Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct vs Skywork-R1V3-38B

Alibaba / Qwen

Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct is a 7-billion-parameter code-specialized model from Alibaba, released in November 2024 as part of the Qwen2.5-Coder family, trained on a curated corpus spanning 92 programming languages with emphasis on code generation, debugging, and fill-in-the-middle completion. Built on the Qwen2.5 architecture, it extends the base series' improvements in instruction-following and long-context handling to coding-specific tasks within a compact deployable footprint. It became popular for integration into IDE extensions, CI pipelines, and self-hosted code assistant tools.

Kunlun Tech

Skywork-R1V3-38B, released by Kunlun Tech's Skywork AI team on July 9, 2025, is a 38 billion parameter multimodal reasoning model built on InternVL-38B with reinforcement learning post-training that enhances both visual and textual reasoning. It uses the GRPO algorithm and cold-start fine-tuning to improve reasoning across image and text modalities. Skywork-R1V3-38B targets open-source multimodal reasoning deployments requiring strong performance across vision-language benchmarks.