The Qwen team from Alibaba has recently made waves in the AI/ML community by releasing their latest series of large language models (LLMs), Qwen2.5.
These models have taken the AI landscape by storm, from 0.5 billion to 72 billion parameters.
Qwen2.5 has introduced notable improvements across several key areas, including coding, mathematics, instruction-following, and multilingual support.
The release includes specialized models, such as Qwen2.5-Coder and Qwen2.5-Math, further diversifying the range of applications for which these models can be optimized.
Versatility and performance, which allows it to challenge some of the most powerful models on the market, including Llama 3.1 and Mistral Large 2.
Qwen2.5’s benchmark results suggest massive improvements over its predecessor, Qwen2, across several key metrics.
Qwen2.5’s ability to support context lengths of up to 128,000 tokens is crucial for tasks requiring extensive and complex inputs.
Qwen2.5 series supports 29 languages, making it a robust tool for multilingual applications.
Alibaba has also released specialized variants with base models: Qwen2.5-Coder and Qwen2.5-Math.
The Qwen2.5-72B model represents the top-tier variant with 72 billion parameters.