ZDTaichu5.0-9B takes the Qwen3.5-9B backbone and pushes it beyond generic multimodal AI…
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ZDTaichu5.0-9B takes the Qwen3.5-9B backbone and pushes it beyond generic multimodal AI into spatial reasoning, embodied intelligence, and agentic tool use. TaichuAI took the Qwen3.5-9B language backbone, added Nvidia's C-RADIOv4-H vision encoder, and added ... 👁️ image + video understanding 🧭 spatial reasoning 🤖 agent/tool use 🦾 embodied AI 📚 128K context 🖼️ any-resolution vision And the author-reported numbers are interesting. 📋 ViewSpatial ZDTaichu — 62.5 Qwen3.5-9B — 48.2 Gemini 3 Pro — 50.4 GPT-5.2 — 47.3 MindCube-tiny ZDTaichu — 78.3 Qwen3.5-9B — 57.6 Gemini 3 Pro — 70.9 GPT-5.2 — 60.
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