QvQ-72B-Preview vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

QvQ-72B-Preview

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

QVQ-72B Preview was introduced as an experimental visual question answering model, designed to combine vision and language understanding for complex reasoning tasks. Built to demonstrate advanced multimodal reasoning capabilities, it represents Qwen's exploration into models that can analyze and reason about visual information.

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.