VentureBeat November 29, 2024
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has released the latest model in its ever-expanding Qwen family. This one is known as Qwen with Questions (QwQ), and serves as the latest open source competitor to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model.
Like other large reasoning models (LRMs), QwQ uses extra compute cycles during inference to review its answers and correct its mistakes, making it more suitable for tasks that require logical reasoning and planning like math and coding.
What is Qwen with Questions (OwQ?) and can it be used for commercial purposes?
Alibaba has released a 32-billion-parameter version of QwQ with a 32,000-token context. The model is currently in preview, which means a higher-performing version is likely to follow.
According to Alibaba’s tests, QwQ beats...