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Qwen3.5-Omni learned to write code from spoken instructions and video without anyone training it to

Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni just beat Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio tasks — and learned to code from speech without being trained for it.

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This represents a significant leap in multimodal AI capabilities, with emergent coding abilities suggesting we're approaching more general AI systems that could reshape how developers interact with code.

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  1. Beats Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio tasks

  2. Processes 4 modalities: text, images, audio, and video

  3. Emerged coding ability from speech/video without specific training

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Publisher excerpt: Alibaba has released Qwen3.5-Omni, an omnimodal AI model that processes text, images, audio, and video. It claims to beat Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio tasks and picked up an unexpected trick along the way: writing code from spoken instructions and video input.
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