Getting Started
- Try Qwen online at qwen.ai through the official chat interface for free.
- Download model weights from Hugging Face or ModelScope in your preferred size and quantization.
- Run Qwen locally with Ollama, vLLM, or the official transformers integration for fast inference.
- Use the Qwen-Agent framework to build tool-using AI agents with built-in code execution capabilities.
Key Features
- Wide range of model sizes from 0.6B to 235B parameters including MoE variants for flexible deployment options.
- Best-in-class coding performance with strong results on HumanEval, MBPP, and real-world software engineering benchmarks.
- Advanced multilingual support covering 29+ languages with particularly strong Chinese and English capabilities.
- Vision-language models (Qwen-VL) for image understanding, OCR, and visual reasoning tasks.
- Apache 2.0 license for most model sizes, enabling fully unrestricted commercial and research use.
- Built-in tool use and function calling with native support for structured output and API integration.
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