Next-gen Qwen 3.5 VLM (400B MoE) brings advanced vision, chat, RAG, and agentic capabilities.


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Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Container Overview
Description:
This container houses the Qwen3.5-397B-A17B model, which is a multimodal foundation model featuring a Hybrid Mixture-of-Experts architecture with early fusion vision-language training, designed for state-of-the-art performance across chat, retrieval-augmented generation, vision-language understanding, video understanding, and agentic workflows.
The container components are ready for commercial use.
License/Terms of Use:
GOVERNING TERMS: The NIM container is governed by the NVIDIA Software License Agreement and Product-Specific Terms for NVIDIA AI Products. Use of this model is governed by the NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement. Additional Information: Apache 2.0 License.
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Qwen3.5-397B-A17B NIM:
The Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Container includes the Qwen3.5-397B-A17B model.
| Model Name & Link | Use Case | How to Pull the Model |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-397B-A17B https://build.nvidia.com/qwen/qwen3.5-397b-a17b | Designed for chat, retrieval-augmented generation, vision-language understanding, video understanding, and agentic workflows. | Automatic |
Deployment Details:
Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA’s hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions.
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Container Version(s):
nvcr.io/nim/qwen/qwen3.5-397b-a17b:2.0.4-variant
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