Composer 2.5 is now available inside Grok Build.
Composer 2.5 is a fast, highly intelligent model that excels on long-running tasks and following complex instructions.
Introducing Qwen3.7-Plus — a multimodal agent model that unifies vision and language into one versatile agent foundation.
Multimodal interactive hybrid agent: unified GUI & CLI operation across visual and text tasks
Versatile coding agent & productivity assistant with full-modality input
Visual Agent: perception, reasoning, grounding, and search-augmented QA
Cross-harness generalization across diverse agent frameworks
One model. Sees, thinks, codes, acts.
Now available via API on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. Try it — let us know what you build.
Blog:
https://
qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.
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Qwen Studio:
https://
chat.qwen.ai/?models=qwen3.
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API:
https://
modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/ap-southeast-1
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