Explore the revolutionary world of artificial intelligence with our podcast deep-diving into Alibaba's Qwen AI models. We break down the capabilities of Qwen 2.5 VL, a vision-language model that can see, read, and understand the world with remarkable accuracy, pinpointing objects with bounding boxes and extracting structured data. Learn how it can recognise celebrities, various species of birds, specific car models and products.... We also explore Qwen 2.5 M, the language model with an astonishing 1 million token context length, capable of processing entire books at once and revolutionising natural language processing....•Discover how Qwen models are being used in real-world applications, from enhancing travel apps to providing assistance in legal and financial sectors....•Understand the innovative training techniques behind these models, including progressive training, fill-in-the-middle, and paragraph reordering....•We also discuss the availability of the models through open-source weights, API access and user-friendly platforms like Qwen Chat....•We examine the implications of this technology, including how it could change how we interact with computers and the potential for AI to surpass human intelligence....Join us as we unpack the complex and exciting world of Qwen AI, and its potential to transform our lives....