Qwen
| Qwen | |
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Screenshot Screenshot of an example of a Qwen 3 answer describing Wikipedia, with the "Thinking" feature enabled | |
| Developer | Alibaba Cloud |
| Initial release | April 2023 |
| Stable release | Qwen3.5-397B-A17B / February 16, 2026 Qwen3.5-Plus / February 16, 2026 Qwen3.5-Medium Models / February 24, 2026 Qwen3-Coder-Next / February 2, 2026 |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | |
| Type | Large language model, chatbot |
| License | Apache-2.0 Qwen Research License Qwen License |
| Website | chat |
| Repository | github |
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| Tongyi Qianwen | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 通義千問 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 通义千问 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | to comprehend the meaning, [and to answer] a thousand kinds of questions | ||||||
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Qwen (also known as Tongyi Qianwen, Chinese: 通义千问; pinyin: Tōngyì Qiānwèn) is a family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud. Many Qwen variants are distributed as open‑weight models under the Apache‑2.0 license, while others are served through Alibaba Cloud.
In July 2024, South China Morning Post reported that benchmarking platform SuperCLUE ranked Qwen2‑72B‑Instruct behind OpenAI's GPT‑4o and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and ahead of other Chinese models.