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Compare Alibaba Qwen and Stability AI side by side. Both are tools in the Foundation Models category.
| Category | Foundation Models | Foundation Models |
| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Best For | Developers building AI applications for Chinese and multilingual markets | Creative professionals and developers building visual AI applications |
| Website | qwenlm.github.io | stability.ai |
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Alibaba's Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) is a family of open-source large language models that excel in multilingual tasks, particularly Chinese and English. Qwen models range from 0.5B to 72B+ parameters and include specialized variants for coding (Qwen-Coder), math, and multimodal understanding. Available through Alibaba Cloud and open-source channels, Qwen is one of the most capable model families for Asian language applications.
Stability AI is the company behind Stable Diffusion, the most widely used open-source image generation model. Beyond images, Stability develops language models (StableLM), video generation (Stable Video), audio models, and 3D generation tools. Their open-source approach has spawned a massive ecosystem of fine-tuned models, tools, and applications built by the community.
Companies that train and release their own large language models and foundation models. These organizations invest in large-scale model training, publish research, and offer API access to their proprietary models.
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