Qwen: Alibaba All-Round AI Assistant for Multimodal Chat and Long Documents

What is Qwen

Qwen is an all-round artificial intelligence assistant from Alibaba, built on the powerful Qwen large models. It supports multimodal interaction with text, images, documents, audio and video inputs, so users can ask questions, analyse files and create content in one place. Qwen reads long texts, covers translation and conversation in as many as 119 languages and dialects, and produces presentations, marketing copy and stories. It also offers real-time translation, spoken language practice, AI ID photos and virtual try-on, reaching office work, maps, health and shopping scenarios. You can use it on the web, in mobile apps, in a mini program or through a browser extension.

Main capabilities

• Multimodal interaction: Accepts text, images, documents, audio and video and understands content in different formats.
• Long document processing: Handles a single document of up to 10 million characters and parses up to 100 files in different formats at once, suitable for academic papers and long reports.
• Intelligent writing: Generates creative copy, office documents and study support, including stories, official documents, emails, scripts and poems.
• Real-time translation: Translates between many languages, covering 119 languages and dialects to remove language barriers.
• Audio and video processing: Recognises, understands, summarises and translates audio and video files, with up to 50 files handled at the same time.
• Presentations and live notes: Creates presentations from texts of up to 100,000 characters with downloadable files, transcribes speech in real time and generates mind maps.
• AI image and video creation: Supports text-to-video and image-to-video generation, image expansion, style transfer, watermark removal, AI ID photos and virtual try-on.
• Knowledge Q&A, roles and code: Answers questions from a broad knowledge base, lets users build custom tools and chat roles, and offers code generation, optimisation, explanation and debugging.

How to use Qwen

1. Web version: Open the official site at https://www.qianwen.com/ in a browser.
2. Mobile app: Search for Qwen in your app store and install it; spoken language practice is available only in the app.
3. Mini program: Search for Qwen in the WeChat mini program list and start chatting.
4. Browser extension: Install the Qwen browser extension for online courses, streaming and web meetings.

Use cases

• Meeting management: Transcribes meetings in real time, produces bilingual minutes and locates past decisions through smart Q&A.
• Document processing: Drafts market research reports and project summaries, then organises and classifies documents for easy retrieval.
• Study support: Offers personalised guidance and groups uploaded mistakes by weak knowledge points before pushing targeted exercises.
• University application guidance: Uses large models and eight years of exam data to provide free calendars, reports and Q&A for application choices.
• Device control: Controls lights, air conditioners and speakers at home through voice or text commands.

Limits and notes

• Spoken language practice is available only in the mobile app.
• A single document can reach 10 million characters with up to 100 files parsed at once, and up to 50 audio or video files can be handled in one batch.
• Device control requires compatible connected hardware at home, and generated content still needs human review.

FAQ

Who is Qwen for?

It suits office workers, students and creators who need multimodal Q&A, long document reading, translation, writing and media understanding in one assistant.

How long a document can Qwen handle?

A single document can reach up to 10 million characters, and up to 100 files in different formats can be parsed at the same time.

Which entry points does Qwen support?

The web version, mobile apps, a mini program and a browser extension.