Alibaba's open Qwen family spanning dense and MoE sizes with strong multilingual and coding skills.
Specifications
- Provider
- Qwen (Alibaba)
- Type
- Open-source / open-weight
- Modality
- Text + Vision
- Category
- Language model
- Context window
- 128K
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024
- Released
- April 28, 2025
What it was trained for
Multilingual general-purpose tasks, coding, and reasoning across a family of dense and mixture-of-experts models.
Best for
- ▸Multilingual chat and translation
- ▸Coding assistance
- ▸Reasoning with optional thinking mode
- ▸Flexible deployment from small to large sizes
Capabilities
Dense and MoE models at multiple sizesSwitchable thinking / non-thinking modesBroad multilingual coverageStrong coding and math abilityOpen weights for most variantsLong context support
Performance & positioning
A competitive open model family that scales from small on-device sizes to large MoE variants rivaling leading open and proprietary models.
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