Phi-4-multimodal-instruct vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

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.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen3-Next 80B Base was introduced as an experimental base model with 80 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to explore advanced mixture-of-experts architectures, it provides a foundation for fine-tuning and research into efficient large-scale model design.