Alibaba Qwen Open-Sources Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B: First Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving

Summary

Alibaba Qwen open-sourced Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B this week, a vision-language model for autonomous driving built on Qwen3.5-4B, claimed to be the first vision-language foundation model for autonomous driving. The model unifies 3D perception and visual question answering during pretraining, extends to motion planning, while retaining general vision-language capabilities. It offers both SFT and RL planning experts, with official evaluations showing competitiveness across benchmarks and improved closed-loop safety after reinforcement learning.