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Qwen2

Alibaba·

LLMsopen-weightcloud + localWorkstation

Overview

Major upgrade with 72B flagship, competitive with leading Western models.

Capabilities and innovations

72B Parameters128k contextMultilingual (29 languages)GQA ArchitectureDual Chunk AttentionYARN Scaling

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
GPQA Diamond30.4%unsourced
MMLU84.2%unsourced
  • Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools): not reported by the vendor
  • SWE-bench Verified: not reported by the vendor
  • SWE-bench Pro: benchmark did not exist at release
  • MMLU-Pro: benchmark did not exist at release
  • Terminal-Bench 2.x: benchmark did not exist at release
  • MMMU-Pro: benchmark did not exist at release

Architecture and hardware

Parameters
72B total (Dense)
Estimated VRAM at Q4
~42 GB, Workstation class

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