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#24B+Oct 30, 2025Evidence A

Emu3.5

BAAI · Undisclosed (native world model)

A world model built on next-state prediction

Trained on 10T+ interleaved vision-language tokens, Emu3.5 approaches Nano Banana on generation/editing and excels at multi-turn consistency. Understanding is not its strength.

TextImageVideoNative

Last updated Oct 18, 2026Editorial scoring

Bottom line

For visual storytelling, step-by-step guides and world-exploration video, Emu3.5 is the most imaginative Chinese open model. For OCR or chart QA, look elsewhere.

Eight-dimension breakdown

editorial mapping · 0–100
Perception86Document82Chart QA80Video78Agent70Generation98Chinese85Ecosystem708D
  • Emu3.580.5
Visual perception & grounding20%
86
Document parsing & Chinese OCR18%
82
Chart & document reasoning14%
80
Video & long-horizon reasoning14%
78
GUI agents & tool use14%
70
Generation & editing6%
98
Chinese context & culture6%
85
Ecosystem, cost & availability8%
70

Weights: perception 20 / documents 18 / charts 14 / video 14 / agents 14 / generation 6 / Chinese 6 / ecosystem 8. Definitions and sources on the methodology page.

Public benchmarks

as reported, not converted
Benchmark / metricValueNote
MME 感知781.1Low; clearly specialized
ImgEdit 多轮4.89Above BAGEL 4.45
训练 token10T+Interleaved vision-language

Public scores come from different versions and prompts and are not interchangeable with our composite; they are one evidence input.

Scenario mapping

five stress tests, one scale
ScenarioScoreObservation
Chinese receipt OCR80 · Not a strength
Chart data extraction76 · Weak
30-min video QA75 · Generation-oriented
Mobile GUI control66 · Unsupported
Chinese cultural context84 · Good visual storytelling context

Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Unified discrete tokens make generation and understanding isomorphic.
  • Strong multi-turn edit consistency (ImgEdit 4.89).
  • Unique long-horizon visual storytelling.

Limitations

  • MME perception only 781.1 — weak.
  • High inference cost limits generation speed.
  • Early productization and APIs.

Price and real cost

List price

—N/A

Open, self-hosted. For 1,000 images at 1,024px, ~1,100 image tokens each and 300 output tokens, the monthly cost is about ¥0.0 (assuming input at 25% of output price).

Use your volume

About Emu3.5

Is Emu3.5 open source?

Licence: Open (research license). Weights are available, but check the exact terms and filing requirements before commercial use.

How much does Emu3.5 cost?

Open, self-hosted. It ranks #24 with a composite of 80.5. Real bills depend on resolution, tiling, caching and volume discounts.

What is Emu3.5 best for?

Step-by-step visual guides; Multi-turn image editing; World-model research。

Why does Emu3.5 score 80.5?

The composite weights eight dimensions: perception 20%, documents 18%, charts 14%, video 14%, agents 14%, generation 6%, Chinese 6%, ecosystem 8%. Its strongest dimension is Generation & editing; its weakest is GUI agents & tool use.

Personal ranking · Not an official score

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