Skywork-R1V3-38B vs UI-TARS-72B-DPO

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.

ByteDance

UI-TARS-72B-DPO, released by ByteDance in early 2025, is a 72 billion parameter multimodal large language model from the UI-TARS family, built on Qwen-2-VL and fine-tuned for automated GUI interaction and computer control. It features native understanding of screenshots, UI elements, and web interfaces, achieving strong results across GUI benchmarks for perception, grounding, and agentic control. UI-TARS-72B-DPO targets computer-use agents, web automation, and applications requiring robust visual UI reasoning.