Alibaba Cloud Releases Qwen2.5: 100+ Open-Source Models at Apsara Conference

Alibaba Cloud unveiled Qwen2.5 at its Apsara Conference in Hangzhou on September 19, 2024, releasing over 100 open-source models in what the company described as the largest open-source AI model release to date. The comprehensive release spans seven parameter sizes from 0.5 billion to 72 billion parameters, each available in multiple quantized formats including GGUF, AWQ, and GPTQ variants, with support for extended context windows up to 128,000 tokens.