←Back to NewsAI News/ImagemodelImageLlmsJapan's LLM-jp-4-VL 9B Beats InternVL on Japanese While Staying Truly Open SourceJapan's national LLM project releases an Apache-2.0 vision-language model with reasoning traces, trained on a scrubbed 29M-sample dataset.SourceAlphaSignalPublishedSep 5, 2026, 7:41 AMAuthorAlphaSignal NewsroomRead1 min readJapan's national LLM project releases an Apache-2.0 vision-language model with reasoning traces, trained on a scrubbed 29M-sample dataset.Reporting is indexed from AlphaSignal. Rights remain with the original publisher and cited sources.Read original report ↗Next readsAlphaSignal · modelAnt Group's Ling-3.0-flash-VL Brings Images and Video to Its 124B Open ModelDeepSeek · modelDeepSeek's V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Adds Image Understanding at Half the Cost of RivalsQwen · newsAlibaba's Qwen3.8 LiveTranslate Cuts Speech Translation Lag to 2.3 Seconds
