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Alibaba releases Qwen2.5

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Released Qwen2.5 — seven sizes from 0.5B to 72B, pretrained on up to 18T tokens, 128K context, 29+ languages; Qwen2.5-Coder and Qwen2.5-Math released alongside

Why it matters

All open models except the 3B and 72B were released under Apache 2.0, and the 14B and 32B sizes missing from the previous generation returned

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Officialqwenlm.github.iohttps://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5/

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  3. Later versionQwQ-32B-Preview
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