Alibaba Qwen Statistics

Alibaba's Qwen series is a towering, globally adored force in AI—raking in over a billion Hugging Face downloads (including 200 million Qwen2.5-7B, 100 million Qwen2.5-1.5B, and 10 million+ Qwen1.5-72B), boasting 35,000 GitHub stars, 20,000+ forks, and a 40% China market share for open models—with top LMSYS ELO scores, 60% win rates against GPT-4o mini, 1 million daily active users on DashScope, 10 million+ vLLM inferences, 30 million image inferences via Qwen1.5-VL, 1,000+ arXiv citations, and integration into Alibaba Cloud PAI serving 1 million users, all while powering 500+ apps and deploying 2 billion parameter models internally, solidifying its status as the most impactful open-source AI project around.

Alibaba’s Qwen models—spanning versions 1.5, 2, and 2.5, with sizes from 0.5B to 110B parameters—show a blend of impressive strengths and steady room for growth across a wide range of benchmarks: Qwen2.5-72B leads with 89.3% on MMLU-Pro, 91.2% on CEval, and 88.5% on TriviaQA, while smaller models like Qwen2-1.5B post 55.3% on the math benchmark GSM8K and Qwen2.5-7B hits 70.5% on coding’s HumanEval; multilingual efforts shine with Qwen1.5-72B at 83.2% on CMMLU, and progress is evident in Qwen1.5 chat models averaging 75.3% on MT-Bench.

Since Qwen first released in September 2023, Alibaba has advanced the model series at a rapid pace, with Qwen1.5 launching in February 2024, Qwen2 in June, Qwen2.5 announced by September, and updates including long-context support in March, the first Qwen-VL (April 2024), Qwen2.5-Coder (October 2024), open-sourced versions (Qwen1.5-110B in late March, Qwen2-72B with open weights in June), and other variants like Qwen-Audio (November 2023), mini Qwen2 models (July 2024), Qwen-Long (May 2024 with 1 million context), Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B (April 2024), Qwen2.5-Max (October 29 preview), Qwen2.5-VL (early October), Qwen2.5-32B (September), Qwen1.5-72B-Chat v1 (February 2024), Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (September on Hugging Face), Qwen2.5-Math (November full release), and 8 Qwen2.5 models by September.

Qwen’s model family is a versatile workhorse, stretching from the compact, 29-language Qwen2-0.5B (with BF16 training and 0.5 billion parameters) to the sprawling Qwen2.5-72B (packing 7.37 billion parameters, 128K context length, and vision-language integration via Qwen-VL), while other variants mix features like GQA attention (Qwen1.5-32B), SwiGLU activation (Qwen1.5-110B), RoPE embeddings (Qwen2.5-1.5B), 16GB FP16 memory (Qwen2-7B-Instruct), 32 attention heads (Qwen1.5-4B), and 4096 hidden sizes (Qwen2.5-32B) to cater to diverse AI needs with balance and flair.

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