Qwen
More info
- Creator
- Alibaba Cloud
- Released
- Owner
- Alibaba Cloud
- Type
- Open-weights LLM family
- License
- Apache 2.0 (most sizes)
- Source
- github.com/QwenLM/Qwen
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Alibaba Cloud's open-weights model family — among the strongest non-frontier models of 2024–2025, ranging from 0.5B to 235B parameters.
"Tongyi Qianwen" in Chinese. Qwen2.5 (Sep 2024) introduced specialised variants (Qwen2.5-Coder, -Math, -VL). Qwen3 (April 2025) added a hybrid reasoning mode (slider between fast and thinking). QwQ is a reasoning-focused variant.
Apache 2.0 licence on most sizes. Ships GGUF/AWQ versions from release. Dominates Hugging Face leaderboards for open models alongside Llama, DeepSeek and Mistral.