Alibaba releases Qwen2
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Released Qwen2 — five sizes (0.5B, 1.5B, 7B, 57B-A14B, 72B), trained on 27 additional languages beyond English and Chinese, with up to 128K context for the 7B and 72B Instruct models
Why it matters
Only the 72B kept the original Qianwen License while the other four moved to Apache 2.0, the release where Qwen's licensing began to open up
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
Officialqwenlm.github.iohttps://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2/Added in Week 41, 2026 · See that week
On the map — ⑨ Open-Weight Lineage line
- Previous stopMistral Large
- This recordQwen2
- Next stopEXAONE 3.0
In the model family tree — Qwen family · 13 versions
- Earlier versionQwen-7B
- This recordQwen2
- Later versionQwen2.5