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Also known as Tongyi, Tongyi Qianwen, qianwen.com, qwen.ai

Qwen (also known as Tongyi Qianwen, ; 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.

Key facts

Software.title
Qwen
Software.logo
Qwen Logo.svg
Software.logo_upright
1.15
Software.screenshot
Qwen 3 chatbot example screenshot.webp
Software.screenshot_upright
1.15
Software.collapsible
yes
Software.caption
Screenshot of an example of a Qwen 3 answer describing Wikipedia, with the "Thinking" feature enabled
Software.developer
Alibaba Cloud
Software.latest release version
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B / Qwen3.5-Plus /Qwen3.5-Medium Models /Qwen3-Coder-Next /
Software.programming language
Python
Software.genre
Large language model, chatbot
Software.license
Apache-2.0Qwen Research LicenseQwen License
Chinese.name1
Tongyi Qianwen
Chinese.s
通义千问
Chinese.t
通義千問
Chinese.l
to comprehend the meaning, [and to answer] a thousand kinds of questions
Chinese.p
Tōngyì Qiānwèn

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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Models
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Qwen (also known as Tongyi Qianwen, ; 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qwen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.