Qwen Ships Qwen3-VL 8B Locally, Seeing Images and Video in 5 GB

Alibaba's Qwen team shipped GGUF weights for Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct, letting the multimodal model run locally through llama.cpp, Ollama, and LM Studio.

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Oct 18, 2026, 9:28 AM

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Alibaba's Qwen team shipped GGUF weights for Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct, letting the multimodal model run locally through llama.cpp, Ollama, and LM Studio.

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