Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform

May 27, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Building a Multimodal Search with Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch and Qwen‑VL

This article demonstrates how to integrate Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch with the Qwen‑VL large model and DashScope Embedding API to extract image features and perform multimodal vector search, covering text‑to‑image, text‑to‑text, image‑to‑image, and image‑to‑text queries, with step‑by‑step code, environment setup, data loading, indexing, and a Streamlit demo.