# Alibaba — Qwen2.5-LLM: Extending the boundary of LLMs

- Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com)
- Announced: 2024-09-18T16:00:03+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Qwen
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Qwen2.5, Qwen2
- Source: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-llm/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2306-qwen2-5-llm-extending-the-boundary-of-llms

Alibaba's Qwen team announces the Qwen2.5 series of decoder-only dense language models, with seven open-sourced models ranging from 0.5B to 72B parameters, and plans to open-source Qwen2.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-llm/:

> We have developed a range of decoder-only dense models, with seven of them open-sourced, spanning from 0.5B to 72B parameters.

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