Qwen
Alibaba Cloud's open-weight large language model family with competitive performance across text, code, vision, and audio.
Features
- Open-weight models from 0.5B to 110B parameters
- Multimodal capabilities (vision, audio, code)
- Competitive with leading proprietary models
- Available on Hugging Face and ModelScope
- Qwen-Agent framework for tool use and planning
Qwen is Alibaba Cloud’s open-weight large language model family, offering models ranging from 0.5B to 110B parameters. The Qwen2.5 series delivers competitive performance across text generation, coding, mathematics, and reasoning tasks. The family includes specialized variants for vision (Qwen-VL), audio (Qwen-Audio), and code (Qwen-Coder). Qwen models are freely available for download and self-hosting, making them a popular choice for developers building AI applications globally.
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