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Qwen is the flagship family of open-weight large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud, released under permissive licenses and widely deployed across the global open-source AI ecosystem. The series includes Qwen3, Qwen2.5, and variants ranging from compact 0.5B to massive 235B mixture-of-experts models. Qwen base models excel at multilingual chat, content generation, instruction following, agentic workflows, and long-context document analysis with windows up to 1M tokens. They consistently rank among the top open-source models on global benchmarks. Available via Hugging Face, ModelScope, Ollama, vLLM, and Alibaba Cloud’s DashScope API, Qwen is the most-downloaded Chinese open-source LLM family worldwide.
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