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Alibaba Qwen open-sources autonomous driving model

Alibaba's Qwen has open-sourced Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B, a new vision-language model designed for autonomous driving tasks. Built upon the Qwen3.5-4B model, this release includes variants for 3D perception and trajectory planning, making it available on platforms like Hugging Face and GitHub. AI

IMPACT This release provides a new open-source tool for researchers and developers working on autonomous driving perception and planning.

RANK_REASON Open-source release of a specialized AI model. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Alibaba Qwen open-sources autonomous driving model

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  1. Pandaily TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] (Pandaily) ·

    Alibaba Qwen Open-Sources Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B for Autonomous Driving Perception and Planning

    Qwen has released Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B, an Apache 2.0 autonomous-driving vision-language model on a Qwen3.5-4B base with 3D perception and trajectory planning. SFT and RL Planning Expert variants are available on Hugging Face and GitHub.