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Qwen 2.5 72B

Alibaba's flagship open-weight model. Strong on coding, math, and Chinese-language tasks; competitive with Llama 3.3 70B on Western benchmarks.

Modality
Text
License
Qwen License (Open weights)
Parameter size
72B
Context window
131,072 tokens
Released
September 19, 2024
Last verified
May 10, 2026
Runs locally
Yes

Strengths

  • Strong Chinese and multilingual performance
  • Excellent coding and math performance for an open model
  • 131k context window

Weaknesses

  • License restricts commercial use at >100M MAU
  • Needs multi-GPU or quantization for local use

Try it

WhereTypeNotes
Hugging Face weights Qwen License
OpenRouter hosted-api API key required
Ollama local ollama run qwen2.5:72b

Version history

  1. Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Nov 2024
  2. Qwen 2.5 72B Sep 2024 Current
  3. Qwen 2.5 7B Sep 2024

Change log

  • — Initial entry.