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Qwen 2.5 72B

by Alibabaopen weights
Qwen 2.5 family
Parameters
72B
Context window
128K tokens
Released
2024-09-19
Input price / 1M tok
$0.35
Output price / 1M tok
$0.40
Modality
tools

About Qwen 2.5 72B

Alibaba's flagship dense open model. Ships with strong multilingual (esp. Chinese/English), competitive code, and generous Apache-2.0 licence. Available via Alibaba Cloud, Together, Fireworks.

Strengths

  • Apache 2.0
  • Best-in-class Chinese support
  • Strong code
  • Cheap

Weaknesses

  • Text-only
  • Less community fine-tuning vs Llama
  • US enterprise sometimes cautious about Chinese-origin

Best for

Bilingual EN/ZH chatFine-tuningCost-sensitive production
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