped enough\n# The icons seem to be small squares. Let's guess a reasonable size range.\n# If the grid is roughly 15x15, and image is say 800x800, each cell is ~50x50.\nif100<area<2500:# Adjust as needed\nboxes.append((x,y+start_y,w_box,h_box))# Adjust y coordinate back to original image\n\nprint(f"Number of detected boxes: {len(boxes)}")\n\n# Sort boxes into a grid\n# Sort by y first\nboxes_sorted_y=sorted(boxes,key=lambdak:k[1])\nrows=[]\nifboxes_sorted_y:\ncurrent_row=[boxes_sorted_y[0]]\nforiinrange(1,len(boxes_sorted_y)):\nprev_box=current_row[-1]\ncurr_box=boxes_sorted_y[i]\n# Heuristic: if y difference is significant, start new row\n# Let's estimate row height from median height of boxes\nmedian_h=np.median([b[3]forbinboxes])\nifabs(curr_box[1]-prev_box[1])>median_h/2:\ncurrent_row_sorted=sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0])\nrows.append(current_row_sorted)\ncurrent_row=[]\ncurrent_row.append(curr_box)\ncurrent_row_sorted=sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0])\nrows.append(current_row_sorted)\n\nprint(f"Number of rows: {len(rows)}")\nfori,rowinenumerate(rows):\nprint(f"Row {i+1}: {len(row)} columns, boxes: {row[:3]}...")\n\n# Extract and find outlier\niflen(rows)>1:\nicon_images=[]\npositions=[]\nforr_idx,rowinenumerate(rows):\nforc_idx,boxinenumerate(row):\nx,y,wb,hb=box\nroi=image[y:y+hb,x:x+wb]\nroi_resized=cv2.resize(roi,(30,30))\nicon_images.append(roi_resized.flatten())\npositions.append((r_idx+1,c_idx+1))\n \nicon_images_np=np.array(icon_images)\nmedian_icon=np.median(icon_images_np,axis=0)\ndistances=np.linalg.norm(icon_images_np-median_icon,axis=1)\noutlier_idx=np.argmax(distances)\noutlier_pos=positions[outlier_idx]\n \nprint(f"Outlier found at: Row {outlier_pos[0]}, Column {outlier_pos[1]}")\n \n# Visualize\noutlier_box=rows[outlier_pos[0]-1][outlier_pos[1]-1]\nx,y,wb,hb=outlier_box\noutlier_roi=image[y:y+hb,x:x+wb]\n \nplt.figure(figsize=(15,5))\n \nplt.subplot(1,3,1)\nplt.imshow(thresh,cmap='gray')\nplt.title(f"Thresholded Image. Rows: {len(rows)}, Cols: {len(rows[0])ifrowselse0}")\nplt.axis('off')\n \nplt.subplot(1,3,2)\nplt.imshow(image)\nplt.title(f"Full Image. Outlier at {outlier_pos}")\nplt.axis('off')\n \nplt.subplot(1,3,3)\nplt.imshow(outlier_roi)\nplt.title(f"Outlier Icon at {outlier_pos}")\nplt.axis('off')\n \nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\nelse:\nprint("Grid detection failed. Displaying debug info.")\nplt.figure(figsize=(15,5))\nplt.subplot(1,2,1)\nplt.imshow(cropped_image)\nplt.title(f"Cropped Image (from y={start_y})")\nplt.axis('off')\nplt.subplot(1,2,2)\nplt.imshow(thresh,cmap='gray')\nplt.title(f"Thresholded Cropped Image. Num contours: {len(contours)}")\nplt.axis('off')\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n
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Number of detected boxes: 0\nNumber of rows: 0\nGrid detection failed. Displaying debug info.\n
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The previous attempt failed because the area filter 100 < area < 2500 was too restrictive or the coordinate adjustment was wrong. The debug image shows that the thresholding on the cropped image works well (black squares on white background, or vice versa). The thresholded image clearly shows the grid of icons. The number of contours is reported as 5, which is very low, likely because the findContours is finding the large white regions or the black regions depending on the inversion, but the area filter eliminated them.
Looking at the thresholded image in the debug output (right side), the icons are white squares on a black background (or black on white, need to check). Wait, the displayed thresholded image has white icons on black background. Let’s re-examine.\nIn cv2.threshold(..., cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV + cv2.THRESH_OTSU), if the background is dark and objects are light, THRESH_BINARY makes objects white. If background is light, THRESH_BINARY_INV makes objects white.\nThe original image has a purple background and yellow icons. Purple is darker than yellow. So after grayscale, background is dark, icons are light.\nTHRESH_BINARY_INV would make dark regions white and light regions black. This is counter-intuitive if I want icons to be white.\nLet’s look at the debug image again. The right subplot shows black squares on a white background? No, it looks like white squares on a black background, but the text “Eye Test Challenge” is also visible at the top as black text on white? Or maybe the cropping didn’t remove the text fully and the thresholding is weird.\nActually, looking at the right subplot, it seems the icons are black rectangles on a white background? No, let’s look closer. The background of the subplot is black, and there are white shapes. Wait, the subplot title is “Thresholded Cropped Image”. The shapes look like the icons.\nLet’s just re-run the contour detection on the cropped image with a broader area range and visualize the contours.\nAlso, the coordinate start_y was int(h * 0.05). The text might still be there.\nLet’s try to detect contours on the full grayscale image, filter by area, and then cluster their y-coordinates to find rows.
Let’s refine the cropping. The text is at the top. The grid seems to occupy most of the image.\nLet’s try to detect all contours on the cropped image without strict area filtering first, print some stats, and then filter.\nAlso, looking at the debug image, the cropped image starts at y=33. The text “Eye Test Challenge” is partially visible.\nLet’s try to crop more aggressively, say from 10% or just manually inspect the image dimensions.\nLet’s assume the grid is regular.
Let’s re-run contour detection on the cropped_image (which is image[start_y:, :]).\nThe thresholded image shown has white shapes on black background (or vice versa). Let’s assume the icons are the objects of interest.\nLet’s try cv2.THRESH_BINARY instead of INV if the icons are brighter.\nLet’s just try to find contours on the thresholded image shown in the debug plot. It seems to have successfully segmented the icons (the grid is visible). The issue is likely the area filtering or the findContours mode.\nWait, the debug output says “Num contours: 5”. But the image shows many squares. This is strange. Maybe findContours is finding the large black background as one contour and some noise?\nIf the thresholded image has white icons on black background, findContours on the binary image will find the white regions.\nLet’s check the thresholding logic again.\ncv2.threshold(blur, 0, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV + cv2.THRESH_OTSU)\nIf background (purple) is darker than icons (yellow), then in grayscale, background < icons.\nOtsu finds a threshold T.\nTHRESH_BINARY: src(x,y) > T ? 255 : 0. So icons become 255 (white), background 0 (black).\nTHRESH_BINARY_INV: src(x,y) > T ? 0 : 255. So icons become 0 (black), background 255 (white).\nThe debug image shows black squares on a white background? No, it’s hard to tell from the small thumbnail, but if there are only 5 contours, maybe it found the large white background and some noise.\nLet’s try cv2.THRESH_BINARY to make icons white.
Let’s also print the image shape to understand dimensions.\nAnd let’s try to detect contours on the full image, but ignore the top part by y-coordinate.
Let’s rewrite the detection logic:
Load image, convert to gray.
Crop bottom 90% to remove text.
Threshold with Otsu (try both BINARY and BINARY_INV).
Find contours.
Filter contours by area (e.g., between 50 and 1000 pixels, need to estimate).
Sort into grid.
Find outlier.
Let’s also print the number of contours found before filtering to debug.\nAnd visualize the contours on the image.
From the visual appearance, the grid is roughly 15x15 or similar.\nLet’s count rows and columns visually from the provided image.\nIt looks like roughly 15 rows and 21 columns? Or 15x15?\nLet’s just let the code determine it.
Let’s try again with better parameters.
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importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\n\n# Load image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\nh,w=image.shape[:2]\nprint(f"Image shape: {h}x{w}")\n\n# Crop to remove the title text at the top.\n# Based on visual, the title is about 5-10% of the height.\n# Let's try cropping from 8% down.\nstart_y=int(h*0.08)\ncropped_image=image[start_y:,:]\ncropped_h,cropped_w=cropped_image.shape[:2]\nprint(f"Cropped shape: {cropped_h}x{cropped_w}, start_y: {start_y}")\n\n# Convert to grayscale\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(cropped_image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\n\n# Apply Gaussian blur\nblur=cv2.GaussianBlur(gray,(5,5),0)\n\n# Apply Otsu's thresholding.\n# Since icons are yellow (bright) and background is purple (darker),\n# THRESH_BINARY should make icons white and background black.\nret,thresh=cv2.threshold(blur,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)\n\n# Find contours\ncontours,_=cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)\n\nprint(f"Total contours found: {len(contours)}")\n\n# Collect bounding boxes\nboxes=[]\nforcntincontours:\narea=cv2.contourArea(cnt)\nx,y,wb,hb=cv2.boundingRect(cnt)\n# Adjust coordinates to original image\ny_orig=y+start_y\n# Filter noise. Icons seem to be small squares.\n# Let's collect all and then decide, or use a loose filter.\n# Assuming icons are not tiny noise and not the whole image.\nif50<area<5000:# Loose bounds\nboxes.append((x,y_orig,wb,hb))\n\nprint(f"Number of boxes after filtering: {len(boxes)}")\n\n# If boxes are found, sort them\niflen(boxes)>10:\n# Sort by y to group into rows\nboxes_sorted_y=sorted(boxes,key=lambdak:k[1])\nrows=[]\ncurrent_row=[boxes_sorted_y[0]]\nforiinrange(1,len(boxes_sorted_y)):\nprev_box=current_row[-1]\ncurr_box=boxes_sorted_y[i]\n# Determine if new row based on y-difference\n# Use a threshold, e.g., half the median height of boxes\nmedian_h=np.median([b[3]forbinboxes])\nifabs(curr_box[1]-prev_box[1])>median_h*0.5:\n# Sort current row by x and add\ncurrent_row_sorted=sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0])\nrows.append(current_row_sorted)\ncurrent_row=[]\ncurrent_row.append(curr_box)\n# Add last row\ncurrent_row_sorted=sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0])\nrows.append(current_row_sorted)\n \nprint(f"Detected grid: {len(rows)} rows")\nfori,rowinenumerate(rows):\nprint(f"Row {i+1}: {len(row)} columns")\n \n# Extract icons and find outlier\nicon_images=[]\npositions=[]\nforr_idx,rowinenumerate(rows):\nforc_idx,boxinenumerate(row):\nx,y,wb,hb=box\nroi=image[y:y+hb,x:x+wb]\n# Resize to a common size for comparison\nroi_resized=cv2.resize(roi,(30,30))\nicon_images.append(roi_resized.flatten())\npositions.append((r_idx+1,c_idx+1))\n \nicon_images_np=np.array(icon_images)\n# Find outlier using distance from median\nmedian_icon=np.median(icon_images_np,axis=0)\ndistances=np.linalg.norm(icon_images_np-median_icon,axis=1)\noutlier_idx=np.argmax(distances)\noutlier_pos=positions[outlier_idx]\n \nprint(f"Outlier at: Row {outlier_pos[0]}, Column {outlier_pos[1]}")\n \n# Visualize\noutlier_box=rows[outlier_pos[0]-1][outlier_pos[1]-1]\nx,y,wb,hb=outlier_box\noutlier_roi=image[y:y+hb,x:x+wb]\n \nplt.figure(figsize=(20,5))\n \nplt.subplot(1,3,1)\nplt.imshow(thresh,cmap='gray')\nplt.title(f"Thresholded (Binary). Rows: {len(rows)}, Cols: {len(rows[0])ifrowselse0}")\nplt.axis('off')\n \nplt.subplot(1,3,2)\n# Draw rectangles on original image to verify detection\ndebug_img=image.copy()\nforr_idx,rowinenumerate(rows):\nforc_idx,boxinenumerate(row):\nx,y,wb,hb=box\ncv2.rectangle(debug_img,(x,y),(x+wb,y+hb),(0,255,0),1)\n# Highlight outlier\nx,y,wb,hb=outlier_box\ncv2.rectangle(debug_img,(x,y),(x+wb,y+hb),(255,0,0),2)\nplt.imshow(debug_img)\nplt.title(f"Detected Grid. Outlier: {outlier_pos}")\nplt.axis('off')\n \nplt.subplot(1,3,3)\nplt.imshow(outlier_roi)\nplt.title(f"Outlier Icon: Row {outlier_pos[0]}, Col {outlier_pos[1]}")\nplt.axis('off')\n \nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\nelse:\nprint("Not enough boxes found. Trying different threshold or crop.")\n# Display threshold to debug\nplt.figure(figsize=(15,5))\nplt.subplot(1,2,1)\nplt.imshow(cropped_image)\nplt.title(f"Cropped Image (y>{start_y})")\nplt.axis('off')\nplt.subplot(1,2,2)\nplt.imshow(thresh,cmap='gray')\nplt.title(f"Thresholded Image. Contours: {len(contours)}")\nplt.axis('off')\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n
The code detected a 15x22 grid. However, looking at the thresholded image (left subplot), the grid seems to be 15 rows and roughly 21 or 22 columns. Wait, let me count visually from the original image or the thresholded one.\nLooking at the thresholded image, I can count the columns.\nLet’s look at the outlier image. It shows a purple square with a lighter border, but it’s very blurry and zoomed in. The outlier detection points to (5, 12).\nLet’s visually verify the grid size from the original image.\nCounting columns in the original image:\nRow 1: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.\nIt looks like 21 columns.\nLet’s re-count.\nThe code says 22 columns. This might be due to noise or splitting one icon into two.\nLet’s look at the thresholded image again. The white blobs look distinct.\nLet’s count the blobs in the first row of the thresholded image.\nAlso, the outlier image shown is very zoomed in and blurry, making it hard to confirm if it’s the correct one. The red box in the middle image highlights a specific icon. Let’s look at that icon in the middle image. It seems to be a square with a different inner pattern or color.\nHowever, if the grid detection is wrong (22 vs 21 columns), the row/column indices will be wrong.\nLet’s re-examine the bounding boxes. Maybe some icons are split or noise is detected as an icon.\nThe total number of contours is 330. 15 * 22 = 330. This is a very consistent number, suggesting the detection is stable, but maybe the column count is indeed 22? Or maybe 15*21 = 315 and there are 15 extra noise detections?\nLet’s look at the original image again.\nLet’s count columns visually from the provided image.\nTop row:\n1(yellow), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.\nIt looks like 21 columns to me. Let me count again carefully.\nLet’s use code to count unique x-coordinates or cluster them to determine the number of columns.\nAlso, the outlier at (5, 12) in a 22-column grid would be different from (5, 12) in a 21-column grid if the extra column is inserted somewhere.\nLet’s look at the middle image with the red box. The red box is around the 12th item in the 5th row (visually counting from the image).\nLet’s count rows and columns from the middle image visually.\nThe red box is in the 5th row from the top (excluding the title).\nCounting columns from left: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. The red box is indeed at the 12th position.\nWait, if there are 21 columns, the middle is around 11. 12 is slightly right of center.\nLet’s verify the total count. 15 rows * 21 columns = 315 items.\nThe code found 330 items. 330 / 15 = 22.\nSo either there are 22 columns, or there are 15 noise detections (1 per row?).\nLet’s look at the thresholded image again. The blobs look uniform.\nMaybe I should re-run the detection with a check on bounding box sizes to filter out potential splits or noise.\nOr, I can simply look at the image provided in the middle subplot. The red rectangle clearly highlights one specific icon. I can visually count its position from that image.\nLet’s count rows and columns from the middle subplot image.\nRows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (the one with red box).\nColumns: Let’s count from left. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.\nIt seems the code’s detection of (5, 12) might be correct even if the total column count is debatable, as long as the grid structure is preserved left-to-right.\nBut wait, if there are 21 columns and the code thinks 22, where is the extra one?\nIf the code splits one icon into two, the indices after that split will be shifted.\nLet’s check the bounding box widths. If most are ~20px and one is ~10px, that’s a split.\nLet’s print statistics of bounding box widths and heights.\nAlso, let’s look at the outlier icon image again. It looks like a purple square with a lighter border. The other icons are yellow squares with a lighter border? Or maybe the “different” one is a square outline vs filled?\nLooking at the original image, most icons are yellow squares with a small white square inside (like a picture frame). The different one might be just a square outline or a different color.\nIn the middle subplot, the highlighted icon (red box) looks like a small white square outline, while others are yellow filled squares? It’s hard to tell at that resolution.\nLet’s look at the thresholded image (left). Most blobs are solid white rectangles. One blob in row 5 seems to have a hole or is different?\nIn the left subplot (thresholded), row 5, somewhere in the middle, there is a blob that looks like a square ring (white border, black center) while others are solid white? Or vice versa?\nActually, looking closely at the left subplot, row 5, column ~12, there is a small black square inside the white blob? No, it looks like a white square with a black dot?\nLet’s re-examine the original image. The icons are yellow squares with a white inner square. The “different” one might be a square with a different inner color or shape.\nLet’s trust the outlier detection but verify the grid dimensions.\n330 items detected. 15 rows. 330/15 = 22.\nLet’s count columns in the original image again very carefully.\nI will write code to count columns by clustering x-coordinates.
Also, let’s look at the outlier image (right subplot). It’s a 30x30 resized image. It looks purple with some lighter borders. This is strange because the background is purple and icons are yellow. If the outlier is detected as different, and it looks purple, maybe it’s a missing icon or a different color icon.\nWait, if the outlier is at (5,12) and the image shows a purple-ish patch, maybe that’s the background? But the bounding box should have captured an icon.\nLet’s look at the middle image again. The red box is around a small white square. The other icons are yellow. This suggests the outlier is indeed a white square (or empty square) among yellow squares.\nLet’s confirm the position by counting on the original image.\nI’ll count columns on the original image by loading it and displaying a zoomed in crop of the top-left area to count manually.
Let’s also re-run the grid detection, printing unique widths to see if 22 is correct or if there’s a split.\nAnd I’ll try to count columns by looking at the x-coordinates of the boxes.
One more thing: 15 rows * 21 columns = 315. 330 - 315 = 15. This suggests exactly 1 extra detection per row. This is a strong hint that one icon per row is being split into two, or there’s a systematic error.\nIf one icon is split into two in each row, the column index would be off by the number of splits before that column.\nHowever, if the split is consistent (e.g., always the last one, or always a specific one), the relative order might be preserved but indices shifted.\nBut 15 extra detections is suspicious. Maybe the grid is indeed 22 columns?\nLet’s count visually from the image.\nRow 1: [icon][icon]…\nLet’s use python to count.
Let’s refine the plan:
Re-detect contours.
Print histogram of bounding box widths.
Cluster x-coordinates to find number of unique columns.
Re-calculate row/col indices based on correct grid size.
Verify the outlier location.
Also, looking at the provided solution image (middle), the red box is clearly visible. I can try to count columns from that image visually.\nLet’s assume the code’s row detection (15 rows) is correct.\nLet’s assume the outlier is indeed the one highlighted.\nI need to be sure about the column count.\nLet’s try to count columns from the original image by simple visual estimation or code.\nThe image width is 736. If 21 columns, width ~35. If 22 columns, width ~33.\nThe detected boxes have widths. I can check the median width.\nIf median width is W, and total width is 736, then N_cols ~ 736/W.
Let’s execute code to analyze bounding boxes and re-determine grid.
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importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\nfromsklearn.clusterimportKMeans\n\n# Load image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\nh,w=image.shape[:2]\n\n# Use parameters from previous successful detection\nstart_y=int(h*0.08)\ncropped_image=image[start_y:,:]\ngray=cv2.cvtColor(cropped_image,cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)\nblur=cv2.GaussianBlur(gray,(5,5),0)\nret,thresh=cv2.threshold(blur,0,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)\n\n# Find contours\ncontours,_=cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)\n\nboxes=[]\nforcntincontours:\narea=cv2.contourArea(cnt)\nx,y,wb,hb=cv2.boundingRect(cnt)\ny_orig=y+start_y\nif50<area<5000:\nboxes.append((x,y_orig,wb,hb))\n\nprint(f"Number of boxes: {len(boxes)}")\n\n# Analyze widths and heights\nwidths=[b[2]forbinboxes]\nheights=[b[3]forbinboxes]\nprint(f"Median width: {np.median(widths)}, Median height: {np.median(heights)}")\nprint(f"Unique widths (sorted): {sorted(list(set(widths)))[:10]}...")\nprint(f"Unique heights (sorted): {sorted(list(set(heights)))[:10]}...")\n\n# Sort boxes to form grid\nboxes_sorted_y=sorted(boxes,key=lambdak:k[1])\nrows=[]\nifboxes_sorted_y:\ncurrent_row=[boxes_sorted_y[0]]\nforiinrange(1,len(boxes_sorted_y)):\nprev_box=current_row[-1]\ncurr_box=boxes_sorted_y[i]\nmedian_h=np.median(heights)\nifabs(curr_box[1]-prev_box[1])>median_h*0.5:\ncurrent_row_sorted=sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0])\nrows.append(current_row_sorted)\ncurrent_row=[]\ncurrent_row.append(curr_box)\ncurrent_row_sorted=sorted(current_row,key=lambdak:k[0])\nrows.append(current_row_sorted)\n\nprint(f"Number of rows: {len(rows)}")\ncol_counts=[len(r)forrinrows]\nprint(f"Columns per row: {col_counts}")\n\n# If column counts are uniform, proceed. If not, investigate.\n# Assuming uniform for now to find outlier\niflen(set(col_counts))==1:\nn_cols=col_counts[0]\nprint(f"Grid size: {len(rows)}x{n_cols}")\n \n# Extract and find outlier\nicon_images=[]\npositions=[]\nforr_idx,rowinenumerate(rows):\nforc_idx,boxinenumerate(row):\nx,y,wb,hb=box\nroi=image[y:y+hb,x:x+wb]\nroi_resized=cv2.resize(roi,(30,30))\nicon_images.append(roi_resized.flatten())\npositions.append((r_idx+1,c_idx+1))\n \nicon_images_np=np.array(icon_images)\nmedian_icon=np.median(icon_images_np,axis=0)\ndistances=np.linalg.norm(icon_images_np-median_icon,axis=1)\n \n# Find top 5 outliers to inspect\ntop_k_indices=np.argsort(distances)[::-1][:5]\nforidxintop_k_indices:\npos=positions[idx]\nprint(f"Outlier candidate: Row {pos[0]}, Col {pos[1]}, Distance: {distances[idx]}")\n \n# Visualize top outlier\nifidx==top_k_indices[0]:\noutlier_box=rows[pos[0]-1][pos[1]-1]\nx,y,wb,hb=outlier_box\noutlier_roi=image[y:y+hb,x:x+wb]\n \nplt.figure(figsize=(10,5))\nplt.subplot(1,2,1)\nplt.imshow(outlier_roi)\nplt.title(f"Top Outlier at {pos}")\nplt.axis('off')\n \n# Also show a typical icon for comparison\ntypical_box=rows[0][0]\nxt,yt,wbt,hbt=typical_box\ntypical_roi=image[yt:yt+hbt,xt:xt+wbt]\nplt.subplot(1,2,2)\nplt.imshow(typical_roi)\nplt.title(f"Typical Icon at (1,1)")\nplt.axis('off')\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\nelse:\nprint("Grid is not uniform. Investigating row lengths.")\n
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Number of boxes: 330\nMedian width: 20.0, Median height: 24.0\nUnique widths (sorted): [20]…\nUnique heights (sorted): [24]…\nNumber of rows: 15\nColumns per row: [22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22]\nGrid size: 15x22\nOutlier candidate: Row 5, Col 12, Distance: 4484.878147731552
Outlier candidate: Row 10, Col 22, Distance: 485.6737588134652\nOutlier candidate: Row 10, Col 15, Distance: 482.7711673246446\nOutlier candidate: Row 10, Col 4, Distance: 482.7711673246446\nOutlier candidate: Row 10, Col 3, Distance: 482.7711673246446
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The code detects a 15x22 grid. The outlier is at Row 5, Column 12.\nThe visual comparison shows:
Top Outlier at (5, 12): A purple square with a border.
Typical Icon at (1, 1): A yellow square with a border.\nThis confirms that the icon at (5, 12) is indeed different (purple vs yellow).\nHowever, I need to be absolutely certain about the column count. 15x22 = 330.\nLet’s visually count columns from the original image again.\nLooking at the original image, the aspect ratio is roughly square (672x736).\nIf there are 15 rows and 21 columns, aspect ratio of cells would be roughly (736/21) / (672/15) = 35 / 44.8 = 0.78.\nIf there are 15 rows and 22 columns, aspect ratio would be (736/22) / (672/15) = 33.45 / 44.8 = 0.74.\nThe detected bounding boxes are 20x24, aspect ratio 0.83.\nLet’s re-count columns from the provided image.\nI will count the icons in the first row of the original image displayed in the first message.\n1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.\nIt really looks like 21 columns.\nWhy did the code find 22?\nMaybe the text “Eye Test Challenge” or some artifact was detected as a box in each row? But the boxes are filtered by area and y-coordinate grouping seems consistent.\nWait, if the code found 330 boxes and 15 rows, and each row has exactly 22 boxes, and the visual count is 21, then 15 boxes are spurious.\nWhere could 15 spurious boxes come from? One per row?\nMaybe the icons have a shadow or a highlight that is detected as a separate contour?\nBut the bounding box width is consistently 20. If an icon was split, one part would be smaller.\nLet’s look at the unique widths: only [20]. This suggests all detected objects have width 20.\nIf the true icon width is 20, and there are 21 columns, total width is 420. Image width is 736. This leaves 316 pixels for gaps. 316/20 = 15.8 pixels gap. Plausible.\nIf there are 22 columns, total width 440. Gaps 296. 296/21 = 14 pixels gap. Also plausible.\nLet’s count again.\nLet’s look at the thresholded image from the first code execution (left subplot). It shows a grid of white blobs.\nLet’s count the blobs in the first row of that image.\nIt’s hard to count precisely from the thumbnail.\nHowever, the outlier detection is very strong (distance 4484 vs 485). The visual evidence (purple vs yellow) is compelling.\nThe position is Row 5, Column 12 (in a 22-column grid).\nIf the grid is actually 21 columns, where is the extra column?\nIf there is 1 extra detection per row, and they are all width 20, maybe the icons are actually 2 columns wide? No, that doesn’t make sense.\nMaybe the grid is 15x22 and my visual count is wrong.\nLet’s try to count again from the original image.\nLet’s use the fact that the outlier is visually distinct.\nLet’s assume the code’s row count (15) is correct.\nLet’s assume the code’s column count (22) might be wrong by a constant offset or split.\nBut if each row has exactly 22 detections, and visual count is 21, then there is 1 false positive per row.\nIf the false positive is at a consistent position (e.g., always at the end, or always splitting one icon), the column index of the outlier might be shifted.\nHowever, if the false positive is random, the grid structure would be broken.\nGiven the uniformity (all rows have 22), it’s likely a systematic issue or my visual count is wrong.\nLet’s look at the outlier image again. It’s at (5, 12).\nLet’s try to verify by checking the x-coordinates.\nIf I sort all unique x-coordinates and cluster them, I can find the number of columns.\nLet’s do that.
Also, let’s look at the outlier image (purple square) vs typical (yellow square).\nIn the original image, I can see a purple square among yellow ones.\nLet’s locate it visually.\nRow 1: all yellow.\nRow 2: all yellow.\nRow 3: all yellow.\nRow 4: all yellow.\nRow 5: … somewhere in the middle … there is a purple square!\nLet’s count columns in Row 5 of the original image.\n1(y), 2(y), 3(y), 4(y), 5(y), 6(y), 7(y), 8(y), 9(y), 10(y), 11(y), 12(purple?), 13(y)…\nLet’s count carefully on the original image.\nThe purple square is the one that looks like an empty frame or just the background color inside.\nWait, the outlier image shows a purple center. The typical icon shows a yellow center.\nSo I’m looking for a purple-centered square.\nScanning row 5:\nIcons look yellow, yellow, yellow…\nLet’s count from the left in the original image.\nThe grid seems to start after some margin.\nLet’s rely on the code’s row index (5) which seems robust.\nNow for the column index.\nIf the code says 12 in a 22-col grid, and true is 21-col grid.\nIf 1 extra per row, maybe the extra is at the end? Then index 12 is correct.\nIf the extra is at the beginning? Then index 11.\nLet’s check the x-coordinates clustering.
One more check: 15 rows * 21 cols = 315. 330 detected.\n330/15 = 22.\nCould it be 15 rows * 22 cols?\nLet’s look at the aspect ratio of the whole grid area.\nIf 21 cols: width ~ 2120 + 2014 = 420 + 280 = 700. (assuming 14px gaps).\nIf 22 cols: width ~ 2220 + 2114 = 440 + 294 = 734.\nImage width is 736. This matches 22 columns much better!\nWith 21 columns, we’d have 700 width, leaving 36 pixels margin (18 each side).\nWith 22 columns, we’d have 734 width, leaving 2 pixels margin (1 each side).\nGiven the image fills the frame, 22 columns is very plausible.\nLet’s re-count visually. Maybe I missed one.\nLet’s assume 22 columns is correct.\nThen the outlier is at Row 5, Column 12.
Let’s double check the visual count again.\nMaybe the icons are closer together.\nLet’s trust the code’s detection of 22 columns, supported by the width calculation (736px width fits 2220 + gaps better than 2120 + gaps if gaps are small).\nWait, if gaps are 0, 22*20 = 440. Still leaves 300px.\nLet’s look at the thresholded image again. The white blobs are separated by black.\nThe gaps seem significant.\nLet’s re-evaluate:\nIf 21 cols, width 736. Avg cell width (including gap) = 736/21 = 35.05.\nIf 22 cols, width 736. Avg cell width = 736/22 = 33.45.\nDetected box width is 20.\nSo gap would be 15px (for 21 cols) or 13.45px (for 22 cols). Both are plausible.\nHowever, the code found exactly 22 boxes per row with width 20.\nIf there were 21 icons and 1 noise per row, the noise would also have to be width 20 and area similar to icons. This is unlikely to happen consistently 15 times.\nIt is more likely that there are indeed 22 columns.\nMy visual count of 21 might be off by one due to poor resolution or counting error.\nLet’s assume the code is correct: 15 rows, 22 columns.\nOutlier at Row 5, Column 12.
Let’s verify the outlier visual again.\nThe code shows “Top Outlier at (5, 12)” is purple-centered.\n“Typical Icon at (1,1)” is yellow-centered.\nThis matches the task description “unique different icon”.\nSo the location is Row 5, Column 12.
Wait, I should confirm the row count too.\nCode says 15 rows.\nVisual count of rows:\n1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.\nYes, 15 rows seems correct.\nSo the grid is 15x22.\nThe outlier is at [5, 12].
Let me try to count columns one more time from the original image crop shown in the second execution (middle subplot).\nThe red box is at row 5.\nCounting columns from left to right in that image:\nThe red box is the 12th one?\nLet’s count:\n1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, [12-red].\nYes, it looks like the 12th one.\nAnd the total number of columns in that row seems to be more than 12*2=24? No, maybe 20-22.\nLet’s count the remaining after 12: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22.\nIt looks like there are about 10 more to the right. 12+10 = 22.\nThis supports the 22 column hypothesis.\nMy initial visual count of 21 was likely a mistake.
Therefore, the outlier is at Row 5, Column 12.
Final check:
Image size 672x736.
15 rows, 22 columns.
Outlier at (5, 12).
Outlier is purple, others are yellow.
One minor point: The problem asks for [row, column].\nMy code outputs (5, 12).\nI will output [5, 12].
Wait, let’s look at the outlier image again. The purple square has a border. The yellow square has a border.\nThe difference is the fill color.\nThe code’s outlier detection is based on pixel difference, which is robust here.\nThe position (5, 12) is consistent with visual inspection of the debug image.
One more sanity check. What if the grid is 15x21 and the code detected an extra column of noise on the right?\nIf so, the indices 1-21 would be shifted or correct?\nIf noise is at the end, indices 1-21 are correct.\nIf noise is at the beginning, indices are shifted by 1.\nGiven the uniform width of 20 for all 330 boxes, it’s highly unlikely to be noise. Noise would likely have different size.\nSo 22 columns is the most probable truth.
Final Answer seems to be [5, 12].
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Based on the code analysis, the image contains a grid of icons with 15 rows and 22 columns. The code detected 330 icons (15 * 22). The outlier detection identified the icon at Row 5, Column 12 as significantly different from the others. Visual inspection of the debug images confirms that the icon at this position has a purple center, while the typical icons have a yellow center. The grid dimensions and the position of the outlier are consistent with the visual evidence in the debug plots.
importcv2\nimportnumpyasnp\nimportmatplotlib.pyplotasplt\n\n# Load the image\nimage=np.array(image_clue[0])\nplt.figure(figsize=(15,15))\nplt.imshow(image)\nplt.axis('off')\nplt.tight_layout()\nplt.show()\n\n# Since OCR might be unreliable on simple grid images without clear bounding boxes,\n# I will manually transcribe the sudoku grid from the image into a 2D list.\n# 0 represents an empty cell.\n\nsudoku_grid=[\n[0,1,8,5,0,0,4,2,6],\n[6,5,3,0,8,0,1,7,0],\n[0,7,0,9,1,0,5,3,0],\n[2,3,0,0,0,0,0,0,5],\n[0,6,4,3,2,0,0,1,0],\n[0,9,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],\n[0,0,0,0,0,0,6,8,0],\n[0,0,6,0,7,2,3,0,0],\n[0,0,1,0,4,0,7,0,0]\n]\n\ndefprint_grid(grid):\nforrowingrid:\nprint(row)\n\nprint("Initial Sudoku Grid:")\nprint_grid(sudoku_grid)\n\ndefis_valid(grid,row,col,num):\n# Check row\nforxinrange(9):\nifgrid[row][x]==num:\nreturnFalse\n\n# Check column\nforxinrange(9):\nifgrid[x][col]==num:\nreturnFalse\n\n# Check 3x3 box\nstart_row=row-row%3\nstart_col=col-col%3\nforiinrange(3):\nforjinrange(3):\nifgrid[i+start_row][j+start_col]==num:\nreturnFalse\nreturnTrue\n\ndefsolve_sudoku(grid):\nforiinrange(9):\nforjinrange(9):\nifgrid[i][j]==0:\nfornuminrange(1,10):\nifis_valid(grid,i,j,num):\ngrid[i][j]=num\nifsolve_sudoku(grid):\nreturnTrue\ngrid[i][j]=0\nreturnFalse\nreturnTrue\n\n# Solve the sudoku\nifsolve_sudoku(sudoku_grid):\nprint("\\nSolved Sudoku Grid:")\nprint_grid(sudoku_grid)\nelse:\nprint("No solution exists")\n
图中展示了滑动方块游戏的两个棋盘：左边是当前状态 (current state)，右边是目标状态 (target state)。\n请给出从左边棋盘（当前状态）变到右边棋盘（目标状态）的最短移动路径。\n移动路径由 ‘块ID+方向’ 序列组成。方向使用 U (上), D (下), L (左), R (右)。\n例如：‘1U1L2D’ 表示1号块向上移一格，再向左移一格，然后2号块向下移一格。\n如果有多条最短路径，请按块ID从小到大、方向(U,D,L,R)的顺序优先选择。\n
importcollections\n\ndefsolve_sliding_puzzle():\n# Define grid size\nROWS=6\nCOLS=6\n \n# Define initial state\n# 0 represents empty space\nstart_grid=[\n[3,3,5,1,1,0],\n[3,3,2,2,1,14],\n[9,9,2,2,13,14],\n[7,7,0,10,4,4],\n[8,8,6,6,4,4],\n[11,11,6,6,12,12]\n]\n \n# Define target state\ntarget_grid=[\n[3,3,0,5,1,1],\n[3,3,2,2,1,14],\n[9,9,2,2,13,14],\n[7,7,6,6,4,4],\n[0,10,6,6,4,4],\n[8,8,11,11,12,12]\n]\n \n# Helper to convert grid to tuple for hashing\ndefgrid_to_tuple(grid):\nreturntuple(tuple(row)forrowingrid)\n \nstart_state=grid_to_tuple(start_grid)\ntarget_state=grid_to_tuple(target_grid)\n \n# Identify all unique block IDs\nblock_ids=set()\nforrinrange(ROWS):\nforcinrange(COLS):\nifstart_grid[r][c]!=0:\nblock_ids.add(start_grid[r][c])\nblock_ids=sorted(list(block_ids))\n \n# Directions: U, D, L, R\n# (dr, dc, direction_char)\ndirections=[(-1,0,'U'),(1,0,'D'),(0,-1,'L'),(0,1,'R')]\n \n# BFS\n# Queue stores (state, path_string)\nqueue=collections.deque([(start_state,"")])\nvisited={start_state}\n \nwhilequeue:\ncurrent_state_tuple,path=queue.popleft()\n \nifcurrent_state_tuple==target_state:\nreturnpath\n \n# Convert to list of lists for manipulation\ncurrent_grid=[list(row)forrowincurrent_state_tuple]\n \n# Try moving each block in each direction\n# Order: block ID ascending, then direction U, D, L, R\nforbidinblock_ids:\n# Find all cells occupied by this block\ncells=[]\nforrinrange(ROWS):\nforcinrange(COLS):\nifcurrent_grid[r][c]==bid:\ncells.append((r,c))\n \nifnotcells:\ncontinue\n \n# Determine bounding box to check movement validity efficiently\n# But simply checking neighbors is safer for irregular shapes (though here shapes are rectangles)\n# Let's just check if the move is valid for all cells of the block\n \nfordr,dc,dcharindirections:\n# Check if move is valid\nvalid_move=True\nnew_cells=[]\nforr,cincells:\nnr,nc=r+dr,c+dc\nifnot(0<=nr<ROWSand0<=nc<COLS):\nvalid_move=False\nbreak\n# Check if the new cell is empty or part of the same block (which is fine, but we are moving the whole block)\n# The condition is: the new position must be empty (0) OR it must be a cell currently occupied by the same block that is moving AWAY from it?\n# No, simpler logic:\n# The set of new cells must not overlap with any cell of other blocks.\n# Overlap with self is impossible if we move rigidly.\n# So we just need to check if the "frontier" cells are empty.\nnew_cells.append((nr,nc))\n \nifnotvalid_move:\ncontinue\n \n# Check for collisions with other blocks\n# Create a set of current block positions for quick lookup\ncurrent_block_set=set(cells)\nfornr,ncinnew_cells:\nif(nr,nc)notincurrent_block_set:\nifcurrent_grid[nr][nc]!=0:\nvalid_move=False\nbreak\n \nifvalid_move:\n# Perform move\nnew_grid=[list(row)forrowincurrent_grid]\n# Clear old positions\nforr,cincells:\nnew_grid[r][c]=0\n# Set new positions\nfornr,ncinnew_cells:\nnew_grid[nr][nc]=bid\n \nnew_state_tuple=grid_to_tuple(new_grid)\nifnew_state_tuplenotinvisited:\nvisited.add(new_state_tuple)\nnew_path=path+f"{bid}{dchar}"\nqueue.append((new_state_tuple,new_path))\n \nreturn"No solution found"\n\nresult=solve_sliding_puzzle()\nprint(f"Solution path: {result}")\n
importcollections\n\ndefsolve_sliding_puzzle():\n# Define grid size\nROWS,COLS=6,6\n \n# Initial state (Left image)\n# Based on visual inspection:\n# Row 0: 3(2x2), 5(1x1), Empty, 1(1x2), Empty\n# Row 1: 3(2x2), 2(2x2), 1(1x2), 14(1x2)\n# Row 2: 9(2x1), 2(2x2), 13(1x1), 14(1x2)\n# Row 3: 7(2x1), Empty, 10(1x1), 4(2x2)\n# Row 4: 8(2x1), 6(2x2), 4(2x2)\n# Row 5: 11(2x1), 6(2x2), 12(2x1)\n \nstart_grid=[\n[3,3,5,0,1,0],\n[3,3,2,2,1,14],\n[9,9,2,2,13,14],\n[7,7,0,10,4,4],\n[8,8,6,6,4,4],\n[11,11,6,6,12,12]\n]\n \n# Target state (Right image)\n# Row 0: 3(2x2), Empty, 5(1x1), 1(1x2), Empty\n# Row 1: 3(2x2), 2(2x2), 1(1x2), 14(1x2)\n# Row 2: 9(2x1), 2(2x2), 13(1x1), 14(1x2)\n# Row 3: 7(2x1), 6(2x2), 4(2x2)\n# Row 4: Empty, 10(1x1), 6(2x2), 4(2x2)\n# Row 5: 8(2x1), 11(2x1), 12(2x1)\n \ntarget_grid=[\n[3,3,0,5,1,0],\n[3,3,2,2,1,14],\n[9,9,2,2,13,14],\n[7,7,6,6,4,4],\n[0,10,6,6,4,4],\n[8,8,11,11,12,12]\n]\n \n# Helper to convert grid to tuple for hashing\ndefgrid_to_tuple(grid):\nreturntuple(tuple(row)forrowingrid)\n \nstart_state=grid_to_tuple(start_grid)\ntarget_state=grid_to_tuple(target_grid)\n \n# Identify blocks and their sizes\n# We can infer sizes from the start grid or hardcode them.\n# Let's infer from start grid to be safe, assuming consistent sizes.\nblock_sizes={}\nvisited_blocks=set()\nforrinrange(ROWS):\nforcinrange(COLS):\nbid=start_grid[r][c]\nifbid!=0andbidnotinvisited_blocks:\nvisited_blocks.add(bid)\n# Find extent\nmax_r,max_c=r,c\nwhilemax_r+1<ROWSandstart_grid[max_r+1][c]==bid:\nmax_r+=1\nwhilemax_c+1<COLSandstart_grid[r][max_c+1]==bid:\nmax_c+=1\n# Check if it's a rectangle\nis_rect=True\nforrrinrange(r,max_r+1):\nforccinrange(c,max_c+1):\nifstart_grid[rr][cc]!=bid:\nis_rect=False\nbreak\nifis_rect:\nblock_sizes[bid]=(max_r-r+1,max_c-c+1)\nelse:\n# Fallback or error, but for this puzzle it should be rectangles\npass\n \n# BFS\nqueue=collections.deque([(start_state,"")])\nvisited={start_state}\n \ndirections=[('U',-1,0),('D',1,0),('L',0,-1),('R',0,1)]\n \nwhilequeue:\ncurrent_state,path=queue.popleft()\n \nifcurrent_state==target_state:\nreturnpath\n \n# Convert to list of lists for manipulation\ncurrent_grid=[list(row)forrowincurrent_state]\n \n# Find all movable blocks and try moves\n# To ensure order: block ID ascending, then direction U, D, L, R\n# We need to find unique blocks in the current state\nblocks_in_state=sorted(list(set(valforrowincurrent_gridforvalinrowifval!=0)))\n \nforbidinblocks_in_state:\n# Find position of block (top-left)\n# Since blocks are rectangular and don't overlap, finding any cell and expanding is enough.\n# But we need top-left to check boundaries easily.\n# Let's find all cells of this block\ncells=[]\nforrinrange(ROWS):\nforcinrange(COLS):\nifcurrent_grid[r][c]==bid:\ncells.append((r,c))\nifnotcells:continue\n \nmin_r,min_c=min(rforr,cincells),min(cforr,cincells)\nmax_r,max_c=max(rforr,cincells),max(cforr,cincells)\nh,w=max_r-min_r+1,max_c-min_c+1\n \nfordirection,dr,dcindirections:\n# Check if move is valid\n# New position would be (min_r+dr, min_c+dc) to (max_r+dr, max_c+dc)\nnew_min_r,new_min_c=min_r+dr,min_c+dc\nnew_max_r,new_max_c=max_r+dr,max_c+dc\n \nif0<=new_min_randnew_max_r<ROWSand0<=new_min_candnew_max_c<COLS:\n# Check if target cells are empty (0)\n# The cells to check are the "frontier" in the direction of movement\nvalid_move=True\nifdirection=='U':\ncheck_r=new_min_r\nforcinrange(min_c,max_c+1):\nifcurrent_grid[check_r][c]!=0:\nvalid_move=False\nbreak\nelifdirection=='D':\ncheck_r=new_max_r\nforcinrange(min_c,max_c+1):\nifcurrent_grid[check_r][c]!=0:\nvalid_move=False\nbreak\nelifdirection=='L':\ncheck_c=new_min_c\nforrinrange(min_r,max_r+1):\nifcurrent_grid[r][check_c]!=0:\nvalid_move=False\nbreak\nelifdirection=='R':\ncheck_c=new_max_c\nforrinrange(min_r,max_r+1):\nifcurrent_grid[r][check_c]!=0:\nvalid_move=False\nbreak\n \nifvalid_move:\n# Perform move\nnew_grid=[list(row)forrowincurrent_grid]\n# Clear old positions\nforrinrange(min_r,max_r+1):\nforcinrange(min_c,max_c+1):\nnew_grid[r][c]=0\n# Set new positions\nforrinrange(new_min_r,new_max_r+1):\nforcinrange(new_min_c,new_max_c+1):\nnew_grid[r][c]=bid\n \nnew_state=grid_to_tuple(new_grid)\nifnew_statenotinvisited:\nvisited.add(new_state)\nnew_path=path+f"{bid}{direction}"\nqueue.append((new_state,new_path))\n \nreturn"No solution found"\n\nprint(solve_sliding_puzzle())\n
看起来我的矩阵定义是正确的。\nBFS找到的路径应该是最短的。\n解字符串：5R10L14U13R1D5R2U9R9R7U10L6U11R11R8D10D7D9L9L2D5L1U13L14D\n让我把这个解输出给用户。\n但是，题目要求“如果有多条最短路径，请按块ID从小到大、方向(U,D,L,R)的顺序优先选择”。\n我的BFS代码中，邻居生成顺序是：\nfor block_id in sorted(blocks):\nfor direction in ['U', 'D', 'L', 'R']:\n这符合题目要求。\n所以找到的第一个解就是符合要求的。
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Hint: Please answer the question and provide the final answer at the end.\nQuestion: All vehicles in the garage can only drive forwards or backwards. The black car wants to leave the garage (see diagram). What is the minimum number of grey vehicles that need to move at least a little bit so that this is possible?\n
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<think>
The user wants me to solve a parking lot puzzle.
1. Analyze the image:
It’s a grid-based puzzle, likely 6x6.
There’s a black car that needs to exit to the right.
The exit is on the right side, in the third row from the top.
There are several grey vehicles blocking the way.
2. Identify the vehicles and their positions:\nLet’s use a coordinate system (row, column) from top-left (1,1) to bottom-right (6,6).
Black Car: Horizontal, located at (3, 2) and (3, 3). Wait, let’s look closer.
Row 1: A small grey car horizontal at (1, 2)-(1, 3).
Row 2: A long grey truck/bus vertical at (2, 1)-(4, 1). Wait, let’s re-examine.
Let’s just look at the grid. It looks like a 6x6 grid.
Exit: Row 3, exiting to the right.
Target: The black car is in Row 3. It’s a horizontal car. It occupies roughly columns 2 and 3. Wait, let me look really closely at the black car. It’s in the second row from the top? No.
Let’s count grid squares.
Top row: Small grey car (horizontal) at col 2-3.
Second row down:
Left edge: Vertical grey truck/bus. It spans rows 2, 3, 4 in column 1.
Middle: Vertical grey bus. It spans rows 2, 3, 4 in column 4.
Right edge: Vertical grey car. It spans rows 1, 2 in column 6. Wait, let’s look at the top right car. It’s vertical. It’s in column 6. It seems to span rows 1 and 2.
Third row down:
Black car: Horizontal. It’s in row 3. It spans columns 2 and 3. Wait, let’s look at the grid lines.
Let’s assume standard Rush Hour grid (6x6).
Row 1:
Col 2-3: Small grey car (horizontal).
Col 6: Small grey car (vertical), top part in row 1.
Row 2:
Col 1: Long grey truck (vertical). Top is in row 2.
Col 4: Long grey bus (vertical). Top is in row 2.
Col 6: Small grey car (vertical). Bottom part is in row 2.
Row 3:
Col 1: Long grey truck (vertical). Middle part.
Black car: Horizontal. It is in row 3. It occupies col 2 and 3.
Col 4: Long grey bus (vertical). Middle part.
Exit is to the right of row 3.
Row 4:
Col 1: Long grey truck (vertical). Bottom part.
Col 4: Long grey bus (vertical). Bottom part.
Row 5:
Col 1: Small grey car (vertical). Top part.
Col 5-6: Small grey car (horizontal).
Row 6:
Col 1: Small grey car (vertical). Bottom part.
Col 3-5: Long grey bus (horizontal).
Let’s refine the positions based on visual inspection.
Grid: 6x6.
Exit: Row 3, right side.
Black Car: Horizontal, Row 3, Cols 2-3. Wait, looking at the black car, it’s in the second row of “vehicle slots”? No, let’s count grid cells.
Top-left cell is empty? No, there’s a vertical truck on the left.
Vehicle 7 (Bottom Middle): Horizontal grey bus. Row 6, Cols 3-5. (Length 3). Wait, let’s look at the bottom bus. It spans cols 3, 4, 5, 6? No, looks like cols 3, 4, 5. Let’s assume length 3.
Vehicle 8 (Bottom Right-ish): Horizontal grey car. Row 5, Cols 5-6. Wait, looking at the car above the bottom bus. It’s in Row 5. It occupies Cols 5-6. No, looking at the grid, it’s in Row 5, Cols 5-6? Or Row 5, Cols 4-5?
Let’s re-evaluate the grid alignment.
The vertical bus in the middle is in Col 4.
The car to its right (bottom right area) is in Row 5. It looks like it’s in Cols 5-6. Wait, let’s look at the car above the bottom bus.
Let’s trace the grid lines carefully.
Row 1:
(1,1): Empty.
(1,2)-(1,3): Horizontal grey car.
(1,4): Empty.
(1,5): Empty.
(1,6): Top part of vertical car.
Row 2:
(2,1): Top part of vertical truck.
(2,2): Empty.
(2,3): Empty.
(2,4): Top part of vertical bus.
(2,5): Empty.
(2,6): Bottom part of vertical car.
Row 3:
(3,1): Middle part of vertical truck.
(3,2)-(3,3): Black Car.
(3,4): Middle part of vertical bus.
(3,5): Empty.
(3,6): Exit.
Row 4:
(4,1): Bottom part of vertical truck.
(4,2): Empty.
(4,3): Empty.
(4,4): Bottom part of vertical bus.
(4,5): Empty.
(4,6): Empty.
Row 5:
(5,1): Top part of vertical car (bottom left).
(5,2): Empty.
(5,3): Empty.
(5,4): Empty.
(5,5)-(5,6): Horizontal grey car. Wait, let’s look at the car in the bottom right area. It’s above the bottom bus. It looks like it’s in Row 5, Cols 5-6? No, looking at the grid lines, the vertical bus is in Col 4. To its right is Col 5. The car is in Row 5, Cols 5-6? No, it looks like it’s in Row 5, Cols 5-6. Wait, let’s look at the car at (5,5). It’s a small car.
Actually, let’s look at the car in the bottom right quadrant. It’s a horizontal car. It is in Row 5. It spans Cols 5 and 6? No, let’s look at the vertical bus in the middle (Col 4). To its right is Col 5. The car is in Row 5. It seems to span Cols 5 and 6. Wait, is there a car at (5,5)-(5,6)?
Let’s look at the car at the very top right. Vertical car at Col 6, Rows 1-2.
Let’s look at the car at the bottom left. Vertical car at Col 1, Rows 5-6.
Let’s look at the bus at the bottom. Horizontal. Row 6. Spans Cols 3, 4, 5. Wait, let’s count. 1, 2, 3 squares. Yes, length 3. So (6,3), (6,4), (6,5).
Let’s look at the car above the bottom bus. It’s in Row 5. It looks like it’s in Cols 5 and 6? No, let’s look at the grid.
The vertical bus is in Col 4.
The car to its right is in Row 5. It looks like it occupies (5,5) and (5,6)? No, looking at the right edge, the exit is at Row 3. The car below the exit area…
Let’s re-examine the whole grid structure.
Columns: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Rows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Left Column (Col 1):
(1,1): Empty.
(2,1), (3,1), (4,1): Vertical Truck (Length 3).
(5,1), (6,1): Vertical Car (Length 2).
Col 2:
(1,2), (1,3): Horizontal Car (Top). Wait, (1,2) and (1,3).
(2,2): Empty.
(3,2), (3,3): Black Car. Wait, if the top car is (1,2)-(1,3), then the black car is below it.
Wait, the black car is at (3,2)-(3,3).
So (2,2) is empty.
Col 3:
(1,3) is occupied by the top car.
(3,3) is occupied by the black car.
(6,3), (6,4), (6,5): Bottom Bus. Wait, let’s look at the bottom bus. It starts at Col 3? Yes.
Col 4:
(2,4), (3,4), (4,4): Vertical Bus (Length 3).
(6,4) is occupied by the bottom bus.
Col 5:
(5,5), (5,6): Horizontal Car? Let’s look at the car in the lower right.
It is in Row 5. It looks like it spans (5,5) and (5,6)? No, let’s look at the grid lines.
The vertical bus is in Col 4.
To its right is Col 5.
The car is in Row 5. It seems to be in (5,5) and (5,6)? No, looking at the right edge, there is a column 6.
Wait, let’s look at the top right car. It’s in Col 6.
So there is a Col 6.
The car in Row 5 seems to be in Cols 5 and 6? Or 4 and 5?
Let’s look at the car above the bottom bus. The bottom bus is in Row 6, Cols 3-5 (length 3).
So (6,3), (6,4), (6,5) are occupied.
The car above it is in Row 5. It looks like it’s in Cols 5 and 6? No, let’s look at the alignment.
The vertical bus is in Col 4.
The car to its right is in Row 5. It looks like it starts at Col 5. So (5,5) and (5,6). Wait, is it length 2? Yes, looks like a standard car.
But wait, look at the top right car. It’s vertical in Col 6, Rows 1-2.
So (5,6) and (6,6) would be empty?
Let’s re-examine the car in Row 5. It looks like it’s in Cols 5 and 6? No, looking closely at the image, the car in the lower right (horizontal) is in Row 5. It spans Cols 5 and 6? No, let’s look at the grid lines again.
Grid lines are faint.
Let’s assume standard Rush Hour layout.
Let’s count squares for the bottom bus. It has 5 windows. That usually means length 3 (bus/truck). It spans 3 grid units. It looks like it’s in Cols 3, 4, 5.
So (6,3), (6,4), (6,5) are occupied.
The car above it (Row 5) looks like it’s in Cols 5 and 6? No, that would overlap with the bus if the bus is at 3-5. No, row 5 is above row 6. So no overlap.
Is the car in Row 5 at Cols 5-6? Or 4-5?
Let’s look at the vertical bus in the middle (Col 4). It ends at Row 4. So (5,4) is empty.
The car in Row 5 starts to the right of the empty space (5,4). So it starts at (5,5). It looks like it ends at (5,6). So it’s a car at (5,5)-(5,6).
Wait, let’s look at the top right car again. Vertical. Col 6. Rows 1-2.
So (3,6) is the exit. (4,6) is empty. (5,6) is occupied by the horizontal car? If so, the horizontal car is at (5,5)-(5,6).
Let’s check the bottom left car. Vertical. Col 1. Rows 5-6.
So (5,1) and (6,1) are occupied.
3. Determine the path for the black car:
The black car is at (3,2)-(3,3).
It needs to move Right to exit at (3,6).
Path: (3,4), (3,5), (3,6).
Obstacles in the path:
(3,4) is occupied by the Vertical Bus (middle one). This bus occupies (2,4), (3,4), (4,4).
(3,5) is empty? Let’s check.
The vertical bus is in Col 4.
The exit is at the end of Row 3.
So the black car needs to clear (3,4) and (3,5).
Wait, is there a vehicle at (3,5)?
Looking at the grid, to the right of the middle vertical bus (Col 4) is Col 5.
In Row 3, Col 5 looks empty.
In Row 3, Col 6 is the exit.
So the main blocker is the Vertical Bus at Col 4, Rows 2-4.
4. Determine how to move the blockers:
Primary Blocker: The Vertical Bus at (2,4)-(4,4).
To let the black car pass, this bus must move.
It can move Up or Down.
Up: Blocked by… what’s above it?
(1,4) is empty.
So it can move Up into (1,4).
If it moves up 1 square, it occupies (1,4), (2,4), (3,4). Still blocks Row 3.
It needs to move up 2 squares to clear Row 3.
Can it move up 2 squares?
Target positions: (1,4), (2,4), (3,4)… wait.
Current: (2,4), (3,4), (4,4).
Move Up 1: (1,4), (2,4), (3,4). Still blocks (3,4).
Move Up 2: Not possible, grid ends at Row 1. Wait.
If it moves up, the bottom clears (4,4). The top is at (1,4).
Current top is (2,4). Move up 1 -> top at (1,4). Bottom at (3,4). Still blocks row 3.
So it cannot move Up enough to clear Row 3.
Wait, let’s re-evaluate the bus position.
Maybe it’s shorter? No, looks like a bus (3 units).
Maybe the grid is bigger? No, standard is 6x6.
Let’s look at the top of the bus. It’s in Row 2.
Let’s look at the bottom of the bus. It’s in Row 4.
So it occupies Rows 2, 3, 4.
To clear Row 3, it must move.
If it moves Up: Top goes to Row 1. Bottom goes to Row 3. Still blocks Row 3.
So it must move Down.
Down:
Current bottom is (4,4).
Below it is (5,4) and (6,4).
(5,4) looks empty.
(6,4) is occupied by the Bottom Horizontal Bus.
The Bottom Horizontal Bus is at Row 6, Cols 3-5 (approx).
So (6,4) is occupied.
Therefore, the Middle Vertical Bus cannot move Down because the Bottom Horizontal Bus is in the way.
Secondary Blocker: The Bottom Horizontal Bus (Row 6, Cols 3-5).
To let the Middle Vertical Bus move Down, this bus must move.
It can move Left or Right.
Right: Blocked by…
It’s at Cols 3-5.
To its right is Col 6.
Is (6,6) empty?
Let’s check the bottom right corner.
Above it is the horizontal car at (5,5)-(5,6)? Or (5,5) only?
Let’s assume the horizontal car in Row 5 is at (5,5)-(5,6).
Then (6,6) is empty.
So the Bottom Horizontal Bus can move Right by 1 square.
If it moves Right 1 square: Occupies (6,4), (6,5), (6,6).
Wait, it’s currently at (6,3)-(6,5).
If it moves Right, it goes to (6,4)-(6,6).
This doesn’t clear (6,4). It just shifts the block.
Wait, if it’s at (6,3)-(6,5), then (6,4) is occupied.
To clear (6,4), it must move Left.
Left:
Current left is (6,3).
To its left is (6,2) and (6,1).
(6,1) is occupied by the Bottom Left Vertical Car.
(6,2) is empty.
So it can move Left by 1 square.
If it moves Left 1 square: Occupies (6,2), (6,3), (6,4).
Still occupies (6,4).
Wait, let’s look at the length of the bottom bus again.
It has 5 windows. Usually length 3.
Let’s count grid squares.
Left wheel is at col 3 start. Right wheel is at col 5 end. So it spans 3, 4, 5.
So it occupies (6,3), (6,4), (6,5).
To clear (6,4), it needs to move.
If it moves Left: Needs to clear (6,4). So it must move to (6,1)-(6,3)?
(6,1) is occupied by the vertical car.
So it can move Left to (6,2)-(6,4). Still blocks (6,4).
Wait, the Middle Vertical Bus needs to move into (5,4) and (6,4)?
Current Middle Vertical Bus: (2,4), (3,4), (4,4).
To clear Row 3, it needs to move Down.
It needs to move at least 1 square down?
Move Down 1: (3,4), (4,4), (5,4). Still blocks (3,4).
Move Down 2: (4,4), (5,4), (6,4). Clears (3,4)!
So the Middle Vertical Bus needs to move Down 2 squares.
This requires (5,4) and (6,4) to be empty.
Currently:
(5,4) is empty.
(6,4) is occupied by the Bottom Horizontal Bus.
So the Bottom Horizontal Bus must move out of (6,4).
The Bottom Horizontal Bus is at (6,3)-(6,5).
It needs to move Left or Right to clear (6,4).
If it moves Left: To (6,1)-(6,3)?
(6,1) is occupied by the vertical car (Rows 5-6).
So it can’t move there.
Can it move to (6,2)-(6,4)? No, that still has (6,4).
Wait, if the bus is length 3, and occupies 3,4,5.
To clear 4, it must move to 1,2,3 or 2,3,4 (no) or … wait.
If it moves Left to (6,1)-(6,3), it clears (6,4) and (6,5).
But (6,1) is occupied.
So it cannot move Left enough to clear (6,4).
If it moves Right: To (6,4)-(6,6)?
Still occupies (6,4).
Wait, if it moves Right, it occupies 4, 5, 6. Still blocks 4.
So the Bottom Horizontal Bus is a problem.
Maybe my position analysis is wrong.
Let’s restart the position analysis carefully.\nGrid 6x6.\nVehicles:
Top Horizontal Car: Row 1, Cols 2-3. (Grey)
Left Vertical Truck: Col 1, Rows 2-4. (Grey, Length 3)
Bottom Left Vertical Car: Col 1, Rows 5-6. (Grey, Length 2)
Black Car: Row 3, Cols 2-3. (Black, Length 2) -> Wait, looking at the image, the black car is to the right of the left truck.
Left truck is Col 1.
Black car is in Cols 2-3.
Wait, is the black car length 2? Yes.
So it occupies (3,2) and (3,3).
Middle Vertical Bus: Col 4, Rows 2-4. (Grey, Length 3)
Top Right Vertical Car: Col 6, Rows 1-2. (Grey, Length 2)
Bottom Horizontal Bus: Row 6, Cols 3-5. (Grey, Length 3). Wait, let’s look at the wheels.
Left wheel at Col 3. Right wheel at Col 5.
So it spans Cols 3, 4, 5.
Wait, is it Cols 2-5? No, looks like 3 units.
Let’s assume Cols 3, 4, 5.
Lower Right Horizontal Car: Row 5, Cols 5-6?
Let’s look at the car above the bottom bus.
It’s in Row 5.
It’s to the right of the middle vertical bus (Col 4).
So it starts at Col 5.
It looks like a standard car (Length 2).
So it occupies (5,5) and (5,6).
Wait, if it’s at (5,6), and the Top Right Vertical Car is at (1,6)-(2,6).
Then (3,6) is exit. (4,6) is empty. (5,6) is occupied. (6,6) is empty.
Goal: Move Black Car (3,2)-(3,3) to Exit (3,6).\nPath: Needs (3,4), (3,5), (3,6) to be clear.\nCurrent Obstacles in Row 3:
(3,4) is occupied by Middle Vertical Bus.
(3,5) is empty.
(3,6) is exit.
Step 1: Clear (3,4).
Move Middle Vertical Bus (Col 4, Rows 2-4).
Must move Down to clear Row 3.
Needs to move Down at least 1 square?
Current: Rows 2, 3, 4.
Move Down 1: Rows 3, 4, 5. Still blocks Row 3.
Move Down 2: Rows 4, 5, 6. Clears Row 3!
So Middle Vertical Bus must move to Rows 4, 5, 6 in Col 4.
This requires (5,4) and (6,4) to be empty.
Check (5,4) and (6,4):
(5,4): Currently empty. (Middle bus moves into it).
(6,4): Currently occupied by Bottom Horizontal Bus (Row 6, Cols 3-5).
So Bottom Horizontal Bus must move.
Step 2: Clear (6,4) for the Middle Vertical Bus.
Move Bottom Horizontal Bus (Row 6, Cols 3-5).
Can it move Left?
Left of Col 3 is Col 2.
(6,2) is empty.
(6,1) is occupied by Bottom Left Vertical Car (Rows 5-6).
So Bus can move Left to Cols 2-4?
If it moves Left 1 square: Occupies (6,2), (6,3), (6,4). Still blocks (6,4).
If it moves Left 2 squares: Occupies (6,1), (6,2), (6,3).
But (6,1) is occupied.
So it cannot move Left enough to clear (6,4).
Can it move Right?
Right of Col 5 is Col 6.
(6,6) is empty.
So Bus can move Right 1 square.
New position: Cols 4, 5, 6.
This still occupies (6,4).
Wait, if it moves Right, it occupies 4, 5, 6.
The Middle Vertical Bus wants to move into (6,4).
So moving Right doesn’t help. It keeps (6,4) occupied.
Wait, if the bus is length 3.
Current: 3, 4, 5.
Move Right 1: 4, 5, 6. (6,4) is still occupied.
So the Bottom Horizontal Bus is completely blocking column 4 at the bottom?
Let’s re-examine the Bottom Horizontal Bus position.
Maybe it’s shorter? Length 2?
It has 5 windows. That’s long. Definitely length 3.
Maybe it’s further left?
Let’s look at the wheels.
Left wheel is under the grid line between Col 2 and 3? No, looks like it’s in Col 3.
Right wheel is in Col 5.
So it spans 3, 4, 5.
This seems correct.
Is there another way?
Maybe the Middle Vertical Bus doesn’t need to move all the way down?
To clear (3,4), the bus (Rows 2-4) must move.
If it moves Up:
Top is at Row 2. Row 1 is above it.
(1,4) is empty.
Move Up 1: Rows 1, 2, 3. Still blocks (3,4).
So it MUST move Down.
To move Down, it needs space in Rows 5 and 6 (since it’s length 3).
Wait, if it moves Down 1 square: Rows 3, 4, 5. Blocks (3,4).
If it moves Down 2 squares: Rows 4, 5, 6. Clears (3,4).
So it MUST occupy (6,4).
So (6,4) MUST be cleared.
The Bottom Horizontal Bus is at (6,3)-(6,5).
It MUST move.
If it moves Left:
Needs to clear (6,4).
So it must move to (6,1)-(6,3).
But (6,1) is occupied by the Bottom Left Vertical Car.
So the Bottom Left Vertical Car must move.
Step 3: Move Bottom Left Vertical Car (Col 1, Rows 5-6).
Can it move Up?
Above it is the Left Vertical Truck (Rows 2-4).
(4,1) is occupied by the truck.
So it cannot move Up.
Can it move Down?
It’s at the bottom edge (Row 6). Cannot move Down.
So the Bottom Left Vertical Car is stuck?
Wait, let’s look at the Left Vertical Truck again.
It’s at Col 1, Rows 2-4.
Can it move?
Up: (1,1) is empty. So it can move Up 1 square.
If Left Vertical Truck moves Up 1 square:
New position: Rows 1-3.
This clears (4,1).
Then Bottom Left Vertical Car (Rows 5-6) can move Up?
(4,1) is now empty.
So Bottom Left Vertical Car can move Up 1 square to Rows 4-5.
This clears (6,1).
Now (6,1) is empty.
Now Bottom Horizontal Bus (Cols 3-5) can move Left?
It needs to clear (6,4).
So it needs to move to Cols 1-3? Or 2-4?
If it moves to Cols 2-4: Still blocks (6,4).
If it moves to Cols 1-3: Clears (6,4).
Can it move to Cols 1-3?
Left is Col 1. (6,1) is now empty (because Bottom Left Vertical Car moved up).
So yes, it can move Left 2 squares.
Wait, can it move 2 squares?
Current: 3, 4, 5.
Move Left 1: 2, 3, 4. (Blocks 4).
Move Left 2: 1, 2, 3. (Clears 4).
Yes, if (6,1) and (6,2) are empty.
(6,1) is empty (car moved up).
(6,2) is empty.
So Bottom Horizontal Bus can move to (6,1)-(6,3).
Now (6,4) is empty.
Now Middle Vertical Bus (Cols 4, Rows 2-4) can move Down.
It needs to move Down 2 squares to Rows 4-6.
(5,4) is empty.
(6,4) is empty.
So it can move Down 2 squares.
Now (3,4) is empty.
Now Black Car can exit!
Let’s count the grey vehicles moved:
Left Vertical Truck (Col 1, Rows 2-4). Move Up 1.
Is this necessary?
To move Bottom Left Vertical Car Up, we need space at (4,1).
Currently (4,1) is occupied by Left Vertical Truck.
So yes, Left Vertical Truck must move.
Bottom Left Vertical Car (Col 1, Rows 5-6). Move Up 1 (or 2?).
To clear (6,1) for the Bottom Horizontal Bus.
Bottom Horizontal Bus needs to move to (6,1)-(6,3) to clear (6,4).
So (6,1) must be empty.
So Bottom Left Vertical Car must move Up at least 1 square.
Can it move Up? Only if (4,1) is clear.
So Left Vertical Truck moves Up -> clears (4,1).
Bottom Left Vertical Car moves Up -> clears (6,1).
Bottom Horizontal Bus (Row 6, Cols 3-5). Move Left 2 squares.
To clear (6,4).
Wait, does it need to move 2 squares?
Current: 3, 4, 5.
Target: Clear (6,4).
If it moves Left 1: 2, 3, 4. (6,4) still occupied.
If it moves Left 2: 1, 2, 3. (6,4) clear.
So yes, it must move.
Middle Vertical Bus (Col 4, Rows 2-4). Move Down 2 squares.
To clear (3,4).
This is the direct blocker.
So yes, it must move.
Are there other vehicles?
Top Horizontal Car (Row 1, Cols 2-3).
Does it need to move?
Left Vertical Truck moves Up to Row 1.
Left Vertical Truck is in Col 1.
Top Horizontal Car is in Cols 2-3.
So no collision.
Top Right Vertical Car (Col 6, Rows 1-2).
Does it need to move?
Black car exits through (3,6).
Path is clear once (3,4) is clear. (3,5) is already clear.
So no need to move this car.
Lower Right Horizontal Car (Row 5, Cols 5-6).
Does it need to move?
Middle Vertical Bus moves Down to Rows 4-6.
So it occupies (4,4), (5,4), (6,4).
Lower Right Horizontal Car is at (5,5)-(5,6).
No collision.
Wait, let’s check the position of Lower Right Horizontal Car again.
Is it at (5,5)-(5,6)?
If Middle Vertical Bus moves to (5,4), it’s next to (5,5). No problem.
So this car doesn’t need to move.
So the sequence of moves involves:
Left Vertical Truck (Grey) -> Move Up.
Bottom Left Vertical Car (Grey) -> Move Up.
Bottom Horizontal Bus (Grey) -> Move Left.
Middle Vertical Bus (Grey) -> Move Down.
That’s 4 grey vehicles.
Can we optimize?
Is there a way to clear (6,4) without moving the Bottom Left Vertical Car?
Bottom Horizontal Bus is at (6,3)-(6,5).
To clear (6,4), it must move Left to (6,1)-(6,3) or Right to (6,4)-(6,6) [Impossible, still blocks] or Right to (6,5)-(6,7) [Impossible].
Wait, if it moves Right…
Current: 3, 4, 5.
Move Right 1: 4, 5, 6. (6,4) occupied.
Move Right 2: 5, 6, 7. (Off grid).
So it MUST move Left.
To clear (6,4), it must move Left at least 2 squares (to 1,2,3).
This requires (6,1) and (6,2) to be empty.
(6,2) is empty.
(6,1) is occupied by Bottom Left Vertical Car.
So Bottom Left Vertical Car MUST move.
To move Bottom Left Vertical Car (Rows 5-6):
Must move Up (can’t move Down).
Requires (4,1) to be empty.
(4,1) is occupied by Left Vertical Truck.
So Left Vertical Truck MUST move.
To move Left Vertical Truck (Rows 2-4):
Must move Up (can’t move Down, blocked by car below? No, car below is at 5-6. So space at 4 is occupied by truck itself. Space at 5 is car. So truck can’t move down).
Wait, Truck is Rows 2-4. Car is Rows 5-6.
So there is a gap? No, (4,1) is truck bottom. (5,1) is car top. They are adjacent.
So Truck cannot move Down.
Must move Up.
(1,1) is empty.
So Truck moves Up 1 square to Rows 1-3.
This clears (4,1).
So the chain is:
Move Left Vertical Truck Up. (Grey vehicle 1)
Move Bottom Left Vertical Car Up. (Grey vehicle 2)
Move Bottom Horizontal Bus Left. (Grey vehicle 3)
Move Middle Vertical Bus Down. (Grey vehicle 4)
Move Black Car Right. (Target)
Wait, let me double check the “Minimum number” part.
Do all these vehicles need to move?
“Minimum number of grey vehicles that need to move at least a little bit”.
My sequence involves 4 vehicles.
Is there a shorter path?
Maybe the Middle Vertical Bus doesn’t need to move all the way down?
It blocks (3,4).
It occupies (2,4), (3,4), (4,4).
To clear (3,4), it must move Up or Down.
Up: Needs (1,4).
Move Up 1: (1,4), (2,4), (3,4). Still blocks (3,4).
So Up is impossible.
Down: Needs (5,4), (6,4).
Move Down 1: (3,4), (4,4), (5,4). Still blocks (3,4).
Move Down 2: (4,4), (5,4), (6,4). Clears (3,4).
So it MUST move Down 2 squares.
This requires (5,4) and (6,4) to be empty.
(5,4) is empty.
(6,4) is occupied by Bottom Horizontal Bus.
So Bottom Horizontal Bus MUST move.
Bottom Horizontal Bus is at (6,3)-(6,5).
To clear (6,4), it must move Left to (6,1)-(6,3) or Right… wait.
If it moves Right to (6,4)-(6,6), (6,4) is still occupied.
So it MUST move Left.
To clear (6,4), it must move Left at least 2 units (to 1-3).
This requires (6,1) to be empty.
(6,1) is occupied by Bottom Left Vertical Car.
So Bottom Left Vertical Car MUST move.
Bottom Left Vertical Car is at (5,1)-(6,1).
To move, it must go Up (blocked by Left Vertical Truck at (4,1)) or Down (blocked by edge).
So Left Vertical Truck MUST move Up to clear (4,1).
Left Vertical Truck is at (2,1)-(4,1).
Move Up 1 to (1,1)-(3,1).
(1,1) is empty.
So this is possible.
So it seems 4 vehicles must move.
Left Vertical Truck (Col 1, Rows 2-4) -> Moves Up.
Bottom Left Vertical Car (Col 1, Rows 5-6) -> Moves Up.
Bottom Horizontal Bus (Row 6, Cols 3-5) -> Moves Left.
Middle Vertical Bus (Col 4, Rows 2-4) -> Moves Down.
Let’s check the other vehicles again.
Top Horizontal Car (Row 1, Cols 2-3).
Left Vertical Truck moves to (1,1)-(3,1).
Top Horizontal Car is at (1,2)-(1,3).
(1,1) is next to (1,2). No collision.
Top Right Vertical Car (Col 6, Rows 1-2).
Not in the way.
Lower Right Horizontal Car (Row 5, Cols 5-6).
Middle Vertical Bus moves to (4,4)-(6,4).
Lower Right Car is at (5,5)-(5,6).
(5,4) is next to (5,5). No collision.
So the count is 4.
Wait, let me look really closely at the Bottom Horizontal Bus.
Is it possible that it’s shorter?
It has windows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. That’s 5 windows.
The Middle Vertical Bus has windows: 1, 2, 3, 4. That’s 4 windows. Wait.
Let’s count windows on Middle Vertical Bus.
Top to bottom: 1, 2, 3, 4 squares?
Let’s count grid squares.
Top is at Row 2 line. Bottom is at Row 5 line?
Let’s look at the grid lines again.
Row 1: Top car.
Row 2: Top of Left Truck, Top of Middle Bus.
Row 3: Black Car, Middle of Left Truck, Middle of Middle Bus.
Row 4: Bottom of Left Truck, Bottom of Middle Bus.
So Left Truck and Middle Bus are Length 3. (Rows 2, 3, 4).
This matches my previous analysis.
Bottom Horizontal Bus:
It’s in Row 6.
Left wheel at Col 3. Right wheel at Col 5.
Wait, let’s count windows. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
If it has 5 windows, maybe it’s Length 5? No, grid is 6x6.
Maybe it’s Length 4?
Let’s look at the wheels.
Left wheel is in Col 3.
Right wheel is in Col 5.
So it spans Cols 3, 4, 5. Length 3.
Why 5 windows? Maybe small windows.
Let’s assume Length 3.
If it’s Length 4 (Cols 2-5)?
Left wheel would be in Col 2.
Looking at the image, the left wheel is aligned with the vertical line between Col 2 and 3? No, it’s inside Col 3.
So it starts at Col 3.
Right wheel is inside Col 5.
So it ends at Col 5.
So Length 3. (3, 4, 5).
Let’s check the Bottom Left Vertical Car.
Top wheel in Row 5. Bottom wheel in Row 6.
So Length 2. (Rows 5, 6).
This matches.
Let’s check the Left Vertical Truck.
Top wheel in Row 2. Bottom wheel in Row 4.
So Length 3. (Rows 2, 3, 4).
This matches.
Let’s check the Middle Vertical Bus.
Top wheel in Row 2. Bottom wheel in Row 4.
So Length 3. (Rows 2, 3, 4).
This matches.
Let’s check the Lower Right Horizontal Car.
It’s in Row 5.
Left wheel in Col 5. Right wheel in Col 6.
So Length 2. (Cols 5, 6).
Wait, looking at the image…
The car is to the right of the Middle Vertical Bus (Col 4).
So it starts at Col 5.
It ends at the right edge?
The right edge is Col 6.
So it’s at (5,5)-(5,6).
This matches.
Let’s check the Top Right Vertical Car.
Top wheel in Row 1. Bottom wheel in Row 2.
So Length 2. (Rows 1, 2).
This matches.
Let’s check the Top Horizontal Car.
Left wheel in Col 2. Right wheel in Col 3.
So Length 2. (Cols 2, 3).
This matches.
So the analysis holds.\nNumber of grey vehicles to move: 4.
Is there any alternative?
What if the Middle Vertical Bus moves Up?
It’s at Rows 2-4.
To clear Row 3, it must move Up so that its bottom is above Row 3.
Bottom is at Row 4.
Move Up 1: Bottom at Row 3. Still blocks.
Move Up 2: Bottom at Row 2. Top at Row 0 (off grid). Impossible.
So Middle Vertical Bus MUST move Down.
What if the Bottom Horizontal Bus moves Right?
It’s at Cols 3-5.
Move Right 1: Cols 4-6.
(6,4) is still occupied.
So Middle Vertical Bus cannot move into (6,4).
So Bottom Horizontal Bus MUST move Left.
What if Bottom Horizontal Bus moves Left 1 square?
New pos: Cols 2-4.
(6,4) is still occupied.
So it must move Left 2 squares.
New pos: Cols 1-3.
This requires (6,1) to be empty.
What if Bottom Left Vertical Car moves Up 1 square?
New pos: Rows 4-5.
This requires (4,1) to be empty.
(4,1) is occupied by Left Vertical Truck.
So Left Vertical Truck must move.
What if Left Vertical Truck moves Up 1 square?
New pos: Rows 1-3.
(1,1) is empty.
This works.
So the chain is unbreakable.
Left Vertical Truck (Grey)
Bottom Left Vertical Car (Grey)
Bottom Horizontal Bus (Grey)
Middle Vertical Bus (Grey)
Total: 4.
Wait, let’s look at the “Lower Right Horizontal Car” again.
Is it possible that the Middle Vertical Bus moves down, and pushes into (5,4), and the Lower Right Car is at (5,5)-(5,6).
Yes, that’s fine.
But the Middle Vertical Bus needs to go to Row 6 to clear Row 3.
So it occupies (4,4), (5,4), (6,4).
This is fine with Lower Right Car at (5,5).
Is it possible that I misidentified a vehicle?
“All vehicles in the garage can only drive forwards or backwards.”
“The black car wants to leave the garage.”
“What is the minimum number of grey vehicles that need to move at least a little bit so that this is possible?”
Let’s double check the grid again. Maybe I missed a gap.
Look at (5,4). Is it empty?
Middle Vertical Bus is at (2,4)-(4,4).
Bottom Horizontal Bus is at (6,3)-(6,5).
Lower Right Car is at (5,5)-(5,6).
So (5,4) is indeed empty.
Look at (3,5). Is it empty?
Middle Vertical Bus is at Col 4.
Lower Right Car is at Row 5.
Top Right Car is at Col 6.
So (3,5) is empty.
Wait, is there a car at (3,5)?
Looking at the grid, to the right of the Middle Vertical Bus (Col 4) is Col 5.
In Row 3, Col 5 looks empty.
So the path for the black car is (3,4) -> (3,5) -> (3,6).
Only (3,4) is blocked.
So the logic holds.\nBlocker: Middle Vertical Bus.\nTo move it Down: Need (6,4) clear.\nBlocker for (6,4): Bottom Horizontal Bus.\nTo move it Left: Need (6,1) clear.\nBlocker for (6,1): Bottom Left Vertical Car.\nTo move it Up: Need (4,1) clear.\nBlocker for (4,1): Left Vertical Truck.\nTo move it Up: Need (1,1) clear. (It is clear).
So the chain is:
Move Left Vertical Truck Up. (Grey vehicle 1)
Move Bottom Left Vertical Car Up. (Grey vehicle 2)
Move Bottom Horizontal Bus Left. (Grey vehicle 3)
Move Middle Vertical Bus Down. (Grey vehicle 4)
Move Black Car Right.
Are there any other dependencies?
When Left Vertical Truck moves Up to (1,1)-(3,1)…
Does it block anything?
Top Horizontal Car is at (1,2)-(1,3).
(1,1) is adjacent to (1,2). No block.
When Bottom Left Vertical Car moves Up to (4,1)-(5,1)…
(4,1) was occupied by Left Vertical Truck. Now empty.
(5,1) was occupied by Bottom Left Vertical Car. Now empty? No, it moves into (4,1)-(5,1).
Wait, if it moves Up 1 square:
Old: (5,1)-(6,1).
New: (4,1)-(5,1).
This clears (6,1).
This works.
So 4 vehicles.
Let me just pause and think if I can move the Bottom Horizontal Bus Right.
If Bottom Horizontal Bus moves Right…
It’s at (6,3)-(6,5).
Move Right 1: (6,4)-(6,6).
(6,4) is still occupied.
So Middle Vertical Bus cannot move down into (6,4).
So this path is dead.
What if Middle Vertical Bus moves Up?
It’s at (2,4)-(4,4).
Move Up 1: (1,4)-(3,4).
(3,4) is still occupied.
So this path is dead.
So Middle Vertical Bus MUST move Down 2 squares.\nThis requires (5,4) and (6,4) empty.\n(5,4) is empty.\n(6,4) is occupied by Bottom Horizontal Bus.\nSo Bottom Horizontal Bus MUST move.\nTo clear (6,4), it must move Left (since moving Right keeps (6,4) occupied).\nTo move Left enough (2 squares to clear col 4), it needs (6,1) and (6,2) empty.\n(6,2) is empty.\n(6,1) is occupied by Bottom Left Vertical Car.\nSo Bottom Left Vertical Car MUST move.\nTo move, it must go Up (blocked by edge at bottom).\nTo go Up, it needs (4,1) empty.\n(4,1) is occupied by Left Vertical Truck.\nSo Left Vertical Truck MUST move.\nTo move, it must go Up (blocked by car below at 5-6… wait).
Left Vertical Truck is at (2,1)-(4,1).
Bottom Left Vertical Car is at (5,1)-(6,1).
So Truck cannot move Down.
Truck must move Up.
(1,1) is empty.
So Truck moves Up 1 square to (1,1)-(3,1).
This clears (4,1).
So yes, 4 vehicles.
Let’s double check the question. “Minimum number of grey vehicles”.\nThe black car is not grey.\nThe vehicles are:
Top Horizontal (Grey)
Left Vertical Truck (Grey)
Bottom Left Vertical Car (Grey)
Middle Vertical Bus (Grey)
Top Right Vertical Car (Grey)
Bottom Horizontal Bus (Grey)
Lower Right Horizontal Car (Grey)
My solution moves:
Left Vertical Truck
Bottom Left Vertical Car
Bottom Horizontal Bus
Middle Vertical Bus
Are any of these not grey?
Left Vertical Truck: Grey.
Bottom Left Vertical Car: Grey.
Bottom Horizontal Bus: Grey.
Middle Vertical Bus: Grey.\nAll are grey.
Is it possible that the Top Horizontal Car needs to move?
Left Vertical Truck moves to (1,1)-(3,1).
Top Horizontal Car is at (1,2)-(1,3).
They are adjacent. No collision.
So Top Horizontal Car does not need to move.
Is it possible that the Lower Right Horizontal Car needs to move?
Middle Vertical Bus moves to (4,4)-(6,4).
Lower Right Horizontal Car is at (5,5)-(5,6).
They are adjacent. No collision.
So Lower Right Horizontal Car does not need to move.
Is it possible that the Top Right Vertical Car needs to move?
Black car exits at (3,6).
Top Right Vertical Car is at (1,6)-(2,6).
No collision.
So Top Right Vertical Car does not need to move.
So the answer is 4.
Let me just re-read the grid to ensure I haven’t missed a “sneaky” move.\nWhat if the Bottom Horizontal Bus is actually shorter?
If it’s length 2, at (6,4)-(6,5).
Then (6,3) is empty.
Then to clear (6,4), it must move Right to (6,5)-(6,6).
Then (6,4) is clear.
Then Middle Vertical Bus can move Down.
In this case, only 1 vehicle (Bottom Horizontal Bus) needs to move?
But looking at the image, it has 5 windows and spans 3 grid columns (3, 4, 5).
The wheels are at the ends. Left wheel in col 3, right wheel in col 5.
So it’s definitely length 3.
What if the Bottom Left Vertical Car is shorter?
Length 1? No, cars are length 2 or 3.
It has 2 windows? No, looks like a car. Length 2.
Wheels at Row 5 and Row 6.
So it’s length 2.
What if the Left Vertical Truck is shorter?
Length 2?
Wheels at Row 2 and Row 4? No, that would be length 3.
Wheels at Row 2 and Row 3?
Let’s count windows. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Wait, the Left Vertical Truck has 4 windows.
The Middle Vertical Bus has 4 windows.
The Bottom Horizontal Bus has 5 windows.
This suggests lengths.
Usually in Rush Hour:
Car = Length 2.
Truck/Bus = Length 3.
Left Vertical Truck: 4 windows? Maybe it’s length 3.
If it’s length 3, it occupies 3 cells.
Windows are just decorative.
Let’s assume standard Rush Hour rules.
Left Vertical object: Looks like a truck. Length 3.
Middle Vertical object: Looks like a bus. Length 3.
Bottom Horizontal object: Looks like a limo/bus. Length 3.
Is it possible that the Left Vertical Truck is actually Length 2?
If it’s Length 2, where is it?
Top at Row 2. Bottom at Row 3.
Then (4,1) is empty.
Then Bottom Left Vertical Car (Rows 5-6) can move Up to (4,1)-(5,1)?
Wait, if Truck is at (2,1)-(3,1).
Then (4,1) is empty.
Bottom Left Car is at (5,1)-(6,1).
Move Up 1: (4,1)-(5,1).
Clears (6,1).
Then Bottom Horizontal Bus can move Left to (6,1)-(6,3).
Clears (6,4).
Then Middle Vertical Bus moves Down.
In this case, vehicles moved:
Bottom Left Vertical Car.
Bottom Horizontal Bus.
Middle Vertical Bus.
Left Vertical Truck didn’t need to move!
So the answer would be 3.
Let’s look really closely at the Left Vertical Truck.
Top wheel is in Row 2.
Bottom wheel is in Row 4.
So it spans Rows 2, 3, 4.
It has 4 rectangular windows.
If it spans 3 rows, it’s Length 3.
So my initial analysis was correct. It blocks (4,1).
Let’s look at the Bottom Left Vertical Car.
Top wheel in Row 5.
Bottom wheel in Row 6.
So it spans Rows 5, 6.
It’s Length 2.
So it blocks (6,1).
So the chain stands.\nTruck (2-4) blocks Car (5-6) from moving up?
Truck bottom is at Row 4.
Car top is at Row 5.
They are adjacent.
So Car cannot move Up unless Truck moves Up.
Truck can move Up to (1,1)-(3,1).
This clears (4,1).
Then Car moves Up to (4,1)-(5,1).
This clears (6,1).
Then Bus (3-5) moves Left to (1-3).
This clears (6,4). (Wait, Bus is at Row 6).
Bus moves Left to (6,1)-(6,3).
This clears (6,4).
Then Middle Vertical Bus (2-4) moves Down to (4-6).
This clears (3,4).
Black car exits.
So 4 vehicles.
Is there any other path?
What about the Top Horizontal Car?
It’s at (1,2)-(1,3).
Does it block anything?
No.
What about Top Right Vertical Car?
At (1,6)-(2,6).
Does it block anything?
No.
What about Lower Right Horizontal Car?
At (5,5)-(5,6).
Does it block anything?
Middle Vertical Bus moves to (4,4)-(6,4).
(5,4) is next to (5,5). No block.
So it seems robustly 4.
Let me think if “move at least a little bit” implies something.
Yes, even 1 square counts.
My moves:
Truck: Up 1 square.
Car (bottom left): Up 1 square.
Bus (bottom): Left 2 squares.
Bus (middle): Down 2 squares.
All move “at least a little bit”.
Is it possible that the Bottom Horizontal Bus is Length 2?
If it’s Length 2, at (6,4)-(6,5).
Then (6,3) is empty.
Then to clear (6,4), it must move Right to (6,5)-(6,6).
Then (6,4) is clear.
Then Middle Vertical Bus moves Down.
Vehicles moved:
Bottom Horizontal Bus.
Middle Vertical Bus.
Answer: 2.
But looking at the image, it’s clearly longer than the cars.
The cars (top, black, bottom left, top right, lower right) are all the same size (Length 2).
The vertical truck (left), vertical bus (middle), horizontal bus (bottom) are longer.
Left vertical truck: 3 units.
Middle vertical bus: 3 units.
Bottom horizontal bus: 3 units.
So my length analysis is correct.
Is it possible that the Middle Vertical Bus is Length 2?
If it’s Length 2, at (2,4)-(3,4).
Then to clear (3,4), it must move Up or Down.
Move Up: (1,4)-(2,4). Clears (3,4).
(1,4) is empty.
So it can move Up.
Vehicles moved: 1 (Middle Vertical Bus).
Move Down: (3,4)-(4,4). Still blocks.
Move Down 2: (4,4)-(5,4). Clears (3,4).
Requires (5,4) empty (yes) and (4,4) empty (yes, if it moves).
Wait, if it’s length 2 at (2,4)-(3,4).
Move Down 1: (3,4)-(4,4). Blocks.
Move Down 2: (4,4)-(5,4). Clears.
This requires (5,4) empty. Yes.
So if it’s Length 2, it can move Up 1 square to clear the path.
Or move Down 2 squares.
But looking at the image, it has 4 windows.
The cars have 2 windows (side view) or just a shape.
The black car has a shape.
The middle bus has 4 distinct rectangular windows.
The left truck has 4 distinct rectangular windows.
The bottom bus has 5 distinct rectangular windows.
This strongly suggests Length 3 (or 4 for the bottom one?).
If Bottom Bus is Length 4 (Cols 2-5)?
Left wheel at Col 2?
Looking at the grid line…
Col 1 has the vertical car.
Col 2 is empty in Row 6.
The bottom bus starts at Col 3.
So it’s Length 3.
So, assuming standard Rush Hour vehicle sizes (2 and 3):
Left Vertical: 3.
Middle Vertical: 3.
Bottom Horizontal: 3.
Others: 2.
So the answer 4 seems correct.
Let’s double check if I can move the Middle Vertical Bus Up.
It is at Rows 2, 3, 4.
To clear Row 3, it must move Up so bottom > 3.
Bottom is 4.
Move Up 1 -> Bottom 3. Still blocks.
Move Up 2 -> Bottom 2. Top 0. Impossible.
So it MUST move Down.
Let’s double check if I can move the Bottom Horizontal Bus Right.
It is at Cols 3, 4, 5.
To clear Col 4, it must move Right so left > 4.
Left is 3.
Move Right 1 -> Left 4. Still blocks.
Move Right 2 -> Left 5.
New pos: Cols 5, 6, 7.
Col 7 is off grid.
So impossible.
So it MUST move Left.
Let’s double check if I can move the Bottom Left Vertical Car Down.
It is at Rows 5, 6.
Row 6 is bottom edge.
Impossible.
So it MUST move Up.
Let’s double check if I can move the Left Vertical Truck Down.
It is at Rows 2, 3, 4.
Below is Bottom Left Vertical Car at Rows 5, 6.
They are adjacent (4 and 5).
So impossible.
So it MUST move Up.
So the chain is strictly forced.
Left Vertical Truck (Up)
Bottom Left Vertical Car (Up)
Bottom Horizontal Bus (Left)
Middle Vertical Bus (Down)
Wait, check the Bottom Horizontal Bus move again.
It needs to clear (6,4).
It is at (6,3)-(6,5).
Move Left 1 -> (6,2)-(6,4). (6,4) still occupied.
Move Left 2 -> (6,1)-(6,3). (6,4) clear.
So it must move Left 2 squares.
This requires (6,1) and (6,2) to be empty.
(6,2) is empty.
(6,1) is occupied by Bottom Left Vertical Car.
So Bottom Left Vertical Car must move.
It moves Up 1 square to (4,1)-(5,1).
This requires (4,1) to be empty.
(4,1) is occupied by Left Vertical Truck.
So Left Vertical Truck must move.
It moves Up 1 square to (1,1)-(3,1).
This requires (1,1) to be empty.
(1,1) is empty.
So yes, 4 vehicles.
Is it possible that the “Lower Right Horizontal Car” is actually blocking the Middle Vertical Bus?
Middle Vertical Bus moves to (4,4)-(6,4).
Lower Right Car is at (5,5)-(5,6).
(5,4) is part of the bus. (5,5) is part of the car.
They are adjacent. No block.
Is it possible that the “Top Right Vertical Car” is blocking the exit?
Exit is Row 3.
Top Right Car is Rows 1-2.
No block.
So the answer is definitely 4.
Let’s write down the final argument.
Identify the goal: Move Black Car (Row 3) to the right exit.
Identify immediate obstacle: The vertical grey bus in Column 4 (Rows 2-4) blocks the path at (3,4).
Determine how to move the obstacle: The bus must move down to clear Row 3. Moving up is not enough (would still block Row 3). Moving down requires space in Rows 5 and 6 of Column 4.
Identify secondary obstacle: The horizontal grey bus in Row 6 (Cols 3-5) occupies (6,4), blocking the vertical bus from moving down.
Determine how to move the secondary obstacle: It must move left to clear (6,4). Moving right keeps (6,4) occupied. Moving left requires space in Cols 1 and 2 of Row 6.
Identify tertiary obstacle: The vertical grey car in Column 1 (Rows 5-6) occupies (6,1), blocking the horizontal bus from moving left enough.
Determine how to move the tertiary obstacle: It must move up to clear (6,1). Moving down is impossible (edge). Moving up requires space in Row 4 of Column 1.
Identify quaternary obstacle: The vertical grey truck in Column 1 (Rows 2-4) occupies (4,1), blocking the vertical car from moving up.
Determine how to move the quaternary obstacle: It must move up. Space is available at (1,1).
Count the vehicles:
Vertical Truck (Col 1) - Moves Up.
Vertical Car (Col 1, bottom) - Moves Up.
Horizontal Bus (Row 6) - Moves Left.
Vertical Bus (Col 4) - Moves Down.
Total: 4 grey vehicles.
One final check. Is the “Vertical Truck” actually two vehicles?
No, it’s a single long vehicle.
Is the “Bottom Left Vertical Car” actually part of the truck?
No, there is a grid line between Row 4 and 5.
The truck ends at Row 4. The car starts at Row 5.
So they are separate.
Is the “Bottom Horizontal Bus” actually two vehicles?
No, looks like one long vehicle.
Is the “Middle Vertical Bus” actually two vehicles?
No, looks like one long vehicle.
So the count remains 4.
The question asks for the “minimum number of grey vehicles”.\nMy sequence moves 4 grey vehicles.\nIs it possible to do it with fewer?
We established that Middle Vertical Bus MUST move. (1)
To move it, Bottom Horizontal Bus MUST move. (2)
To move Bottom Horizontal Bus left enough, Bottom Left Vertical Car MUST move. (3)
To move Bottom Left Vertical Car up, Left Vertical Truck MUST move. (4)
Are there any alternatives?
Could Bottom Horizontal Bus move Right? No, doesn’t clear (6,4).
Could Middle Vertical Bus move Up? No, doesn’t clear (3,4).
Could Bottom Left Vertical Car move Down? No, edge.
Could Left Vertical Truck move Down? No, blocked by car.
So the chain is necessary.\nAnswer is 4.
Wait, looking at the Top Right Vertical Car.\nIt is in Col 6, Rows 1-2.\nThe exit is Row 3.\nSo it’s not blocking.
Looking at the Top Horizontal Car.\nRow 1, Cols 2-3.\nNot blocking.
Looking at the Lower Right Horizontal Car.\nRow 5, Cols 5-6.\nNot blocking.
So only the 4 vehicles in the chain need to move.
Final Answer seems to be 4.
One tiny detail: “move at least a little bit”.\nMy moves:
Truck: Up 1 unit.
Car (bottom left): Up 1 unit.
Bus (bottom): Left 2 units.
Bus (middle): Down 2 units.\nAll move > 0.
So 4 vehicles.
Let’s double check the grid coordinates one last time.\nMaybe the Left Vertical Truck is only Rows 2-3?
If it’s Rows 2-3 (Length 2).
Then (4,1) is empty.
Then Bottom Left Vertical Car (Rows 5-6) can move Up to (4,1)-(5,1).
Then (6,1) is clear.
Then Bottom Horizontal Bus (3-5) can move Left to (1-3).
Then (6,4) is clear.
Then Middle Vertical Bus (2-4) can move Down to (4-6).
Then (3,4) is clear.
In this case, Left Vertical Truck does NOT need to move.
So answer would be 3.
How to determine the length of the Left Vertical Truck?
Look at the windows. 1, 2, 3, 4 windows.
Look at the wheels. Top wheel in Row 2. Bottom wheel in Row 4.
This implies it spans Rows 2, 3, 4. Length 3.
Look at the Middle Vertical Bus. 1, 2, 3, 4 windows. Top wheel Row 2. Bottom wheel Row 4. Length 3.
Look at the Bottom Horizontal Bus. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 windows. Left wheel Col 3. Right wheel Col 5. Length 3.
Look at the cars. 2 windows/side. Length 2.
So the “Trucks/Buses” are Length 3.
So Left Vertical Truck is Length 3.
So it occupies (2,1), (3,1), (4,1).
So it blocks (4,1).
So my initial analysis holds. Answer is 4.
Just to be absolutely sure, look at the gap between Left Vertical Truck and Bottom Left Vertical Car.
Truck bottom is at Row 4 line.
Car top is at Row 5 line.
They are touching.
So Truck is Rows 2-4. Car is Rows 5-6.
Correct.
Look at the gap between Middle Vertical Bus and Bottom Horizontal Bus.
Bus bottom is at Row 4 line.
Bottom Bus top is at Row 6 line.
Wait.
Middle Vertical Bus is Rows 2-4.
Bottom Horizontal Bus is Row 6.
So Row 5 is empty in Col 4.
This matches my analysis. (5,4) is empty.
So Middle Vertical Bus needs to move into (5,4) and (6,4).
So it needs to move 2 squares down.
This requires (6,4) to be empty.
Correct.
So everything is consistent.\nAnswer: 4.
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The black car is in the third row and needs to exit to the right.
Direct Obstacle: The vertical grey bus in the fourth column (let’s call it the “middle bus”) is blocking the black car’s path. It occupies rows 2, 3, and 4 of column 4. To let the black car pass, this bus must move.
Moving the Middle Bus: It cannot move up enough to clear row 3 (moving up 1 square would still leave it in row 3). So, it must move down. To move down 2 squares (clearing row 3), it needs the spaces in row 5 and row 6 of column 4 to be empty. Row 5, column 4 is empty. Row 6, column 4 is occupied by the long horizontal grey bus at the bottom.
Moving the Bottom Bus: The bottom horizontal bus occupies columns 3, 4, and 5 in row 6. To clear column 4, it must move. Moving right won’t help (it would still occupy column 4 or go off-grid). It must move left. To clear column 4, it needs to move left by 2 squares, into columns 1, 2, and 3.
Moving the Bottom-Left Car: The space in row 6, column 1 is occupied by a vertical grey car. So, the bottom horizontal bus cannot move into that spot yet. This vertical car (occupying rows 5 and 6 of column 1) must move. It can only move up.
Moving the Left Truck: To move the bottom-left vertical car up, the space in row 4, column 1 must be empty. However, it is occupied by the long vertical grey truck on the left (occupying rows 2, 3, and 4 of column 1). So, this truck must move up. There is space in row 1, column 1, so it can move up 1 square.
In the diagram, $A B=21$ and $B C=16$. Also, $\\angle A B C=60^{\\circ}, \\angle C A D=30^{\\circ}$, and $\\angle A C D=45^{\\circ}$. Determine the length of $C D$.\n
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We are given a quadrilateral $ABCD$ with the following:
$AB = 21$
$BC = 16$
$\\angle ABC = 60^\\circ$
$\\angle CAD = 30^\\circ$
$\\angle ACD = 45^\\circ$
We are to find the length of $CD$.
Step 1: Use Law of Cosines in triangle $ABC$ to find $AC$#
In triangle $ABC$, we know two sides and the included angle:
$$\nAC^2 = AB^2 + BC^2 - 2 \\cdot AB \\cdot BC \\cdot \\cos(\\angle ABC)\n$$
Starting from the red arrow in the upper left corner of the image and ending at the red arrow in the lower right corner, how many letters B will be passed on the shortest path that only goes through the letter B? (The direction can only be horizontal or vertical, not diagonal.)\nThink about the question and give your final answer in \\boxed{Answer} format.\n
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<think>
The user wants me to find a path from the top-left ‘B’ to the bottom-right ‘B’.\nThe path must:
Start at the ‘B’ indicated by the top-left arrow.
End at the ‘B’ indicated by the bottom-right arrow.
Only pass through cells containing the letter ‘B’.
Move only horizontally or vertically (no diagonals).
Be the “shortest path”. Wait, the question asks “how many letters B will be passed on the shortest path”. This implies I need to count the ‘B’s along a valid path. Since it’s a maze of ‘B’s, there might be multiple paths. Let’s trace the connected component of ‘B’s.
Let’s map out the grid. It’s roughly 17 rows by 10 columns. Let’s count carefully.\nRows:
O B P C R P R B B B
B D B B D B B D B C D <- Start is here at (2,1). Wait, let’s look at the arrow.
The big orange ‘B’ points to the cell at Row 2, Column 1. Wait, no.
Let’s look at the very top left. There is a big orange ‘B’. Below it is an arrow pointing to a cell.
The cell pointed to is Row 2, Column 1. It contains a ‘B’. Wait, let me re-examine the first row.
Row 1: O B P C R P R B B B. The big orange ‘B’ is just a label. The arrow points to the cell below the ‘O’ in the first row? No, let’s look closer.
The arrow originates from the big orange ‘B’. It points to the cell in the second row, first column. Let’s call this (2,1). The letter inside is ‘B’.
Wait, let’s look at the first row again. “O B P C R P R B B B”.
The arrow points to the cell below the ‘O’. That cell is in the second row, first column. The letter is ‘B’.
Row 9: B B P B P D O B P B B -> 11 items. Wait, let me recount row 9.
Row 9: B, B, P, B, P, D, O, B, P, B, B. That’s 11.
Row 10: D R B O B B B B P D B -> 11 items.
Row 11: P B P D B P P D D P D -> 11 items.
Row 12: P D B B B O B B B B P -> 11 items.
Row 13: D P B P O R B D P B P -> 11 items. Wait, the arrow points to the ‘B’ in this row.
Row 14: O P B B B B B B P -> 9 items? No, let’s look at the bottom.
Row 14: O, P, B, B, B, B, B, B, P. That’s 9.
Row 15: G, D, P, D, P, D, D, P. That’s 8.
This grid is irregular? Or am I miscounting?\nLet’s look at the columns vertically.\nCol 1: O (row 1 is offset?), B, B, B, P, D, G, R, B, D, P, P, D, O, G.\nLet’s re-examine the first row. The ‘O’ is aligned with the ‘B’ below it? No, the ‘O’ is to the right of the big ‘B’.\nActually, let’s look at the grid as a whole. It looks like a regular grid of circles.\nLet’s count columns in the middle rows to be sure.\nRow 4: B B B B D D D P P R B -> 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11.\nSo it’s an 11-column grid?\nLet’s check Row 1 again. O B P C R P R B B B. That’s 10 circles. Maybe the first circle is missing or hidden? Or maybe the big ‘B’ is covering it? No, the big ‘B’ is outside.\nWait, look at the top left. The big orange ‘B’ is above the first column. The arrow points to the circle below it.\nLet’s assume the grid is 11 columns wide.\nRow 1: [Empty/Hidden?] O B P C R P R B B B. That would be 11 if there’s a hidden one.\nOr maybe Row 1 has 10 and others have 11? That would be a staggered grid (hexagonal packing).\nLooking at the circles, they are packed like bricks or hexagons.\nRow 1 circles are shifted right relative to Row 2?\nLet’s look at the vertical alignment.\nRow 2 Col 1 (B) is below Row 1 Col 1 (O)? No, Row 1 Col 1 (O) is to the right of the big B.\nLet’s assume standard grid coordinates (row, col).\nLet’s just trace the path visually. That’s safer than coordinate mapping if the grid is weird.
Start Point: The arrow points to a ‘B’ in the second row, first column. Let’s call this Start.\nWait, let’s look at the very first row. “O B P C R P R B B B”.\nThe arrow from the big orange ‘B’ points to the circle containing ‘B’ in the second row, first column?\nNo, let’s look really closely at the arrow.\nThe arrow head is pointing to the circle in the second row, first column. The letter inside is ‘B’.\nWait, let’s look at the first row again. The first circle is ‘O’. The second is ‘B’.\nThe arrow is pointing to the circle below the ‘O’. That circle has a ‘B’ in it.\nSo Start = (Row 2, Col 1). Letter is ‘B’.
End Point: The arrow at the bottom points to a ‘B’.\nLet’s find that ‘B’.\nIt’s in the second to last row? Or third to last?\nLet’s count rows from bottom up.\nLast row: G D P D P D D P (8 circles)\nSecond last row: O P B B B B B B P (9 circles)\nThird last row: D P B P O R B D P B P (11 circles). The arrow points to the ‘B’ at the end, second to last circle?\nLet’s look at the arrow. It points to a circle with ‘B’ inside.\nThe circle is in the row starting “D P B P…”.\nLet’s trace that row: D, P, B, P, O, R, B, D, P, B, P.\nThe arrow points to the ‘B’ which is the 10th circle in that row.\nSo End = (Row 13, Col 10) roughly.
Goal: Find a path of ‘B’s from Start to End.\nConstraint: “shortest path that only goes through the letter B”.\nThis implies there is a connected path of ‘B’s. I need to count the number of ‘B’s in that path.\nWait, “how many letters B will be passed”. Does this include the start and end? Usually “passed” might exclude start/end or include them. “How many letters B will be passed on the shortest path”.\nIf I walk from A to B, I pass through intermediate nodes. But usually in these puzzles, it means “count the B’s in the path”. Let’s assume it means the total count of ‘B’ cells visited.
Let’s trace the path.\nGrid approximation (R=Row, C=Col):\nR1: . O B P C R P R B B B (Let’s assume 11 cols, maybe first is empty or O is col 2)\nActually, let’s just look at neighbors.
Start: R2, C1 is ‘B’.\nNeighbors of (R2, C1):
Up: R1, C1 is ‘O’. Not B.
Right: R2, C2 is ‘D’. Not B.
Down: R3, C1 is ‘B’. This is a valid move.
Left: None.
So from Start (R2, C1), I must go Down to (R3, C1).\nCurrent Path: (R2, C1), (R3, C1). Count = 2.
From (R3, C1) [‘B’]:
Up: (R2, C1) [Visited]
Right: (R3, C2) is ‘P’. Not B.
Down: (R4, C1) is ‘B’. Valid.\nSo go Down to (R4, C1).\nCurrent Path: …, (R4, C1). Count = 3.
From (R4, C1) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Right: (R4, C2) is ‘B’. Valid.
Down: (R5, C1) is ‘P’. Not B.\nSo I have a choice? Or maybe (R4, C2) leads somewhere.\nLet’s look at (R4, C2) [‘B’].\nNeighbors of (R4, C2):
Left: (R4, C1) [Visited]
Up: (R3, C2) is ‘P’. No.
Right: (R4, C3) is ‘B’. Valid.
Down: (R5, C2) is ‘P’. No.\nSo from (R4, C1) -> (R4, C2) -> (R4, C3).\nWait, let’s check (R4, C3).\nRow 4: B B B B D D D P P R B\nSo (R4, C1)=B, (R4, C2)=B, (R4, C3)=B, (R4, C4)=B.\nSo I can go along Row 4.\nPath so far: (R2, C1) -> (R3, C1) -> (R4, C1) -> (R4, C2) -> (R4, C3) -> (R4, C4).\nLet’s check neighbors of (R4, C4) [‘B’].
Left: Visited.
Up: (R3, C4) is ‘P’. No.
Right: (R4, C5) is ‘D’. No.
Down: (R5, C4) is ‘B’. Valid.\nSo go Down to (R5, C4).\nRow 5: P P R B P B B B P B D\nSo (R5, C4) is ‘B’.\nPath: … -> (R4, C4) -> (R5, C4).
From (R5, C4) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Left: (R5, C3) is ‘R’. No.
Right: (R5, C5) is ‘P’. No.
Down: (R6, C4) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 6: D O P B P B E B D D P\nSo (R6, C4) is ‘B’.\nPath: … -> (R5, C4) -> (R6, C4).
From (R6, C4) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Left: (R6, C3) is ‘P’. No.
Right: (R6, C5) is ‘P’. No.
Down: (R7, C4) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 7: G D D B B B P B R P P\nSo (R7, C4) is ‘B’.\nPath: … -> (R6, C4) -> (R7, C4).
From (R7, C4) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Left: (R7, C3) is ‘D’. No.
Right: (R7, C5) is ‘B’. Valid.
Down: (R8, C4) is ‘P’. No. (Row 8: R P P P D P D B D P D) -> Wait, let’s check Row 8 alignment.\nRow 8: R P P P D P D B D P D.\nCol 1: R, Col 2: P, Col 3: P, Col 4: P. So (R8, C4) is ‘P’. Correct.\nSo from (R7, C4), must go Right to (R7, C5).
From (R7, C5) [‘B’]:
Left: Visited.
Up: (R6, C5) is ‘P’. No.
Right: (R7, C6) is ‘B’. Valid.
Down: (R8, C5) is ‘D’. No. (Row 8 Col 5 is D).\nSo go Right to (R7, C6).
From (R7, C6) [‘B’]:
Left: Visited.
Up: (R6, C6) is ‘B’. Valid.
Right: (R7, C7) is ‘P’. No.
Down: (R8, C6) is ‘P’. No.\nSo go Up to (R6, C6).
From (R6, C6) [‘B’]:\nRow 6: D O P B P B E B D D P
Down: Visited (R7, C6).
Left: (R6, C5) is ‘P’. No.
Right: (R6, C7) is ‘E’. No.
Up: (R5, C6) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 5: P P R B P B B B P B D\nSo go Up to (R5, C6).
From (R5, C6) [‘B’]:
Down: Visited.
Left: (R5, C5) is ‘P’. No.
Right: (R5, C7) is ‘B’. Valid.
Up: (R4, C6) is ‘D’. No. (Row 4: B B B B D D D P P R B) -> Col 6 is D.\nSo go Right to (R5, C7).
From (R5, C7) [‘B’]:
Left: Visited.
Right: (R5, C8) is ‘B’. Valid.
Up: (R4, C7) is ‘D’. No.
Down: (R6, C7) is ‘E’. No.\nSo go Right to (R5, C8).
From (R5, C8) [‘B’]:
Left: Visited.
Right: (R5, C9) is ‘P’. No.
Up: (R4, C8) is ‘P’. No.
Down: (R6, C8) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 6: D O P B P B E B D D P\nSo go Down to (R6, C8).
From (R6, C8) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Left: (R6, C7) is ‘E’. No.
Right: (R6, C9) is ‘D’. No.
Down: (R7, C8) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 7: G D D B B B P B R P P\nSo go Down to (R7, C8).
From (R7, C8) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Left: (R7, C7) is ‘P’. No.
Right: (R7, C9) is ‘R’. No.
Down: (R8, C8) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 8: R P P P D P D B D P D\nSo go Down to (R8, C8).
From (R8, C8) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Left: (R8, C7) is ‘D’. No.
Right: (R8, C9) is ‘D’. No.
Down: (R9, C8) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 9: B B P B P D O B P B B\nSo go Down to (R9, C8).
From (R9, C8) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Left: (R9, C7) is ‘O’. No.
Right: (R9, C9) is ‘P’. No.
Down: (R10, C8) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 10: D R B O B B B B P D B\nSo go Down to (R10, C8).
From (R10, C8) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Left: (R10, C7) is ‘B’. Valid.
Right: (R10, C9) is ‘P’. No.
Down: (R11, C8) is ‘D’. No. (Row 11: P B P D B P P D D P D) -> Wait, let’s check Row 11.\nRow 11: P B P D B P P D D P D.\nCol 8 is D. Correct.\nSo from (R10, C8), must go Left to (R10, C7).
From (R10, C7) [‘B’]:
Right: Visited.
Left: (R10, C6) is ‘B’. Valid.
Up: (R9, C7) is ‘O’. No.
Down: (R11, C7) is ‘P’. No.\nSo go Left to (R10, C6).
From (R10, C6) [‘B’]:
Right: Visited.
Left: (R10, C5) is ‘B’. Valid.
Up: (R9, C6) is ‘D’. No.
Down: (R11, C6) is ‘P’. No.\nSo go Left to (R10, C5).
From (R10, C5) [‘B’]:
Right: Visited.
Left: (R10, C4) is ‘O’. No.
Up: (R9, C5) is ‘P’. No.
Down: (R11, C5) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 11: P B P D B P P D D P D\nSo go Down to (R11, C5).
From (R11, C5) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Left: (R11, C4) is ‘D’. No.
Right: (R11, C6) is ‘P’. No.
Down: (R12, C5) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 12: P D B B B O B B B B P\nSo go Down to (R12, C5).
From (R12, C5) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Left: (R12, C4) is ‘B’. Valid.
Right: (R12, C6) is ‘O’. No.
Down: (R13, C5) is ‘O’. No. (Row 13: D P B P O R B D P B P)\nSo go Left to (R12, C4).
From (R12, C4) [‘B’]:
Right: Visited.
Left: (R12, C3) is ‘B’. Valid.
Up: (R11, C4) is ‘D’. No.
Down: (R13, C4) is ‘P’. No.\nSo go Left to (R12, C3).
From (R12, C3) [‘B’]:
Right: Visited.
Left: (R12, C2) is ‘D’. No.
Up: (R11, C3) is ‘P’. No.
Down: (R13, C3) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 13: D P B P O R B D P B P\nSo go Down to (R13, C3).
From (R13, C3) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Left: (R13, C2) is ‘P’. No.
Right: (R13, C4) is ‘P’. No.
Down: (R14, C3) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 14: O P B B B B B B P\nSo go Down to (R14, C3).
From (R14, C3) [‘B’]:
Up: Visited.
Left: (R14, C2) is ‘P’. No.
Right: (R14, C4) is ‘B’. Valid.
Down: (R15, C3) is ‘P’. No. (Row 15: G D P D P D D P) -> Wait, let’s check alignment.\nRow 15 has 8 items. Row 14 has 9 items.\nLet’s assume standard alignment.\nRow 14: O(1), P(2), B(3), B(4), B(5), B(6), B(7), B(8), P(9).\nRow 15: G(1), D(2), P(3), D(4), P(5), D(6), D(7), P(8).\nSo below (R14, C3) is (R15, C3) which is ‘P’. Correct.\nSo from (R14, C3), must go Right to (R14, C4).
From (R14, C4) [‘B’]:
Left: Visited.
Right: (R14, C5) is ‘B’. Valid.
Up: (R13, C4) is ‘P’. No.
Down: (R15, C4) is ‘D’. No.\nSo go Right to (R14, C5).
From (R14, C5) [‘B’]:
Left: Visited.
Right: (R14, C6) is ‘B’. Valid.
Up: (R13, C5) is ‘O’. No.
Down: (R15, C5) is ‘P’. No.\nSo go Right to (R14, C6).
From (R14, C6) [‘B’]:
Left: Visited.
Right: (R14, C7) is ‘B’. Valid.
Up: (R13, C6) is ‘R’. No.
Down: (R15, C6) is ‘D’. No.\nSo go Right to (R14, C7).
From (R14, C7) [‘B’]:
Left: Visited.
Right: (R14, C8) is ‘B’. Valid.
Up: (R13, C7) is ‘B’. Valid. Wait, let’s check Row 13.\nRow 13: D P B P O R B D P B P.\nCol 7 is ‘B’.\nSo from (R14, C7), I can go Up to (R13, C7) or Right to (R14, C8).\nThe End point is at (R13, C10) roughly.\nLet’s check the End point again.\nThe arrow points to a ‘B’ in Row 13.\nRow 13: D(1), P(2), B(3), P(4), O(5), R(6), B(7), D(8), P(9), B(10), P(11).\nYes, End is (R13, C10).\nSo I need to get to (R13, C10).\nFrom (R14, C7), if I go Right to (R14, C8):\n(R14, C8) is ‘B’.\nNeighbors of (R14, C8):
Left: Visited.
Right: (R14, C9) is ‘P’. No.
Up: (R13, C8) is ‘D’. No.
Down: (R15, C8) is ‘P’. No.\nSo (R14, C8) is a dead end?\nWait, let’s re-check Row 14.\nRow 14: O P B B B B B B P.\nCols: 1(O), 2(P), 3(B), 4(B), 5(B), 6(B), 7(B), 8(B), 9(P).\nSo (R14, C8) is ‘B’.\nUp from (R14, C8) is (R13, C8).\nRow 13: D P B P O R B D P B P.\nCol 8 is ‘D’. So Up is blocked.\nRight from (R14, C8) is (R14, C9) which is ‘P’. Blocked.\nSo (R14, C8) is a dead end.\nThis means my path choice at (R14, C7) was wrong? Or maybe I missed a connection.\nLet’s re-examine (R14, C7).\nUp is (R13, C7) which is ‘B’.\nSo I must go Up to (R13, C7).
From (R13, C7) [‘B’]:
Down: Visited (R14, C7).
Left: (R13, C6) is ‘R’. No.
Right: (R13, C8) is ‘D’. No.
Up: (R12, C7) is ‘B’. Valid.\nRow 12: P D B B B O B B B B P.\nCol 7 is ‘B’.\nSo go Up to (R12, C7).
From (R12, C7) [‘B’]:
Down: Visited.
Left: (R12, C6) is ‘O’. No.
Right: (R12, C8) is ‘B’. Valid.
Up: (R11, C7) is ‘P’. No.\nSo go Right to (R12, C8).
From (R12, C8) [‘B’]:
Left: Visited.
Right: (R12, C9) is ‘B’. Valid.
Up: (R11, C8) is ‘D’. No.
Down: (R13, C8) is ‘D’. No.\nSo go Right to (R12, C9).
From (R12, C9) [‘B’]:
Left: Visited.
Right: (R12, C10) is ‘B’. Valid.
Up: (R11, C9) is ‘D’. No.
Down: (R13, C9) is ‘P’. No.\nSo go Right to (R12, C10).
From (R12, C10) [‘B’]:
Left: Visited.
Right: (R12, C11) is ‘P’. No.
Up: (R11, C10) is ‘P’. No.
Down: (R13, C10) is ‘B’. Valid. This is the End point!\nRow 13: … P(9), B(10), P(11).\nYes, (R13, C10) is the target ‘B’.
So I have found a path. Now I need to count the ‘B’s.\nLet’s list the coordinates and count.
Path Trace:
Start: (R2, C1) - ‘B’
(R3, C1) - ‘B’
(R4, C1) - ‘B’
(R4, C2) - ‘B’
(R4, C3) - ‘B’
(R4, C4) - ‘B’
(R5, C4) - ‘B’
(R6, C4) - ‘B’
(R7, C4) - ‘B’
(R7, C5) - ‘B’
(R7, C6) - ‘B’
(R6, C6) - ‘B’
(R5, C6) - ‘B’
(R5, C7) - ‘B’
(R5, C8) - ‘B’
(R6, C8) - ‘B’
(R7, C8) - ‘B’
(R8, C8) - ‘B’
(R9, C8) - ‘B’
(R10, C8) - ‘B’
(R10, C7) - ‘B’
(R10, C6) - ‘B’
(R10, C5) - ‘B’
(R11, C5) - ‘B’
(R12, C5) - ‘B’
(R12, C4) - ‘B’
(R12, C3) - ‘B’
(R13, C3) - ‘B’
(R14, C3) - ‘B’
(R14, C4) - ‘B’
(R14, C5) - ‘B’
(R14, C6) - ‘B’
(R14, C7) - ‘B’
(R13, C7) - ‘B’ (Went Up here)
(R12, C7) - ‘B’
(R12, C8) - ‘B’
(R12, C9) - ‘B’
(R12, C10) - ‘B’
End: (R13, C10) - ‘B’
Wait, is this the shortest path?\nLet’s check for shortcuts.\nAt step 20: (R10, C8).\nNeighbors: Up (R9, C8) [Visited], Left (R10, C7) [Used], Right (R10, C9) is ‘P’, Down (R11, C8) is ‘D’.\nSo from (R10, C8), I must go Left. No choice.
At step 23: (R10, C5).\nNeighbors: Up (R9, C5) is ‘P’, Left (R10, C4) is ‘O’, Right (R10, C6) [Visited], Down (R11, C5) [Used].\nWait, at step 23 I came from (R10, C6).\nSo from (R10, C5), I must go Down to (R11, C5). No choice.
At step 25: (R12, C5).\nNeighbors: Up (R11, C5) [Visited], Left (R12, C4) [Used], Right (R12, C6) is ‘O’, Down (R13, C5) is ‘O’.\nSo from (R12, C5), I must go Left to (R12, C4). No choice.
At step 27: (R12, C3).\nNeighbors: Up (R11, C3) is ‘P’, Left (R12, C2) is ‘D’, Right (R12, C4) [Visited], Down (R13, C3) [Used].\nSo from (R12, C3), I must go Down to (R13, C3). No choice.
At step 29: (R14, C3).\nNeighbors: Up (R13, C3) [Visited], Left (R14, C2) is ‘P’, Right (R14, C4) [Used], Down (R15, C3) is ‘P’.\nSo from (R14, C3), I must go Right. No choice.
At step 33: (R14, C7).\nNeighbors: Left (R14, C6) [Visited], Right (R14, C8) is ‘B’ (Dead end), Up (R13, C7) is ‘B’, Down (R15, C7) is ‘D’ (Row 15 has 8 cols, so maybe no col 7? Or aligned differently).\nLet’s check Row 15 alignment again.\nRow 14: O P B B B B B B P (9 cols)\nRow 15: G D P D P D D P (8 cols)\nIt looks like Row 15 is shifted or just shorter.\nIf Row 15 is aligned left:\nR15C1=G (below R14C1=O)\nR15C2=D (below R14C2=P)\nR15C3=P (below R14C3=B)\nR15C4=D (below R14C4=B)\n…\nSo below R14C7 (which is the 7th B) would be R15C7 (which is D).\nSo Down is blocked.\nRight is (R14, C8) which is ‘B’.\nFrom (R14, C8), neighbors:
Left: Visited.
Right: (R14, C9) is ‘P’.
Up: (R13, C8) is ‘D’.
Down: (R15, C8) is ‘P’.\nSo (R14, C8) is indeed a dead end.\nSo from (R14, C7), I must go Up to (R13, C7).
So the path seems unique? Or at least, the segments I traversed were forced.\nLet’s check the segment from (R4, C4) to (R7, C8).\n(R4, C4) -> (R5, C4) -> (R6, C4) -> (R7, C4). Forced (Down is only option).\n(R7, C4) -> (R7, C5) -> (R7, C6). Forced (Right is only option, Down is P).\n(R7, C6) -> (R6, C6). Forced (Up is only option, Right is P, Down is P).\n(R6, C6) -> (R5, C6). Forced (Up is only option, Right is E, Left is P).\n(R5, C6) -> (R5, C7) -> (R5, C8). Forced (Right is only option).\n(R5, C8) -> (R6, C8) -> (R7, C8) -> (R8, C8) -> (R9, C8) -> (R10, C8). Forced (Down is only option).
So the path from Start to (R10, C8) is unique.\nFrom (R10, C8) to (R12, C5):\n(R10, C8) -> (R10, C7) -> (R10, C6) -> (R10, C5) -> (R11, C5) -> (R12, C5).\nIs there any other way?\nAt (R10, C8), Down is D, Right is P. Left is B. Up is Visited. So must go Left.\nAt (R10, C7), Up is O (R9C7), Down is P (R11C7). Left is B. Right is Visited. So must go Left.\nAt (R10, C6), Up is D (R9C6), Down is P (R11C6). Left is B. Right is Visited. So must go Left.\nAt (R10, C5), Up is P (R9C5), Left is O (R10C4). Down is B (R11C5). Right is Visited. So must go Down.\nAt (R11, C5), Left is D (R11C4), Right is P (R11C6). Up is Visited. Down is B (R12C5). So must go Down.\nAt (R12, C5), Right is O (R12C6), Down is O (R13C5). Up is Visited. Left is B (R12C4). So must go Left.
So the path from (R10, C8) to (R12, C5) is unique.\nFrom (R12, C5) to (R14, C7):\n(R12, C5) -> (R12, C4) -> (R12, C3) -> (R13, C3) -> (R14, C3) -> (R14, C4) -> (R14, C5) -> (R14, C6) -> (R14, C7).\nIs there any other way?\nAt (R12, C5), must go Left.\nAt (R12, C4), Up is D (R11C4), Down is P (R13C4). Left is B (R12C3). Right is Visited. So must go Left.\nAt (R12, C3), Up is P (R11C3), Left is D (R12C2). Down is B (R13C3). Right is Visited. So must go Down.\nAt (R13, C3), Left is P (R13C2), Right is P (R13C4). Up is Visited. Down is B (R14C3). So must go Down.\nAt (R14, C3), Left is P (R14C2), Down is P (R15C3). Right is B (R14C4). Up is Visited. So must go Right.\nAt (R14, C4), Up is P (R13C4), Down is D (R15C4). Right is B (R14C5). Left is Visited. So must go Right.\nAt (R14, C5), Up is O (R13C5), Down is P (R15C5). Right is B (R14C6). Left is Visited. So must go Right.\nAt (R14, C6), Up is R (R13C6), Down is D (R15C6). Right is B (R14C7). Left is Visited. So must go Right.\nAt (R14, C7), Down is D (R15C7), Left is Visited. Right is B (R14C8 - Dead End). Up is B (R13C7). So must go Up.
So the path from (R12, C5) to (R13, C7) is unique (ignoring the dead end detour).\nFrom (R13, C7) to End (R13, C10):\n(R13, C7) -> (R12, C7) -> (R12, C8) -> (R12, C9) -> (R12, C10) -> (R13, C10).\nIs there any other way?\nAt (R13, C7), Left is R (R13C6), Right is D (R13C8), Down is Visited. Up is B (R12C7). So must go Up.\nAt (R12, C7), Left is O (R12C6), Up is P (R11C7), Down is Visited. Right is B (R12C8). So must go Right.\nAt (R12, C8), Up is D (R11C8), Down is D (R13C8). Left is Visited. Right is B (R12C9). So must go Right.\nAt (R12, C9), Up is D (R11C9), Down is P (R13C9). Left is Visited. Right is B (R12C10). So must go Right.\nAt (R12, C10), Up is P (R11C10), Right is P (R12C11). Left is Visited. Down is B (R13C10 - End). So must go Down.
Conclusion: The path is unique!\nSo I just need to count the steps I listed.\nLet’s recount carefully.
(2,1) Start
(3,1)
(4,1)
(4,2)
(4,3)
(4,4)
(5,4)
(6,4)
(7,4)
(7,5)
(7,6)
(6,6)
(5,6)
(5,7)
(5,8)
(6,8)
(7,8)
(8,8)
(9,8)
(10,8)
(10,7)
(10,6)
(10,5)
(11,5)
(12,5)
(12,4)
(12,3)
(13,3)
(14,3)
(14,4)
(14,5)
(14,6)
(14,7)
(13,7)
(12,7)
(12,8)
(12,9)
(12,10)
(13,10) End
Total count: 39.
Let me double check the “Shortest path” part.\nSince the path is unique (no branches that lead to the destination without backtracking or hitting dead ends), the unique path is automatically the shortest.\nWait, did I miss any branches?\nLet’s re-scan for branches.
(4,1) -> Right to (4,2). Down is (5,1)=‘P’. Up is (3,1) [Visited]. Left is wall. So only Right.
(4,2) -> Right to (4,3). Up is (3,2)=‘P’. Down is (5,2)=‘P’. So only Right.
(4,3) -> Right to (4,4). Up is (3,3)=‘D’. Down is (5,3)=‘R’. So only Right.
(4,4) -> Down to (5,4). Right is (4,5)=‘D’. Up is (3,4)=‘P’. So only Down.
(5,4) -> Down to (6,4). Left is (5,3)=‘R’. Right is (5,5)=‘P’. So only Down.
(6,4) -> Down to (7,4). Left is (6,3)=‘P’. Right is (6,5)=‘P’. So only Down.
(7,4) -> Right to (7,5). Down is (8,4)=‘P’. Left is (7,3)=‘D’. So only Right.
(7,5) -> Right to (7,6). Down is (8,5)=‘D’. Up is (6,5)=‘P’. So only Right.
(7,6) -> Up to (6,6). Right is (7,7)=‘P’. Down is (8,6)=‘P’. So only Up.
(6,6) -> Up to (5,6). Left is (6,5)=‘P’. Right is (6,7)=‘E’. So only Up.
(5,6) -> Right to (5,7). Up is (4,6)=‘D’. Left is (5,5)=‘P’. So only Right.
(5,7) -> Right to (5,8). Up is (4,7)=‘D’. Down is (6,7)=‘E’. So only Right.
(5,8) -> Down to (6,8). Right is (5,9)=‘P’. Up is (4,8)=‘P’. So only Down.
(6,8) -> Down to (7,8). Left is (6,7)=‘E’. Right is (6,9)=‘D’. So only Down.
(7,8) -> Down to (8,8). Left is (7,7)=‘P’. Right is (7,9)=‘R’. So only Down.
(8,8) -> Down to (9,8). Left is (8,7)=‘D’. Right is (8,9)=‘D’. So only Down.
(9,8) -> Down to (10,8). Left is (9,7)=‘O’. Right is (9,9)=‘P’. So only Down.
(10,8) -> Left to (10,7). Right is (10,9)=‘P’. Down is (11,8)=‘D’. Up is Visited. So only Left.
(10,7) -> Left to (10,6). Up is (9,7)=‘O’. Down is (11,7)=‘P’. So only Left.
(10,6) -> Left to (10,5). Up is (9,6)=‘D’. Down is (11,6)=‘P’. So only Left.
(10,5) -> Down to (11,5). Left is (10,4)=‘O’. Right is Visited. Up is (9,5)=‘P’. So only Down.
(11,5) -> Down to (12,5). Left is (11,4)=‘D’. Right is (11,6)=‘P’. Up is Visited. So only Down.
(12,5) -> Left to (12,4). Right is (12,6)=‘O’. Down is (13,5)=‘O’. Up is Visited. So only Left.
(12,4) -> Left to (12,3). Up is (11,4)=‘D’. Down is (13,4)=‘P’. Right is Visited. So only Left.
(12,3) -> Down to (13,3). Left is (12,2)=‘D’. Up is (11,3)=‘P’. Right is Visited. So only Down.
(13,3) -> Down to (14,3). Left is (13,2)=‘P’. Right is (13,4)=‘P’. Up is Visited. So only Down.
(14,3) -> Right to (14,4). Left is (14,2)=‘P’. Down is (15,3)=‘P’. Up is Visited. So only Right.
(14,4) -> Right to (14,5). Down is (15,4)=‘D’. Up is (13,4)=‘P’. Left is Visited. So only Right.
(14,5) -> Right to (14,6). Down is (15,5)=‘P’. Up is (13,5)=‘O’. Left is Visited. So only Right.
(14,6) -> Right to (14,7). Down is (15,6)=‘D’. Up is (13,6)=‘R’. Left is Visited. So only Right.
(14,7) -> Up to (13,7). Right is (14,8)=‘B’ (Dead End). Down is (15,7)=‘D’. Left is Visited. So only Up.
Wait, let’s verify (14,8) is a dead end.
(14,8) neighbors: Left (14,7) [Visited], Right (14,9)=‘P’, Up (13,8)=‘D’, Down (15,8)=‘P’. Yes, dead end.
(13,7) -> Up to (12,7). Left is (13,6)=‘R’. Right is (13,8)=‘D’. Down is Visited. So only Up.
(12,7) -> Right to (12,8). Left is (12,6)=‘O’. Up is (11,7)=‘P’. Down is Visited. So only Right.
(12,8) -> Right to (12,9). Left is Visited. Up is (11,8)=‘D’. Down is (13,8)=‘D’. So only Right.
(12,9) -> Right to (12,10). Left is Visited. Up is (11,9)=‘D’. Down is (13,9)=‘P’. So only Right.
(12,10) -> Down to (13,10) [End]. Left is Visited. Up is (11,10)=‘P’. Right is (12,11)=‘P’. So only Down.
The path is indeed unique.\nSo the count is 39.
Let me recount just to be absolutely sure.
Start (2,1)
(3,1)
(4,1)
(4,2)
(4,3)
(4,4)
(5,4)
(6,4)
(7,4)
(7,5)
(7,6)
(6,6)
(5,6)
(5,7)
(5,8)
(6,8)
(7,8)
(8,8)
(9,8)
(10,8)
(10,7)
(10,6)
(10,5)
(11,5)
(12,5)
(12,4)
(12,3)
(13,3)
(14,3)
(14,4)
(14,5)
(14,6)
(14,7)
(13,7)
(12,7)
(12,8)
(12,9)
(12,10)
End (13,10)
Wait, let’s verify row 12 again.\nRow 12: P D B B B O B B B B P\nCols: 1(P), 2(D), 3(B), 4(B), 5(B), 6(O), 7(B), 8(B), 9(B), 10(B), 11(P).\nMy path used:\n(12,5) -> (12,4) -> (12,3). Correct.\nThen later:\n(12,7) -> (12,8) -> (12,9) -> (12,10). Correct.\nAre (12,5) and (12,7) connected?\n(12,5) is B. (12,6) is O. (12,7) is B.\nSo they are separated by ‘O’.\nMy path went from (12,5) leftwards to (12,3), then down to (13,3), then down to (14,3), then right along row 14 to (14,7), then up to (13,7), then up to (12,7).\nThis loop around the ‘O’ at (12,6) and (13,5) etc. seems correct.\nLet’s check the detour.\n(12,5) [B] -> Left to (12,4) [B] -> Left to (12,3) [B].\nFrom (12,3) -> Down to (13,3) [B].\nFrom (13,3) -> Down to (14,3) [B].\nFrom (14,3) -> Right to (14,4) [B] -> Right to (14,5) [B] -> Right to (14,6) [B] -> Right to (14,7) [B].\nFrom (14,7) -> Up to (13,7) [B].\nFrom (13,7) -> Up to (12,7) [B].\nThis connects the left part of Row 12 to the right part of Row 12 via Row 13 and 14.\nThis seems correct.
Let’s check the connection at (13,7).\nRow 13: D P B P O R B D P B P\nCols: 1(D), 2(P), 3(B), 4(P), 5(O), 6(R), 7(B), 8(D), 9(P), 10(B), 11(P).\nSo (13,7) is B.\nNeighbors of (13,7):
Up: (12,7) is B. (Row 12 Col 7 is B). Correct.
Down: (14,7) is B. (Row 14 Col 7 is B). Correct.
Left: (13,6) is R.
Right: (13,8) is D.\nSo yes, (13,7) connects (12,7) and (14,7).
So the path is valid.\nCount is 39.
Let me just do a quick recount by grouping segments.\nSegment 1: Vertical down col 1.\n(2,1), (3,1), (4,1). Count = 3.\nSegment 2: Horizontal right row 4.\n(4,2), (4,3), (4,4). Count = 3.\nSegment 3: Vertical down col 4.\n(5,4), (6,4), (7,4). Count = 3.\nSegment 4: Horizontal right row 7.\n(7,5), (7,6). Count = 2.\nSegment 5: Vertical up col 6.\n(6,6), (5,6). Count = 2.\nSegment 6: Horizontal right row 5.\n(5,7), (5,8). Count = 2.\nSegment 7: Vertical down col 8.\n(6,8), (7,8), (8,8), (9,8), (10,8). Count = 5.\nSegment 8: Horizontal left row 10.\n(10,7), (10,6), (10,5). Count = 3.\nSegment 9: Vertical down col 5.\n(11,5), (12,5). Count = 2.\nSegment 10: Horizontal left row 12.\n(12,4), (12,3). Count = 2.\nSegment 11: Vertical down col 3.\n(13,3), (14,3). Count = 2.\nSegment 12: Horizontal right row 14.\n(14,4), (14,5), (14,6), (14,7). Count = 4.\nSegment 13: Vertical up col 7.\n(13,7), (12,7). Count = 2.\nSegment 14: Horizontal right row 12.\n(12,8), (12,9), (12,10). Count = 3.\nSegment 15: Vertical down to end.\n(13,10). Count = 1.
Wait, “how many letters B will be passed”.\nDoes “passed” include the start and end?\n“Starting from the red arrow… and ending at the red arrow… how many letters B will be passed on the shortest path”.\nUsually, “passed” implies the nodes visited.\nIf I walk from A to B, I pass through A, intermediate nodes, and B.\nOr does “passed” mean intermediate nodes only?\n“How many letters B will be passed” -> This phrasing is slightly ambiguous.\nHowever, “on the shortest path” usually implies the set of cells constituting the path.\nIf the question meant “how many steps”, it would ask for steps.\nIf it meant “intermediate B’s”, it would say “between start and end”.\nGiven it’s a puzzle, counting all B’s in the path is the standard interpretation.\nLet’s assume it means “count the B’s in the path”.\nSo 39.
Let’s double check if I missed any B’s.\nStart: (2,1) - Yes.\nEnd: (13,10) - Yes.\nPath:\n(2,1)\n(3,1)\n(4,1)\n(4,2)\n(4,3)\n(4,4)\n(5,4)\n(6,4)\n(7,4)\n(7,5)\n(7,6)\n(6,6)\n(5,6)\n(5,7)\n(5,8)\n(6,8)\n(7,8)\n(8,8)\n(9,8)\n(10,8)\n(10,7)\n(10,6)\n(10,5)\n(11,5)\n(12,5)\n(12,4)\n(12,3)\n(13,3)\n(14,3)\n(14,4)\n(14,5)\n(14,6)\n(14,7)\n(13,7)\n(12,7)\n(12,8)\n(12,9)\n(12,10)\n(13,10)
Let’s verify the grid content one more time for a few critical points.\n(12,10) is B?\nRow 12: P D B B B O B B B B P\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11\nYes, 10th is B.\n(13,10) is B?\nRow 13: D P B P O R B D P B P\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11\nYes, 10th is B. And the arrow points to it.
(10,5) is B?\nRow 10: D R B O B B B B P D B\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11\nWait.\nRow 10: D(1), R(2), B(3), O(4), B(5), B(6), B(7), B(8), P(9), D(10), B(11).\nMy previous trace:\n(10,8) -> (10,7) -> (10,6) -> (10,5).\n(10,8) is B.\n(10,7) is B.\n(10,6) is B.\n(10,5) is B.\nLet’s check Row 10 again.\nD R B O B B B B P D B\nCol 5 is B. Col 6 is B. Col 7 is B. Col 8 is B.\nSo (10,5), (10,6), (10,7), (10,8) are all B.\nMy trace:\nFrom (10,8) [B] go Left to (10,7) [B].\nFrom (10,7) [B] go Left to (10,6) [B].\nFrom (10,6) [B] go Left to (10,5) [B].\nFrom (10,5) [B] go Down to (11,5).\nLet’s check (11,5).\nRow 11: P B P D B P P D D P D\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11\nCol 5 is B. Correct.\nSo the segment (10,8) -> (10,5) is valid.
Let’s check (12,5).\nRow 12: P D B B B O B B B B P\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11\nCol 5 is B. Correct.\nSo (11,5) -> (12,5) is valid.
Let’s check (12,3).\nRow 12 Col 3 is B. Correct.\nSo (12,5) -> (12,4) -> (12,3) is valid. (Col 4 is B).
Let’s check (13,3).\nRow 13: D P B P O R B D P B P\nCol 3 is B. Correct.\nSo (12,3) -> (13,3) is valid.
Let’s check (14,3).\nRow 14: O P B B B B B B P\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9\nCol 3 is B. Correct.\nSo (13,3) -> (14,3) is valid.
Let’s check (14,7).\nRow 14 Col 7 is B. Correct.\nSo (14,3) -> … -> (14,7) is valid. (Cols 4,5,6 are B).
Let’s check (13,7).\nRow 13 Col 7 is B. Correct.\nSo (14,7) -> (13,7) is valid.
Let’s check (12,7).\nRow 12 Col 7 is B. Correct.\nSo (13,7) -> (12,7) is valid.
Let’s check (12,10).\nRow 12 Col 10 is B. Correct.\nSo (12,7) -> (12,8) -> (12,9) -> (12,10) is valid. (Cols 8,9 are B).
Let’s check (13,10).\nRow 13 Col 10 is B. Correct.\nSo (12,10) -> (13,10) is valid.
Everything seems consistent.\nThe count is 39.
One final check on the start.\n“Starting from the red arrow in the upper left corner”.\nThe arrow points to (2,1).\nIs it possible the arrow points to (1,2)?\nRow 1: O B P C R P R B B B\n(1,2) is B.\nIf start is (1,2):\nNeighbors:
Left: (1,1) O. No.
Right: (1,3) P. No.
Down: (2,2) D. No.
Up: None.\nSo (1,2) is isolated. It cannot be the start.\nSo the start must be (2,1).\nThe arrow is physically located near the top left. The big ‘B’ is above it.\nThe arrow points to the circle in the second row, first column.\nWait, look at the very top left corner.\nThere is a circle with ‘O’.\nTo its left, there is the big orange ‘B’.\nThe arrow comes from the big ‘B’ and points to the circle below the ‘O’.\nWait, let’s look at the image again.\nThe arrow head is on the circle with ‘B’ in the second row, first column.\nYes, that’s (2,1).\nAnd the circle above it is ‘O’ (1,1).\nSo Start is definitely (2,1).
One final check on the end.\n“ending at the red arrow in the lower right corner”.\nThe arrow points to a circle with ‘B’.\nIt is in the row starting “D P B P…”. That’s Row 13.\nThe circle is the second from the right.\nRow 13: … P(9), B(10), P(11).\nSo it is (13,10).\nThe circle below it is in Row 14.\nRow 14 ends with P.\nThe circle to its right is P(11) in Row 13.\nSo End is definitely (13,10).
The path count is 39.
</think>
The path starts at the ‘B’ in the second row, first column (indicated by the top arrow) and ends at the ‘B’ in the thirteenth row, tenth column (indicated by the bottom arrow).
The screenshot shows a snapshot of a LaTex text editor a student uses for writing their PhD dissertation. What is the minimum number of chapter .tex files the student has opened?
Let’s think step by step and give the final answer in curly braces, like this: {final answer}\n
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<think>\nThe user wants me to count the minimum number of chapter .tex files opened in the editor based on the screenshot.
Identify the relevant area: I need to look at the top of the editor window where the open tabs are displayed.
Scan the tabs: Let’s look at the tabs from left to right.
Tab 1: chapte... (This looks like a chapter file)
Tab 2: chapte... (This looks like another chapter file)
Tab 3: thesis... (This is likely the main thesis.tex file, not a chapter file specifically, but let’s keep looking). Wait, the question asks for “chapter .tex files”.
Tab 4: chapte... (Another chapter file)
Tab 5: chapte... (Another chapter file)
Tab 6: ch... (This is cut off, likely another chapter file).
Let’s look more closely at the tabs.
Tab 1: chapte...
Tab 2: chapte...
Tab 3: thesis... -> This is likely thesis.tex, the root file.
Tab 4: chapte...
Tab 5: chapte...
Tab 6: ch... -> This is likely chapter... or similar.
Let’s look at the file structure on the left to confirm naming conventions.
Chapter1/chapter1
Chapter2/chapter2
Chapter3/chapter3
Chapter4/chapter4
Chapter5/chapter5
Chapter6/chapter6
Chapter7/chapter7
Chapter8/chapter8
Now let’s re-examine the tabs at the top.
chapte...
chapte...
thesis... (This is the root file, thesis.tex as indicated by %!TEX root = ./thesis.tex in the code).
chapte...
chapte...
ch... (This is visible just before the navigation arrows < >).
So, excluding thesis..., there are tabs starting with chapte or ch.\nLet’s count them:
chapte...
chapte...
chapte...
chapte...
ch...
That makes 5 tabs that look like chapter files. Wait, let me look really closely at the tab bar.
Tab 1: chapte...
Tab 2: chapte...
Tab 3: thesis...
Tab 4: chapte...
Tab 5: chapte...
Tab 6: ch... (This is partially visible, looks like ch...)
Actually, let’s look at the active code. The code shows \\chapter{Introduction}. This suggests the current file is likely chapter1.tex or similar.\nThe tab bar shows:
chapte... (Tab 1)
chapte... (Tab 2)
thesis... (Tab 3)
chapte... (Tab 4)
chapte... (Tab 5)
ch... (Tab 6 - barely visible, looks like ch...)
Let’s count the tabs that start with “chapte” or “ch”.
First tab: chapte...
Second tab: chapte...
Fourth tab: chapte...
Fifth tab: chapte...
Sixth tab: ch... (This is right next to the < > arrows).
So that’s 5 tabs that are likely chapter files.\nWait, let’s look at the third tab thesis.... That’s the main file.\nSo the count is 1, 2, 4, 5, 6. That is 5 files.
Let me recount carefully.\nFrom left to right in the tab bar:
chapte...
chapte...
thesis...
chapte...
chapte...
ch... (This is cut off but visible).
So there are 5 tabs that start with “chapte” or “ch”.\nIs it possible that thesis... is a chapter file? Unlikely, usually thesis.tex is the main file. The first line of code says %!TEX root = ./thesis.tex, confirming the main file is open.\nSo the other tabs are the included files.\nThe tabs are:
chapte...
chapte...
thesis... (Not a chapter file)
chapte...
chapte...
ch...
So there are 5 chapter files open.
Let’s look at the structure panel on the left.\nIt lists Chapter1/chapter1, Chapter2/chapter2, etc.\nThe open tabs correspond to files.\nThe tabs are:
chapte...
chapte...
thesis...
chapte...
chapte...
ch...
Wait, let’s look at the very top left of the tab bar.\nThere is a Structure panel tab, then the file tabs.\nThe file tabs are:
chapte...
chapte...
thesis...
chapte...
chapte...
ch...
Let’s assume ch... is a chapter file.\nSo that’s 5 chapter files.
Is it possible that thesis... is thesis-info.tex?\nIn the file tree, there is thesis-info.\nBut the tab says thesis.... And the code has %!TEX root = ./thesis.tex. This usually appears in sub-files. The active file in the editor has \\chapter{Introduction}. This is likely chapter1.tex.\nThe tab corresponding to the active file is usually highlighted or distinct. Here, the tabs look similar.\nHowever, the code visible is clearly a chapter file.\nThe tab bar has 6 visible file tabs.\nOne is thesis....\nThe others start with chapte or ch.\nSo 5 tabs start with chapte or ch.
Let’s look really closely at the 6th tab. It says ch.... It’s next to the < > navigation buttons.\nSo, tabs 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 are chapter files.\nThat makes 5.
Let’s check if thesis... could be a chapter file. In the file tree, there is thesis.tex at the top. There is also thesis-info.\nThe tab says thesis.... It’s likely thesis.tex.\nSo the minimum number of chapter files is 5.
Let me double check the count.\nTab 1: chapte...\nTab 2: chapte...\nTab 3: thesis...\nTab 4: chapte...\nTab 5: chapte...\nTab 6: ch...
Yes, 5 tabs look like chapter files.
Wait, is it possible that the first tab is chapter1.tex and the second is chapter2.tex etc?\nThe file tree shows Chapter1/chapter1, Chapter2/chapter2…\nThe tabs are truncated.\nLet’s assume the question asks for the number of opened chapter .tex files.\nBased on the tabs, there are 5 tabs that start with “chapte” or “ch”.\nSo the answer is 5.
Let me look again.\nTab 1: chapte...\nTab 2: chapte...\nTab 3: thesis...\nTab 4: chapte...\nTab 5: chapte...\nTab 6: ch...
Is it possible that thesis... is thesis.tex and not a chapter file? Yes.\nSo the count is 5.
Let’s look at the file tree to see if there are files named chapter....\nYes: Chapter1/chapter1, Chapter2/chapter2, Chapter3/chapter3, etc.\nSo the tabs chapte... correspond to these.
Is it possible that one of the chapte... tabs is actually chapters.tex or something? Unlikely given the context of a thesis.\nIs it possible that ch... is chapter1.tex? Yes.
So, counting the tabs that are likely chapter files:
chapte...
chapte...
chapte...
chapte...
ch...
Total = 5.
Let’s verify the tab count again.\nLeft side: Structure panel.\nTop bar:
chapte... (1)
chapte... (2)
thesis... (3)
chapte... (4)
chapte... (5)
ch... (6)
Wait, looking very closely at crop 1 and 2.\nCrop 1 shows the file tree.\nCrop 2 shows the top tabs.\nTabs visible:
chapte...
chapte...
thesis...
chapte...
chapte...
ch... (This is visible in the main image, just before the < > arrows).
So there are 5 tabs that start with chapte or ch.\nThe tab thesis... is likely the main file.\nSo the answer is 5.
Let me reconsider if thesis... could be a chapter file.\nIn the file tree, there is thesis.tex at the very top.\nThere is thesis-info inside BIBLIOGRAPHY? No, inside thesis.tex structure?\nActually, under thesis.tex in the structure panel:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Preamble/preamble
thesis-info
Dedication/dedication\n…\nSo thesis-info is a section or input file.\nBut the tab says thesis.... It’s most likely thesis.tex.\nThe code shown in the editor has %!TEX root = ./thesis.tex. This comment is typically placed in a sub-file (like a chapter file) to tell the editor where the main file is for compilation. This confirms the active file (which corresponds to one of the tabs) is a sub-file, i.e., a chapter file.\nThe active tab seems to be the 4th or 5th one? No, the active tab is usually highlighted.\nIn the screenshot, the tab chapte... (the 4th one? or 5th?) seems to be the one active?\nActually, the code shown is for “First Chapter”.\nThe tab corresponding to the active file is likely one of the chapte... tabs.
Let’s count again.\nTabs:
chapte...
chapte...
thesis...
chapte...
chapte...
ch...
That is 5 tabs starting with “chapte” or “ch”.\nSo the minimum number of chapter files opened is 5.
Wait, is it possible that ch... is chapter...? Yes.\nIs it possible that thesis... is a chapter file? No, thesis.tex is the root.\nSo the answer is 5.
Let me check if I missed any tabs.\nBetween thesis... and the right side.\nthesis..., chapte..., chapte..., ch....\nYes, that’s 3 tabs to the right of thesis....\nAnd 2 tabs to the left of thesis....\nTotal chapte... tabs = 2 + 3 = 5.
So the answer is 5.\n</think>
The user wants to know the minimum number of chapter .tex files opened.\nLooking at the tab bar at the top of the editor window:
There is a tab chapte...
There is a tab chapte...
There is a tab thesis... (This is likely the main thesis.tex file, especially since the code contains %!TEX root = ./thesis.tex).
There is a tab chapte...
There is a tab chapte...
There is a tab ch... (visible just before the navigation arrows < >).
Excluding the thesis... tab, there are 5 tabs that start with “chapte” or “ch”, which correspond to chapter files (e.g., chapter1.tex, chapter2.tex, etc., as seen in the file structure on the left).
Therefore, the minimum number of chapter .tex files opened is 5.
With a major leap in multilingual capabilities, Qwen3.5 now supports over 200 languages. This update prioritizes the expansion of low-resource languages. Through this broader linguistic scope, Qwen3.5 is dedicated to fostering global AI equity.
Feel free to cite the following article if you find Qwen3.5 helpful:
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Today, we are officially releasing Qwen 3.8-Max, the most capable model in the Qwen family to date. This also marks the first time we will open-source the weights of a Qwen-Max-class model — the open weights will be released next week. Built upon the architectural foundation of Qwen 3.5, Qwen 3.8-Max scales to 2.4 trillion parameters, delivering comprehensive improvements across coding, work, research, and long-horizon tasks. It can not only answer more challenging questions, but also complete complex tasks end-to-end with greater reliability, producing dependable deliverables.
For a top model, coding today means far more than writing a function on request — it means taking a real, multi-day project from an empty folder all the way to a finished result, on its own. We tested Qwen3.8-Max on three such challenges, where every result had to be earned by actually writing and running code, with no human help at all. One thread runs through all three: Qwen3.8-Max doesn’t just follow a fixed plan — it self-evolves through feedback loops, whether that means building a harness that upgrades itself, refining a research method experiment after experiment, or climbing a competition leaderboard submission after submission.
10+ Days of Autonomous Coding: Building a Self-Evolving Harness#
In this case, Qwen3.8-Max was asked to create the oh-my-cli project from scratch and, over a 10+ day long-horizon autonomous coding run, build a self-evolving harness. It brings user feedback, advanced community practices, and the model’s own self-test results into one engineering loop: requirements are normalized into issues, automatically claimed and executed by agents, and continuously iterated through code, tests, previews, and logs. The complete project trace is publicly available in the GitHub repository qwen-code-dev-bot/oh-my-cli.
Key implementation details in the autonomous coding harness:
Loop Engineering Setup: task state, dispatch, and recovery. Qwen3.8-Max combines an issue state machine, dispatcher, monitor, and watchdog into one execution loop: after a new requirement enters GitHub Issues, an agent claims it through the state machine and moves through ready → leased → active; once implementation is complete, E2E tests and CI checks are triggered, and the PR is merged after passing.
Self-testing: product self-testing and maintenance. After each update, the model triggers Build, Unit Test, E2E, and Desktop Lifecycle validation; abnormal states are routed back to the relevant issue / PR for fixes and re-verification.
Multi-source Evolution: product upgrades from multiple demand signals. By converting community experience and user / developer feedback into executable work, the harness continuously evolves /goal, /resume, Dynamic Workflow, Session Replay, Desktop, and other capabilities.
As of July 30, 2026, after approximately 16 days of fully autonomous AI operation, the repository had accumulated 265 commits, 127 PRs, and 151 issues, demonstrating a continuously evolving autonomous coding capability.
Video 1. In a 10+ day long-horizon autonomous coding run, Qwen3.8-Max autonomously builds a self-evolving harness, continuously completing community requirement collection, issue dispatch, code generation, verification, and self-repair.
We handed Qwen3.8-Max a recent research paper — “Unified Data Selection for LLM Reasoning” — and asked it to: reproduce the paper’s experiment in code, then try to do better. The paper tackles a very practical question in AI training: when you have far more data than you can afford to train on, which examples are actually worth keeping? The paper’s answer is to prize the examples full of “hard decision points” — the moments in a worked solution where the model was genuinely unsure which way to go next.
The catch: Qwen3.8-Max started from nothing but the paper and a set of GPUs — no starter code, no ready-made pipeline. The data-processing scripts, the training code, the evaluation setup — it had to design and write all of it from scratch, exactly the kind of work that takes skilled engineers days.
Working completely on its own for about five days (~125 hours of continuous effort), Qwen3.8-Max wrote roughly 7,600 lines of code, took over 1,100 actions, and ran 33 rounds of GPU training. It first spent ~37 hours rebuilding the paper’s full pipeline from zero and reproduced its six main findings — repeatedly fine-tuning a Qwen3-8B model on the data it selected and confirming the gains on hard math benchmarks (for instance, the paper’s selection method beats picking data at random by +7.7% on AIME24).
Then it went further, turning reproduction into self-evolution. Over the next ~88 hours it ran a self-improving research loop — form a hypothesis → write the code → run it on GPUs → analyze → try again — inventing and testing 18 improvement ideas of its own across four rounds. Each round’s results fed the next round’s hypotheses, and by diagnosing what went wrong with each attempt it finally evolved a new method that beats the paper’s own approach, a +2.7-point gain on the competition-level math benchmark AIME24.
How the improvement search unfolded — 4 rounds, 18 ideas
Next we entered Qwen3.8-Max into a real online contest — the WWW2025 Multimodal Dialogue Intent Recognition Challenge, hosted on Alibaba Cloud’s Tianchi platform, where 526 human teams were competing. The task: read customer-service chats — both the text and the screenshots — and correctly work out what the customer wants.
Working entirely on its own and under a strict 24-hour time limit, Qwen3.8-Max read the competition rules and built a full solution in code. For the text side, it fine-tuned and ensembled several Chinese language models — BERT, MacBERT, and RoBERTa; for the product screenshots, it fine-tuned a vision-language model, Qwen2.5-VL-7B, backed by a Chinese-CLIP model for images its main model was unsure about. It then fused all of them into a single weighted-voting system, calibrating how much each model’s vote should count through cross-validation and adding extra image voters to break ties. Across 45 submissions — each round’s feedback steering the next round of fine-tuning and re-weighting — its accuracy climbed steadily from 0.60 to a final 0.853, beating 458 of the 526 human teams (87% of the field).
Together, these three cases show what makes Qwen3.8-Max stand out: it can stay focused on a hard, open-ended goal for days, come up with its own ideas, and turn them into working results — all without a human in the loop.
Alongside coding, real work - the messy, multi-step, tool-heavy tasks that fill the working day in nearly every profession - is the other main track where frontier models create enormous economic value. Making Qwen3.8-Max broadly competent and reliably robust across these workflows is therefore central to our mission.
Scaling Real-World RL Systems. By jointly scaling RL environments and compute, we lift general working competence uniformly across several popular harnesses (QwenWork / Claude Code / Codex / OpenClaw / Hermes). Achieving this required addressing three coupled challenges:
Continuously scaling decoupled real environments along independent axes — Task (single-task → multi-task → multi-day), Workspace (multi-file → hierarchical folders → complex heterogeneous folders), and Harness (category, version, skills) — so environment growth compounds combinatorially rather than requiring bespoke integration.
A Universal Reward System that internalizes heterogeneous verification — spanning execution-based checking, rubric-conditioned adjudication over text and rendered visual output, and agentic inspection — under automatically scalable rubrics. By unifying these modalities within one reward system, it provides a coherent and reliable source of reward across all environments, eliminating the inconsistency inherent in maintaining task-specific verifiers.
An online data balancer that shapes every batch to keep its distribution over tasks, difficulty, workspaces, and harnesses highly balanced, suppressing inter-batch gradient variance and thereby sustaining stable, continued scaling of RL compute.
Together these supply breadth, reliable reward, and stability — turning joint environment-and-compute scale into a measurable, horizontal lift in real-world working ability.
Fig 1. Qwen3.8-Max shows steady, consistent gains across dozens of in-house and public working benchmarks as RL training continues to scale up.
Fig 2. Qwen3.8-Max achieves comparable performance across many harnesses, including QwenWork, Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and Hermes.
Testing the Breadth of Working Ability Across Hundreds of High-Value Professions#
As frontier models take on an ever-widening role in economically valuable work, we stress-tested the breadth of Qwen3.8-Max’s ability to deliver production-quality results in real workflows — spanning high-frequency tasks across several hundred high-economic-value professions. A few representative showcases:
Corporate compliance counsel — Qwen3.8-Max surfaced 1,284 relevant clauses across a corpus of hundreds of documents in a single pass, completing the full review in under an hour. Such a review typically takes a paralegal team working collaboratively for around a week.
UI/UX designer — Qwen3.8-Max produced a high-fidelity, interactive prototype for the digital-banking app NOVA — 8 screens with a consistent design system, delivered in one shot with zero rounds of human revision, versus 3–5 rounds of revision in a conventional workflow.
Restaurant brand founder — Qwen3.8-Max read through over a hundred ingredient-supply briefs and produced a complete 26-dish menu in one pass. Each dish is annotated with its average caloric value and ingredient provenance, with the food-cost ratio held at 33.8%. Such menu development would normally require a head chef and operations team weeks of iterative recipe testing, costing, and refinement.
Structural engineer — From a single set of drawings, Qwen3.8-Max reconstructed the seismic structural model of a 30-story office tower in the browser, with natural period, base shear, and inter-story drift ratio all available for real-time inspection on hover. In a traditional workflow, an engineer would need to build the model manually in specialized modeling software, typically taking over a week.
Rehabilitation therapist — Qwen3.8-Max turned a 2D paper assessment form into a 3D interactive demo with freely rotatable viewing angles and layer-by-layer anatomical overlays, letting patients see exactly where the injury sits and how recovery progresses — work previously outsourced to a medical-animation studio at 2–4 weeks’ lead time and thousands of dollars in cost.
Sports data analyst — Qwen3.8-Max parsed ~8,400 offensive/defensive possessions per player into a ready-to-use player tactical profile and coaching report in tens of minutes. A traditional analytics team would need to manually complete tactical segmentation, causal attribution, and report writing — a process typically spanning several working days.
Video 1. Across hundreds of high-value professions, Qwen3.8-Max measurably boosts human productivity in real workflows — showcasing the breadth of its working ability.
Building a Profitable End-to-End Quant Strategy in a Single Session#
Powered by its Dynamic Workflows construction capability, Qwen3.8-Max drives task planning programmatically and orchestrates large-scale sub-agent systems with precision — turning a single conversation into an end-to-end, automated quant-research loop.
Depth — end-to-end ETF-rotation strategy R&D. From a one-line task description, Qwen3.8-Max autonomously planned a complex dynamic workflow and worked for hours to deliver a complete ETF-rotation strategy — building the data system, constructing base factors, and orchestrating multi-round greedy iteration, all while dynamically analyzing backtests and correcting course. Throughout, it acted on evidence instead of a fixed script:
When it observed misalignment between design-period metrics and validation-period metrics — a classic overfitting signal — it automatically triggered pruning, removing redundant factors round by round.
When it found multiple paths converging on the same set of core signals, it added multi-seed union validation to eliminate path dependence.
When it judged that three-model ensembling was less robust than fixed-direction synthesis on small cross-sections, it autonomously switched to a more suitable strategy framework.
Breadth — massively parallel factor mining. Factor research entails a vast search space, and traditional workflows remain serial. Qwen3.8-Max parallelized the process: from just six short descriptions spanning the classic factor families of momentum, value, quality, investment, low-risk, and sentiment, it decomposed each into 50 research directions, dispatched ~330 sub-agents, completed ~6,000 backtests, and continuously adapted the workflow mid-run. The selected factors achieved excess Sharpe ratios of 0.64–1.48, with IC uniformly positive, ranging from 0.010 to 0.014.
From coherent single-track R&D to parallel exploration of a huge hypothesis space, Qwen3.8-Max leverages Dynamic Workflows to freeze orchestration logic into reproducible programs — compressing quant research that once took researchers weeks to months of serial work into a scalable, automated loop delivered within a single conversation, demonstrating the model’s broad potential for long-horizon autonomous work.
Video 2. Qwen3.8-Max promises to put a quant researcher's expertise within everyone's reach — showcasing the depth of its working ability.
When tackling highly complex, long-horizon, and multi-constraint tasks, Qwen3.8-Max demonstrates exceptional system-level autonomous planning and end-to-end closed-loop adaptive learning. Whether navigating stringent physical constraints in digital chip design or highly competitive, strategic business simulations, the model achieves deep algorithmic and strategic refactoring across thousands of rounds of interaction via an action-feedback-iteration loop.
Autonomous Chip Design and Closed-Loop Feedback-Driven Optimization#
Qwen3.8-Max has independently achieved the autonomous execution of the entire silicon design flow, spanning logic restructuring, multi-constraint optimization, and physical layout generation. The target design is a GCD / RSA cryptographic hardware accelerator that integrates modular exponentiation and modular multiplication. Built on a GCD datapath and control path, this block represents a typically compact yet logic-dense digital circuit. Under a randomized cocotb verification framework, the model must maintain bit-exact functional correctness across 4-, 6-, 8-, and 16-bit configurations while minimizing the synthesized gate count (Yosys cell count)—a direct addressing of the classic trade-off between area and correctness in front-end hardware design. Area performance is evaluated based on the 16-bit (WIDTH = 16) configuration.
Qwen3.8-Max optimized this design within a sandboxed environment integrated with simulation (Iverilog), synthesis (Yosys), and physical design (OpenROAD) toolchains. Starting with minimal inputs—a basic task description, a stub RTL workspace with empty module templates, and an evaluation script for verification and synthesis—Qwen3.8-Max operated completely autonomously. Without any golden reference designs or human intervention, the model independently executed the entire process from high-level algorithmic architecture design to RTL code generation and multi-round iterative refinement.
Over a single continuous autonomous run, Qwen3.8-Max completed approximately 500 turns and 71 evaluations across 13 key milestones, executing an end-to-end restructure of the design. The model autonomously managed RTL editing, simulation debugging, synthesis analysis, redundancy localization, and iterative datapath re-architecting—advancing from initial bug-fixing to deep, algorithm-level rewrites. While its first functionally viable design measured 8,298 gates, Qwen3.8-Max drove this down to 678 gates, leading all evaluated models. This trajectory demonstrates that Qwen3.8-Max is capable of major structural breakthroughs even hundreds of turns into a run, rather than plateauing after early, low-hanging gains.
Key Design Milestones Along the Trajectory:\n(The evolution records preserve the complete circuit topology and the corresponding code diff details at each stage)
Algorithmic Rewrite: Modulo divider to iterative shift-subtract (8,298 → 2,010 gates, Turn 22)\nThe single largest optimization step. Qwen3.8-Max replaced the expensive 16-bit hardware modulo divider in modular_multiplier with an iterative shift-subtract architecture, slashing 6,288 gates in one move—accounting for over 80% of the total area reduction.
Redundancy Elimination & Bitwidth Trimming (2,010 → 1,304 gates, Turns 35–48)\nRecognizing the caller’s pre-conditions, the model safely bypassed the entire REDUCE stage, merged two independent reduction modules into a single shared block, optimized the output path to combinational logic, and narrowed the bitwidth of the internal register k_ff.
Register & Control FSM Pruning (1,304 → 907 gates, Turns 60–113)\nThe model removed redundant base and mod registers as well as the k_nz flip-flop, introduced an early-exit mechanism for even numbers, utilized the subtractor’s most significant bit (MSB) as the comparator, and merged the separate “compare-then-subtract” logic in the GCD module into a single, reusable subtractor.
Module Fusion & Logic Sharing (907 → 765 gates, Turns 170–252)\nDissolving module boundaries, the model inlined the multiplier directly into the modular exponentiation finite state machine (FSM), merged three sub-modules, and shared a single subtractor globally, thereby eliminating cross-module redundant interfaces and duplicated logic.
Gate-Level Refinement (765 → 678 gates, Turns 443–500)\nUtilizing local optimizations such as a shared NOR-gate tree, absolute-difference subtraction splitting (abs-sub splitting), and byte-to-bit selection logic, the model squeezed out the final gate-level redundancies.
To verify whether front-end optimizations translate to physical implementation, Qwen3.8-Max ran the RTL design through a standard place-and-route (PR) flow using OpenROAD (Nangate45 PDK) to generate a physical silicon layout. In the physical layout representation, each chip demonstrates the actual routing results: standard cells are laid out on the physical plane of the die, with metal routing layers stacked above (each layer color-coded and connected by vertical vias). The starting design occupied a 106×106 µm² die with a total wirelength of 33,369 µm and severe timing violations (a negative slack of -4.46 ns). The final layout shrank to a 46×46 µm² die, with wirelength dropping to 4,187 µm, and successfully achieved timing closure at 500 MHz (+0.66 ns Slack). This represents an 81% reduction in physical die area, proving that high-level front-end architectural optimizations translate directly into highly compact, routable, and performant silicon implementation.
This case highlights two pivotal capabilities of Qwen3.8-Max as a foundational model for autonomous, long-horizon hardware agents:
Long-horizon Sustained Optimization: The model maintains a highly coherent, systematic strategy over hundreds of complex interaction turns, driving deep into algorithmic-level datapath rewrites rather than stalling at superficial syntax adjustments.
Feedback-driven Closed-loop Improvement: In the absence of prior reference designs, the model relies entirely on an “edit-simulate-synthesize-layout” feedback loop to drive optimization. Each design iteration is strictly validated through automated cocotb functional tests, with physical feasibility fully guaranteed by OpenROAD backend validation.
E-Commerce Bench is a 365-day long-cycle e-commerce operation simulation benchmark, designed to evaluate large language models’ business decision-making capabilities in sustained operational scenarios. Built on real, desensitized transaction data from Taobao and Tmall, this benchmark deeply replicates a complex ecosystem comprising 12 store types, 60 product categories, nearly 600 suppliers, and 7,000 products. The model is given ¥100,000 in starting capital to simultaneously operate multiple online stores. Throughout the year, it must contend with seasonal demand swings, sudden environmental events, and cash flow pressures from a highly realistic e-commerce settlement system. The model must autonomously make full-chain decisions, including product selection, supply chain negotiation, inventory management, dynamic pricing, and returns handling, with the ultimate goal of maximizing total balance by year-end. This also tests the model’s capital allocation strategy throughout the year. It must know when to invest proactively for growth. Just as importantly, it must convert inventory and operating gains into cash before the cycle ends. Otherwise, unconverted assets left on the books can hurt the final results.
In price negotiations, the benchmark introduces a supplier matrix, driven by game theory principles, where each supplier possesses distinct personality traits and concession strategies. This requires the model to negotiate through multi-round natural language interactions. Qwen3.8-Max demonstrated continuous learning capability in negotiations. It conducted deep probing on the same products from the same suppliers, achieving progressive reductions in procurement prices and steady increases in profit round by round. This caused the negotiation efficiency (represented by the area in the radar chart) to continuously expand over time. Moreover, it effectively generalized this negotiation experience to similar products, while other models’ negotiation efficiency generally hit a plateau in the mid-term.
Additionally, the model had to navigate hidden risks beneath the surface and complex market rhythms. Within the matrix of nearly 600 suppliers, the benchmark covertly embedded 152 fraudulent merchants, encompassing classic scam patterns such as “membership fee traps,” “low-price bait,” and “goods not as described.” This comprehensively tested the model’s risk control capabilities. At the same time, the pressure of surging orders during annual major promotions intertwined with random supply chain crises, like typhoons and material shortages, pushing the model’s stocking rhythm and crisis management abilities to the limit. Against this backdrop, Qwen3.8-Max exhibited exceptional forward-looking planning capability. It invested the most capital in the earliest stage of operations to establish its position, which accelerated its subsequent asset growth curve. It also achieved a net profit exceeding ¥100,000 during the year-end major promotion period—nearly 2.4 times that of the second-place GLM 5.2.
Qwen3.8-Max ultimately achieved the highest total balance of ¥416,252 (a 4.16x return), surpassing the second-place GLM 5.2 by 38%. This also represents a 152% improvement over its previous flagship generation, Qwen3.7-Max. These results demonstrate that Qwen3.8-Max possesses advantages in long-horizon coherent decision-making. Furthermore, it has the ability to adaptively learn from transactional feedback, continuously iterating and evolving across more than 2,000 rounds of interaction, rather than rigidly adhering to strategies learned early on.
From everything it sees to everything it does, Qwen3.8-Max is not merely capable of understanding images, documents, and videos. It delivers visual intelligence that runs through the entire task lifecycle.
When working with financial reports and complex PDFs spanning more than 200 pages, Qwen3.8-Max can understand text, charts, and document layouts across pages, extract key insights from large volumes of information, and turn them into structured reports or production-ready web experiences. When processing videos longer than 100 hours, it can do more than locate specific moments and answer detailed questions. It can organize people, events, timestamps, and scenes into a video memory graph, continuously building connections across long time spans to reconstruct event progressions, character relationships, and critical moments.
Whether the input is a hundreds-page document, a complete TV series, or a 100-hour livestream, information that would otherwise be difficult to consume can be transformed into a searchable, traceable, and interactive knowledge structure.
Beyond understanding, Qwen3.8-Max can carry out real visual production tasks. It can edit personal footage into a vlog, turn a question into an immersive educational animation, reconstruct a complete frontend project from a single interface screenshot, transform a floor plan into a Blender-based 3D interior visualization, and develop interactive games and applications from a natural-language request.
More importantly, vision is not limited to the input stage. During execution, Qwen3.8-Max continuously observes and evaluates its own intermediate results. It can inspect page layouts, object orientations, spatial relationships, animation quality, and interaction outcomes. When it detects issues—such as a television facing the wrong direction, a misaligned interface, or a visual result that does not match the intended design—it can identify the deviation, revise its plan, and correct the output autonomously.
This means vision is no longer simply another modality that an agent uses to understand input. It becomes a native feedback loop across planning, execution, verification, and iteration. The model generates while observing, acts while reviewing, and repeatedly examines the result, identifies problems, and improves its work. This visual feedback loop moves an agent beyond merely completing a task toward completing it well.
Qwen3.8-Max is helping multimodal agents evolve from understanding the world to continuously acting and creating within it through vision.
In the digital world, finishing a complex task on its own often takes two things at once: writing code to implement the underlying logic, and operating the interface by hand to drive the task and observe the result. This Hybrid Agent capability — the pairing of coding and GUI operation — makes the two channels complementary: coding does the heavy lifting efficiently and at scale, while GUI operation reaches whatever a human can see and touch and, just as importantly, feeds back what actually happens in a live system — extending the visual feedback loop above from inspecting its own output to verifying against a real, running application.
To measure this, we introduce RecreationBench, a long-horizon application-recreation benchmark spanning five platforms — desktop (Ubuntu, macOS, Windows), mobile (Android), and web. The model may observe a real, running application only as a black box — no source code, no internet access — making sense of it purely through interaction and feedback, then rebuilding the whole application from scratch. Here Qwen3.8-Max already demonstrates frontier-level Hybrid Agent capability, converging on the original step by step through repeated cycles of iterative coding and interactive feedback.
To make these capabilities easier to integrate into existing agent systems, we are also introducing Qwen-MM-Plugins. It is a harness extension library designed for multimodal agents, providing agent frameworks with image and video processing, multimodal memory, dynamic-resolution support, visual tool use, and specialized capabilities for tasks such as video editing, Blender, and CAD. With Qwen-MM-Plugins, any existing agent harness can be extended into a more naturally multimodal-native system.
The most honest take on Qwen3.8-Max comes from people who actually put it to work. Top-tier agent platforms, leading open-source algorithm teams, professional firms in law, finance, and manufacturing, scrappy startups, solo developers, and academic researchers — all of them keep handing it their most complex, mission-critical, and long-horizon tasks.
Enterprises use it to stand up large-scale agent systems. Knowledge workers dump their images, manuscripts, and video on it, and get everything processed. Developers hand it their heaviest engineering tasks outright. Research teams run the loop of literature, data, and simulation end to end. One model, reached for so often across such different work that it becomes indispensable. The verdict is the same: Qwen3.8-Max drives long, autonomous task chains and turns out ship-ready results in a single pass.
1. Fable5 results may involve fallbacks. 2. Terminal Bench 2.1: Evaluated with Claude Code (avg@10), using a 5-hour timeout and max_tokens=131,072. For all other models, we report the best published score across harnesses: Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Fable 5 with Terminus 2 from Artificial Analysis (https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/terminalbench-v2-1); GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex (https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/). 3. SWE-bench Pro: Evaluated with the Claude Code harness, temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, and a 256K context window. Problematic tasks corrected and all baselines evaluated on the refined benchmark. 4. DeepSWE 1.1: Evaluated with the Claude Code and mini-SWE-agent harnesses, temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, and a 256K context window. We report the highest score among both harnesses; notably, Qwen3.8-Max performs best on Claude Code. 5. NL2Repo-Bench: Evaluated with the Claude Code harness. To prevent reward hacking, we disable Bash commands that attempt to access the specific repository, such as pip download, pip install, and git clone. 6. FrontierSWE: Evaluated with the Claude Code harness. All other available MEAN@5 results are taken from the official FrontierSWE leaderboard (https://www.frontierswe.com) as of August 3, 2026. Dominance scores are recomputed from the raw scores using the official evaluation script. \"--\" indicates that no official MEAN@5 result was available as of that date. 7. MLS-Bench-Lite: Evaluated with Claude Code using a 5-hour timeout and max_tokens=131,072. All other model scores are taken from the official leaderboard. 8. PaperBench: Evaluated in the BasicAgent setting under Code-Dev mode, judged by Claude Opus 4.6, and averaged over 3 runs (max 12 hours per run). 9. AndroidBench: Evaluated on the 95-task public subset, reporting avg@3 scores. 10. QwenSWEBench: Inhouse coding benchmark to evaluate models' software engineering capabilities. Evaluated with the Claude Code harness. Reporting avg@3 with an 8-hour timeout, max_tokens=32,768, temperature=1.0, and a 256K-token context window. 11. QwenQoderBench: Inhouse coding benchmark to evaluate user experience on Qoder. Evaluated with the Claude Code harness. Reporting avg@5 with a 6-hour timeout, max_tokens=32,768, temperature=1.0, and a 256K-token context window. 12. QwenReactBench: Inhouse React project building benchmark using Claude Code as the harness, bilingual (EN/CN), 7 categories; auto-render + multimodal judge; BT/Elo rating. 13. QwenSVGBench: Inhouse SVG code generation benchmark; bilingual (EN/CN), auto-render + multimodal judge; BT/Elo rating. 14. CoWorkBench: Inhouse cowork benchmark for evaluating long-horizon tasks across computer science, finance, law, medical, and other productivity domains. 15. SkillsBench: Evaluated on the public SkillsBench v1.1 benchmark across 87 tasks, reporting the average score over three runs per task. Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 are evaluated on Claude Code; GPT-5.6 Sol is evaluated on Codex; the Qwen-series are evaluated on OpenCode. All results are from our own testing. 16. Automation-Bench: Evaluated on the 600-task public subset. 17. WideSearch: Evaluated with the Claude Code harness for external models and the Qwen-Agent harness for ours, reporting the average item-F1 over four runs. 18. $OneMillion-Bench: Evaluated using gemini-3.1-pro-preview. 19. PLawBench: Evaluated using gemini-3.1-pro-preview. 20. Empty cells (--): Scores are not yet available or are not applicable.
Opus4.8
Fable5
Gemini3.1-Pro
GPT5.6-Sol
Qwen3.7-Plus
Qwen3.8-Max
Multimodal Reasoning
MMMU-Pro
75.6
81.2
80.5
83.0
79.0
82.3
MathVision
87.1 / 97.1
92.7 / 98.6
87.4 / 95.7
90.8 / 97.8
90.3 / --
95.2 / 97.7
BabyVision
28.4 / 81.2
42.5 / 90.5
55.9 / 68.3
65.5 / 88.9
64.7 / 70.4
82.0 / 91.3
HLE-VL (w/ Tools)
--
--
43.9
51.2
25.6
52.2
ZeroBench (Pass@5)
17.0 / 34.0
20.0 / 46.0
17.0 / 23.0
22.0 / 35.0
19.0 / 19.0
24.0 / 49.0
ZeroBench-Sub
31.1
37.1
36.5
46.7
41.0
48.5
LogicVista
76.7
85.7
82.6
89.7
84.3
91.9
HiPhO
69.3
78.6
85.4
86.8
84.1
90.0
PhyX
54.2
71.7
79.4
79.1
80.0
83.5
SLAKE
75.9
86.6
82.9
85.1
83.2
90.8
MedXpertQA-MM
71.7
80.0
80.7
81.5
71.0
80.4
PMC-VQA
59.2
63.2
62.5
62.3
63.4
66.2
Visual Agent & Coding
OSWorld-Verified
83.4
85.0
76.2
83.2
73.3
86.1
OSWorld 2.0
20.6 / 54.8
-- / 66.1
7.8 / 30.6
-- / 62.6
2.8 / 21.5
19.4 / 46.7
ScreenSpot Pro
82.3
87.3
68.1
81.3
79.0
84.5
WebArena-Verified
67.9
71.3
64.3
69.7
55.3
66.8
AndroidWorld
75.0
88.8
70.7
77.6
81.0
85.3
MobileWorld
67.5
85.5
58.1
76.9
51.2
77.8
ClawEval-MM
73.3 / 73.8
81.2 / 77.5
50.5 / 55.2
81.2 / 78.9
57.4 / 60.1
77.2 / 74.8
Vision2Web
62.4
70.5
--
62.1
42.1
69.0
QwenBlenderBench
62.4
69.5
23.0
68.6
41.5
69.9
Parametric CAD Bench
85.1
87.5
73.5
86.2
73.8
91.5
RecreationBench
48.0
56.1
16.2
47.6
30.2
51.7
PresentBench
80.9
79.8
55.4
82.9
65.7
79.6
Document & Office Intelligence
CharXiv (RQ)
78.5 / 89.9
87.9 / 93.5
84.4 / 89.9
85.1 / 89.1
85.8 / 85.9
88.4 / 93.5
OmniDocBench 1.5
86.5
89.5
90.0
86.7
91.4
92.1
OCR-Bench-V2 (EN/ZH)
53.9 / 55.3
65.3 / 58.1
64.6 / 58.2
69.0 / 57.3
70.7 / 67.1
74.2 / 68.3
CC-OCR-Bench-V2
60.3
72.4
68.9
68.0
72.7
79.6
MTVQA-Test
48.1
41.6
54.3
52.7
51.2
56.6
MADQA
86.8
86.0
81.1
87.8
87.1
91.8
QwenVisualOffice
34.5
32.4
39.6
29.5
32.4
44.6
Real-World & Spatial Understanding
RealWorldQA
76.6
85.9
83.5
83.7
86.9
88.0
ERQA
57.2
70.0
68.0
70.0
69.8
77.8
LingoQA
73.8
77.4
66.8
72.6
83.4
84.8
SURDS
62.2
79.4
64.0
63.0
77.2
77.8
Visual Perception & Grounding
SimpleVQA
67.3
73.4
73.1
66.6
70.3
75.0
WorldVQA
33.9
53.5
54.0
45.1
43.9
53.2
MMStar
76.7
80.5
84.0
82.5
83.2
85.9
PerceptionBench
47.2
57.2
56.2
59.7
51.1
63.5
CountQA
41.3
63.1
72.8
68.6
77.0
82.4
RefAdv-S
61.7
68.6
71.9
69.2
73.0
80.2
Dense200
20.8
31.1
69.7
55.3
60.7
87.0
COCO
50.7
56.4
72.4
61.2
74.2
78.7
VisFactor
30.1
54.5
39.8
62.8
42.8
60.8
VLMsAreBiased
43.8
61.2
74.1
59.8
36.6
88.3
Video Intelligence & Agents
VideoMME (w/ Sub.)
85.4
--
86.7
89.5
88.0
90.4
VideoMME v2 (w/ Sub.)
49.0
52.2
66.9
71.1
59.7
68.3
VideoMMMU
75.3
81.2
85.3
85.0
85.4
88.7
MMVU
67.4
72.0
77.9
81.2
76.6
82.4
MLVU (M-Avg)
53.4
--
84.7
87.6
87.4
90.8
TVBench
61.5
--
73.0
83.2
78.2
81.9
LVBench
67.3
--
75.1
78.8
76.2
81.8
LVBench (w/ Mem.)
84.3
90.1
--
84.2
74.5
85.6
EgoLife (w/ Mem.)
78.3
82.3
--
70.8
68.8
80.3
VideoDR (w/ Search)
65.6
77.1
--
71.3
41.0
73.2
1. MathVision, BabyVision, CharXiv (RQ), and ZeroBench: Scores are reported as “without CI / with CI.” A small number of incorrect ground-truth annotations in MathVision and CharXiv (RQ) were corrected following manual verification. 2. MathVision: Our model is evaluated using a fixed prompt, e.g., “Please reason step by step, and put your final answer within \\boxed{}.” For other models, we report the higher score obtained from runs with and without the \\boxed{} formatting requirement. 3. MMMU-Pro: Results for Gemini3.1-Pro and GPT5.6-Sol are taken from official model reports or system cards. All other models are evaluated in-house. 4. ClawEval-MM: Scores are reported as “Pass@3 / average score.” Pass@3 measures the percentage passed in at least one of the three trials, and average score is the mean score across the three trials. 5. Vision2Web: Scores are averaged across the frontend, webpage, and website categories, using the Claude Code harness and gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 as the judge. 6. HLE-VL (w/ Tools): Scores are evaluated with tool use, including both Code Interpreter (CI) and Search. Scores for the tool-enabled versions of Gemini3.1-Pro and GPT5.6-Sol are measured end-to-end through their official native tool-calling APIs. 7. OSWorld 2.0: Scores are reported as “binary / partial.” The binary score is the percentage of tasks receiving the full task reward, while the partial score aggregates the partial rewards obtained across all tasks. 8. ScreenSpot Pro: Scores for Opus4.8 and Fable5 are taken from official system cards. The Fable5 results refer to the corresponding Mythos Preview scores. All other models are evaluated in-house. 9. WebArena-Verified: Scores are reported using the official WebArena grader within the OSWorld scaffold. 10. RecreationBench: An internal long-horizon application-recreation benchmark for evaluating hybrid-agent capabilities across five platforms: Ubuntu, macOS, Windows, Android, and the web. 11. PerceptionBench: Scores for comparison models are taken from the benchmark’s official release report, while our model is evaluated in-house. 12. VideoMME (w/ Sub.) and VideoMME v2 (w/ Sub.): Scores are evaluated with subtitles enabled. 13. QwenBlenderBench and QwenVisualOffice: Both are internal benchmarks. 14. LVBench and EgoLife (w/ Mem.): Scores are evaluated using a memory system built with Qwen-MM-Plugins, enabling fine-grained, long-horizon video memory. 15. VideoDR (w/ Search): Scores are evaluated with access to a search tool. 16. Empty cells (--): Scores are not yet available or are not applicable.
Qwen3.8-Max is now available through QwenCloud. You can integrate it with popular agent frameworks and coding assistants. The model weights will be open-sourced on Hugging Face and ModelScope next week — stay tuned.
QwenCloud supports industry-standard protocols, including chat completions and responses APIs compatible with OpenAI’s specification, as well as an API interface compatible with Anthropic.
"""\nEnvironment variables:\n DASHSCOPE_API_KEY: Your API Key from https://home.qwencloud.com/\n DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL: (optional) Base URL for compatible-mode API.\n - Beijing: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - Singapore: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n - US (Virginia): https://dashscope-us.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1\n"""\nfromopenaiimportOpenAI\nimportos\n\napi_key=os.environ.get("DASHSCOPE_API_KEY")\nifnotapi_key:\nraiseValueError(\n"DASHSCOPE_API_KEY is required. "\n"Set it via: export DASHSCOPE_API_KEY='your-api-key'"\n)\n\nclient=OpenAI(\napi_key=api_key,\nbase_url=os.environ.get(\n"DASHSCOPE_BASE_URL",\n"https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",\n),\n)\n\nmessages=[{"role":"user","content":"Write a Python function to merge two sorted linked lists."}]\n\ncompletion=client.chat.completions.create(\nmodel="qwen3.8-max",\nmessages=messages,\nextra_body={\n"enable_thinking":True,\n# "preserve_thinking": True,\n},\nreasoning_effort="xhigh",# supported levels are xhigh, medium, and low\nstream=True,\n)\n\nreasoning_content=""\nanswer_content=""\nis_answering=False\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Reasoning"+"="*20+"\\n")\n\nforchunkincompletion:\nifnotchunk.choices:\nprint("\\nUsage:")\nprint(chunk.usage)\ncontinue\n\ndelta=chunk.choices[0].delta\n\nifhasattr(delta,"reasoning_content")anddelta.reasoning_contentisnotNone:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint(delta.reasoning_content,end="",flush=True)\nreasoning_content+=delta.reasoning_content\n\nifhasattr(delta,"content")anddelta.content:\nifnotis_answering:\nprint("\\n"+"="*20+"Answer"+"="*20+"\\n")\nis_answering=True\nprint(delta.content,end="",flush=True)\nanswer_content+=delta.content\n
Qwen APIs support the OpenAI Responses protocol, enabling use with Codex:
In ~/.codex/model-catalog.local.json
{\n"models":[\n{\n"slug":"qwen3.8-max",\n"display_name":"qwen3.8-max",\n"description":"Model Studio: Qwen3.8-Max",\n"default_reasoning_level":"xhigh",\n"supported_reasoning_levels":[\n{\n"effort":"low",\n"description":"Fast responses with lighter reasoning"\n},\n{\n"effort":"medium",\n"description":"Greater reasoning depth for complex problems"\n},\n{\n"effort":"xhigh",\n"description":"Extra high reasoning depth for complex problems"\n}\n],\n"context_window":1000000,\n"effective_context_window_percent":95,\n"supports_parallel_tool_calls":true,\n"supports_image_detail_original":true,\n"input_modalities":["text","image"],\n"shell_type":"default",\n"visibility":"list",\n"supported_in_api":true,\n"priority":1,\n"base_instructions":"",\n"support_verbosity":false,\n"supports_reasoning_summaries":false,\n"experimental_supported_tools":[],\n"truncation_policy":{\n"mode":"bytes",\n"limit":10000\n}\n}\n]\n}\n
Qwen3.8-Max is our most capable model to date, and the first open-weight model at Max scale. Scaling to 2.4 trillion parameters, it delivers comprehensive gains across coding, real-world work, long-horizon tasks, and multimodal agents — able to take complex, open-ended goals from start to finish with minimal human involvement and produce dependable deliverables. The open weights will be released next week. We welcome community feedback and look forward to seeing what you build.
@misc{qwen38,\ntitle={Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork},\nurl={https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8},\nauthor={{Qwen Team}},\nmonth={August},\nyear={2026}\n}\n
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\nQuestion: Teddy works at Please Forget Meat, a contemporary vegetarian pizza chain in the city of Gridtown, as a deliveryman. Please Forget Meat (PFM) has two convenient locations, marked with “$X$” and “$Y$ ” on the street map of Gridtown shown below. Teddy, who is currently at $X$, needs to deliver an eggplant pizza to $\\nabla$ en route to $Y$ , where he is urgently needed. There is currently construction taking place at $A$, $B$, and $C$, so those three intersections will be completely impassable. How many ways can Teddy get from $X$ to $Y$ while staying on the roads (Traffic tickets are expensive!), not taking paths that are longer than necessary (Gas is expensive!), and that let him pass through $\\nabla$ (Losing a job is expensive!)?
\nFind the shadow that perfectly matches the puppy pattern above.
\nReference box: (234, 0, 137, 172)\nNumber of rows found: 3\nRow 1: [(59, 195), (242, 195), (424, 195)]\nRow 2: [(60, 378), (242, 369), (424, 369)]\nRow 3: [(59, 544), (242, 546), (424, 546)]\nScores: [((1, 1), 0.9165560716655607), ((1, 2), 0.9268617021276596), ((1, 3), 0.950050454086781), ((2, 1), 0.5300538701445988), ((2, 2), 0.9076158940397351), ((2, 3), 0.9250420168067227), ((3, 1), 0.8811154598825832), ((3, 2), 0.9370816599732262), ((3, 3), 0.9149950674120355)]\nBest match: Row 1, Column 3 with score 0.950050454086781
\nFind the pattern that is different from the others in the image.
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\nNumber of detected centers: 6\nCenters: [(159, 116), (69, 116), (205, 70), (114, 70), (23, 70), (69, 25)]
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