Qwen Drive Ships a 4B Autonomous-Driving Model

Qwen and Huazhong University released Qwen-Drive-1.0, an Apache-2.0 model built on Qwen3.5-4B that reports a 90.7 NAVSIM PDMS score, with 9.1GB of weights and a recommended 24GB+ GPU, the official repository documents. That makes it a practical local research artifact rather than evidence of road-ready autonomy: teams can reproduce perception and planning experiments on one workstation, while deployment still needs closed-loop validation; Qwen’s open-model ecosystem analysis explains why weights matter only when tooling can carry them into production.