Alibaba
Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct
CurrentLatestQwen 2.5 72B Instruct is a large multilingual open-weights model from Alibaba’s Qwen family with strong coding and general chat performance.
Open weights LLM · Release — · Qwen license (see Alibaba)
Featured · Updated 1 day ago · Verified Apr 2026 · Score 86
Decision summary
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Why teams choose it
- Strong alternative when Alibaba Cloud or HF hosting is already approved.
- Multilingual quality varies—evaluate per locale.
Best use cases
- Use this when regional assistants in Asian languages
- Use this when code generation in enterprise Git workflows
Tradeoffs
- Legal review required for cross-border data flows.
- Hardware requirements are significant at 72B scale.
Technical details
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Modalities
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- Inputs
- text
- Outputs
- text
- Capabilities
- multilingual, coding, reasoning
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