Capability gains

Alibaba releases ten Qwen2 base and instruction models

Alibaba Cloud released Qwen2 weights spanning 0.5B to 72B parameters, including a 57B mixture-of-experts tier, with base and instruction variants and permissive commercial access for most sizes.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM67confidence 99/100

Why it moved the index

The release combined strong multilingual and reasoning capability with a broad ladder of downloadable base and instruction checkpoints, materially increasing open access and competitive diffusion.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 67 · confidence 99

    New June 2024 exact open-weight Qwen2 family release.

    12 Aug 2026