Phi-4-multimodal-instruct vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

Microsoft

Phi-4 Multimodal was created to handle multiple input modalities including text, images, and potentially other formats. Built to extend Phi-4's efficiency into multimodal applications, it demonstrates that compact models can successfully integrate diverse information types.

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2-VL 72B was developed as a large vision-language model, designed to handle multimodal tasks combining visual and textual understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters for integrated vision and language processing, it enables applications requiring sophisticated analysis of images alongside text.