Qwen
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Alibaba releases the Qwen family of open LLMs with strong tool-use and planning capabilities for language agents.
Open model family: Ships with multiple sizes (7B, 14B, 72B) and both base and chat variants, covering a wide range of downstream needs.
Tool use and planning: Emphasizes tool use and planning capabilities through targeted RLHF training for agentic tasks.
Agent-ready: Comes with agent-specific RLHF data and recipes that would inform the Qwen-Agent releases through 2024.
Multilingual strength: Strong on Chinese alongside English, filling a gap in the open-LLM landscape previously dominated by English-centric releases.
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