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Amazon Web Services announced the availability of Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B and Qwen3-Reranker-4B in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the foundation model options for AWS customers. The models are designed for information retrieval and cross-modal understanding, allowing users to construct search pipelines on AWS infrastructure. The embedding model processes diverse inputs such as text, images, videos, and mixed modalities, generating semantically rich vectors for tasks like image-text retrieval and multimodal clustering across over 30 languages.

Qwen3-Reranker-4B evaluates query-document pairs to produce relevance scores, refining retrieval results for applications including text retrieval, code retrieval, and text classification. It supports over 100 languages and allows user-defined instructions to tailor performance for specific tasks or scenarios. The reranker operates as a follow-up to the embedding model, enhancing the precision of search outcomes in retrieval workflows.

Customers can deploy either model in SageMaker JumpStart with minimal setup, enabling rapid integration into existing AI use cases. The deployment process can be initiated through SageMaker Studio’s Models section or via the SageMaker Python SDK, providing flexibility for different workflow preferences.

For detailed guidance on deploying and using these foundation models, AWS directs users to the Amazon SageMaker JumpStart documentation. The models are now accessible to AWS account holders for immediate implementation in retrieval and multimodal applications.