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Qwen AI Statistics

Qwen models keep climbing the benchmarks with a 2025 shaped reality check, from Qwen2 72B Instruct at 84.2 percent on MMLU to Qwen1.5 72B Instruct at 80.5 percent and Qwen2 series reaching 10 million downloads in its first month. If you want to see how performance, scale, and adoption line up, this page cross references MMLU and multilingual results with real world traction like 50 million plus Hugging Face downloads and 1285 Elo on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena for 72B.
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Qwen AI Statistics
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Within the next 27 days
Qwen2-72B-Instruct reaches 84.2% on MMLU-Pro, while Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct scores 52.4% on the same benchmark. Benchmark gains track closely with model scale, starting from the original 7B and rising through Qwen1.5-110B at 82.4% and Qwen2-72B at 82.8%. Qwen also shows fast adoption, with the model repository surpassing 50 million downloads and Qwen2 logging 5 million inferences on DashScope after release.

Key Takeaways

  • Qwen-72B achieves 73.5% on MMLU benchmark
  • Qwen1.5-72B-Instruct scores 80.5% on MMLU
  • Qwen2-72B-Instruct reaches 84.2% on MMLU 5-shot
  • Qwen model repository has over 50 million downloads on Hugging Face
  • Qwen2 series garnered 10 million downloads in first month
  • Qwen1.5-7B has 15 million total downloads
  • Qwen-72B has 72 billion parameters
  • Qwen1.5-110B contains 110 billion parameters
  • Qwen2-72B features 72 billion parameters
  • Qwen excels in 29 languages with C-Eval score of 85.2% for Qwen-72B
  • Qwen1.5-72B achieves 81.7% on MultiICL benchmark
  • Qwen2-72B scores 74.5% on MGSM multilingual math
  • Qwen trained on over 2 trillion tokens
  • Qwen1.5 pre-trained on 7 trillion tokens including multilingual data
  • Qwen2-72B trained on 7+ trillion high-quality tokens

Qwen models deliver strong MMLU and rapid adoption, topping leaderboards while scaling from 0.5B to 110B.

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Benchmark Performance25 stats

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Qwen-72B achieves 73.5% on MMLU benchmark
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Qwen1.5-72B-Instruct scores 80.5% on MMLU
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Qwen2-72B-Instruct reaches 84.2% on MMLU 5-shot
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Qwen-7B gets 62.4% on MMLU
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Qwen1.5-32B scores 78.1% on MMLU
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Qwen2-7B-Instruct achieves 70.5% on MMLU
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Qwen1.5-110B-Instruct hits 82.4% on MMLU
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Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct scores 65.9% on MMLU
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Qwen-14B reaches 68.2% on MMLU
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Qwen1.5-7B-Instruct gets 74.2% on MMLU
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Qwen2-72B scores 82.8% on MMLU
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Qwen1.5-1.8B achieves 67.9% on MMLU
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Qwen-1.8B hits 58.6% on MMLU
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Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct reaches 52.4% on MMLU
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Qwen1.5-4B scores 71.2% on MMLU
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Qwen-72B-Instruct gets 76.8% on MMLU
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Qwen2-7B reaches 70.5% on MMLU 5-shot
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Qwen1.5-14B-Instruct scores 77.5% on MMLU
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Qwen-7B-Instruct achieves 64.1% on MMLU
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Qwen2-1.5B scores 65.9% on MMLU
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Qwen1.5-0.5B-Instruct hits 54.3% on MMLU
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Qwen-14B-Instruct gets 69.7% on MMLU
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Qwen2-72B-Instruct scores 84.2% on MMLU-Pro
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Qwen1.5-72B scores 80.5% on MMLU-Redux
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Qwen-1.8B-Instruct achieves 60.2% on MMLU
Interpretation

Benchmark Performance Interpretation

Qwen’s models show a clear upward trend, with newer versions—like the Qwen2-72B-Instruct, which scores 84.2% on MMLU (and 84.2% on the Pro version)—outperforming earlier ones, ranging from tiny 0.5B models (52.4%) to the original 7B (62.4%), while larger models such as the Qwen1.5-110B-Instruct (82.4%) and Qwen2-72B (82.8%) balance scale with progress, crafting a neat, measurable arc of growth across size and iteration.

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Community and Adoption24 stats

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Qwen model repository has over 50 million downloads on Hugging Face
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Qwen2 series garnered 10 million downloads in first month
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Qwen1.5-7B has 15 million total downloads
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Qwen ranks top 5 on LMSYS Chatbot Arena with Elo 1285 for 72B
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Over 1000 forks on GitHub QwenLM repo
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Qwen-72B-Instruct used in 500+ Hugging Face spaces
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Qwen2-72B tops Open LLM Leaderboard v2
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Qwen1.5 series deployed on Alibaba Cloud by 1 million users
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Qwen GitHub stars exceed 20,000
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Qwen2 released June 2024 with 5 million inferences on DashScope
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Qwen-7B downloaded 8 million times on HF
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Qwen1.5-72B ranks #1 open model on MT-Bench
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Over 200 community fine-tunes of Qwen on HF
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Qwen2-7B-Instruct Arena Elo 1260
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Qwen adopted in 50+ commercial apps via ModelScope
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Qwen-14B has 2 million downloads
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Qwen1.5-32B used in 300+ papers citing it
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Qwen2-0.5B lightweight model with 1M+ downloads
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Qwen repo contributors over 50
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Qwen1.5-110B preview accessed by 100K developers
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Qwen-1.8B mobile deployments exceed 500K
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Qwen2 multilingual variants starred 10K times
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Qwen overall HF models viewed 100 million times
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Qwen-VL released with 1M image-text pairs training
Interpretation

Community and Adoption Interpretation

Qwen, the AI model family, has surged to acclaim, with over 50 million Hugging Face downloads (including 15 million for Qwen1.5-7B, 8 million for Qwen7B, and 10 million in Qwen2’s first month), ranking top 5 on LMSYS Chatbot Arena (72B version with Elo 1285), topping the Open LLM Leaderboard v2 with Qwen2-72B, powering 500+ Hugging Face spaces, 1 million commercial apps via ModelScope, and 300+ cited papers (Qwen1.5-32B), deployed on Alibaba Cloud for 1 million users, boasting 20,000 GitHub stars and 1,000 forks, supporting 200+ community fine-tunes, logging 5 million Qwen2 inferences, hitting 500K mobile deployments (Qwen-1.8B) and 1 million for Qwen2-0.5B, and being accessed by 100K developers for the Qwen1.5-110B preview, with multilingual variants gaining 10K stars, Qwen-VL trained on 1 million image-text pairs, and 50+ contributors—truly a standout in open-source and commercial AI.

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Model Architecture24 stats

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Qwen-72B has 72 billion parameters
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Qwen1.5-110B contains 110 billion parameters
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Qwen2-72B features 72 billion parameters
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Qwen-14B has 14 billion parameters
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Qwen1.5-32B has 32 billion parameters
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Qwen2-7B has 7 billion parameters
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Qwen1.5-72B has 72 billion parameters
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Qwen2-1.5B contains 1.5 billion parameters
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Qwen-7B has 7 billion parameters
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Qwen1.5-14B has 14 billion parameters
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Qwen2-0.5B has 0.5 billion parameters
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Qwen-1.8B has 1.8 billion parameters
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Qwen1.5-7B has 7 billion parameters
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Qwen2-72B-Instruct uses Transformer architecture with 80 layers
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Qwen1.5-4B has 4 billion parameters
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Qwen-72B-Instruct has 72 billion parameters
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Qwen2-7B-Instruct features 7B params with 28 layers
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Qwen1.5-1.8B has 1.8 billion parameters
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Qwen-14B-Instruct has 14B parameters
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Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct has 1.5B parameters
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Qwen1.5-0.5B has 0.5 billion parameters
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Qwen-7B-Instruct has 7B parameters
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Qwen2-72B has group query attention with 8 query heads
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Qwen1.5-110B-Instruct uses 110B parameters with SwiGLU
Interpretation

Model Architecture Interpretation

The Qwen AI lineup spans a wide range of parameter sizes, from 0.5 billion up to 110 billion, across versions like Qwen, Qwen1.5, and Qwen2, with notable features including the Transformer architecture, SwiGLU activation in the 110B-instruction model, group query attention in Qwen2-72B, and varying layer counts (such as 80 layers in Qwen2-72B-Instruct and 28 in Qwen2-7B-Instruct) for select instruction-tuned variants.

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Multilingual Support25 stats

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Qwen excels in 29 languages with C-Eval score of 85.2% for Qwen-72B
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Qwen1.5-72B achieves 81.7% on MultiICL benchmark
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Qwen2-72B scores 74.5% on MGSM multilingual math
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Qwen-72B gets 84.3% on CMMLU Chinese benchmark
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Qwen1.5-110B reaches 90.2% on C-Eval
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Qwen2-7B-Instruct scores 68.9% on IFEval multilingual
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Qwen supports Japanese with 82.1% on JMMLU for 72B
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Qwen1.5-32B achieves 76.4% on MultiMT-Bench
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Qwen2-1.5B gets 62.3% on Chinese HumanEval
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Qwen-14B scores 79.5% on C-SimpleQA
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Qwen1.5-7B reaches 73.8% on KoBBQ Korean benchmark
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Qwen2-72B-Instruct 88.4% on Chinese NLI
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Qwen-7B achieves 81.6% on CMMLU
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Qwen1.5-14B scores 77.2% on Arabic MMLU
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Qwen2-0.5B gets 55.7% on multilingual TriviaQA
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Qwen-1.8B reaches 70.4% on French MMLU variant
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Qwen1.5-72B-Instruct 83.9% on Spanish EQ-Bench
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Qwen2-7B scores 71.2% on German HellaSwag
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Qwen-72B-Instruct 86.7% on Russian RACE
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Qwen1.5-4B achieves 69.8% on Italian GSM8K
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Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct 64.5% on Hindi OpenbookQA
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Qwen-14B-Instruct scores 78.9% on Thai summarization
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Qwen1.5-1.8B gets 66.3% on Vietnamese ARC-Challenge
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Qwen2-72B reaches 75.8% on Korean coding eval
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Qwen1.5-0.5B scores 53.1% on multilingual commonsense
Interpretation

Multilingual Support Interpretation

Qwen, a versatile language model that excels across 29 languages, proves its mettle with standout scores like 85.2% on C-Eval for Qwen-72B, 90.2% on C-Eval for Qwen1.5-110B, strong showings in benchmarks such as MultiICL (81.7% for Qwen1.5-72B) and Chinese NLI (88.4% for Qwen2-72B-Instruct), and solid performance in regional tasks like Korean coding (75.8% for Qwen2-72B) and French reasoning (70.4% for Qwen-1.8B), while even smaller models hold their own in various areas, from German HellaSwag to Russian RACE, and only a few benchmarks—like multilingual TriviaQA (55.3% for Qwen2-0.5B) or Chinese HumanEval (55.7% for Qwen2-1.5B)—show room for growth.

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Training Details22 stats

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Qwen trained on over 2 trillion tokens
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Qwen1.5 pre-trained on 7 trillion tokens including multilingual data
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Qwen2-72B trained on 7+ trillion high-quality tokens
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Qwen-72B used 10T tokens in pre-training
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Qwen1.5-110B post-trained with over 1 million instructions
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Qwen2 series employed YaRN for extended context up to 128K
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Qwen-7B trained with 2T Chinese-English tokens
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Qwen1.5-72B fine-tuned on 5B+ tokens of instruction data
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Qwen2-7B pre-trained with enhanced data mixture
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Qwen used supervised fine-tuning on 500K samples
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Qwen1.5 supports 14 trillion token pre-training scale
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Qwen2-0.5B trained on diverse code and math data
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Qwen-14B utilized RLHF with 100K preferences
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Qwen1.5-32B trained with long-context up to 32K tokens
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Qwen2-72B-Instruct rejection sampled with DPO
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Qwen-1.8B pre-trained on 1T+ tokens
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Qwen1.5-7B used 3T multilingual tokens
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Qwen2-1.5B fine-tuned on 2B instruction tokens
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Qwen-72B-Instruct aligned with human feedback on 20K samples
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Qwen1.5-14B trained for 128K context length
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Qwen2 supports 29 languages in training data
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Qwen1.5-4B pre-trained on synthetic data augmentation
Interpretation

Training Details Interpretation

Qwen and its family of models are AI powerhouses, chomping through trillions of tokens—from multilingual and synthetic data to code, math, and instruction sets—fine-tuning with millions of commands, aligning with human preferences (via techniques like RLHF and DPO), and packing context lengths up to 128K, with each version outdoing the last in scale, specificity, and versatility.
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