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Qwen2.5-72B
SupersededPrior-generation open-weight flagship (Apache 2.0); matched/exceeded Llama 3.1 70B on most benchmarks. Superseded by the Qwen3 family.
About this version
Qwen2.5-72B is a 72‑billion‑parameter model in the Qwen series released in September 2024 as an open‑weight flagship under the Apache 2.0 license. It features a 128 000‑token context window and was reported to match or exceed the performance of Llama 3.1 70B on most benchmarks, but it has since been superseded by the newer Qwen 3 family and is now listed as legacy.
- Context window
- 128K ctx
- Tier
- Legacy
- Released
- Sep 1, 2024
Release & change timeline
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Qwen2.5-72B released
September 2024; open-weight flagship of the Qwen2.5 generation under Apache 2.0.
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