GPT-4.1 vs Qwen2.5-Omni-7B

GPT-4.1

OpenAI

GPT-4.1, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a large language model from the GPT-4 family optimized for coding, precise instruction following, and long-context tasks. It features a 1M token context window and native image understanding, with improved performance on tool-calling and web development benchmarks compared to GPT-4o. GPT-4.1 targets software development workflows, long-document analysis, and applications requiring accurate, instruction-adherent outputs.

Alibaba / Qwen

Qwen2.5-Omni-7B is a 7-billion-parameter end-to-end multimodal model from Alibaba, released in March 2025 as part of the Omni series designed to unify perception and generation across text, images, audio, and video in a single model architecture. Unlike pipeline-based multimodal systems, it processes all modalities end-to-end and can generate both text and speech outputs, targeting use cases in voice assistants, multimodal agents, and real-time interactive applications. Its compact size made it notable for on-device and resource-constrained multimodal deployments.