Alibaba’s Qwen AI Releases Compact Dense Qwen3-VL 4B/8B (Instruct & Thinking) With FP8 Checkpoints

Alibaba’s Qwen AI Releases Compact Dense Qwen3-VL 4B/8B (Instruct & Thinking) With FP8 Checkpoints

Do you actually need a giant VLM when dense Qwen3-VL 4B/8B (Instruct/Thinking) with FP8 runs in low VRAM yet retains 256K→1M context and the full capability surface? Alibaba’s Qwen team has expanded its multimodal lineup with dense Qwen3-VL models at 4B and 8B scales, each shipping in two task profiles—Instruct and Thinking—plus FP8-quantized checkpoints for low-VRAM deployment. The drop arrives as a smaller, edge-friendly complement to the prev…