# Qwen
Qwen is a family of [[Large Language Models (LLMs)]] build by Alibaba Cloud.
Variants (as of 2025-02):
- Qwen2.5-Max: Most powerful
- Qwen2.5-Coder: Coding version
- Qwen2.5-Math: Math-specific LLM
- Qwen2.5-Plus: Complex tasks
- Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct: Vision LLM
- Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M: Long-context
- QVQ-72B-Preview: Visual reasoning (in preview)
- Qwen-Agent: Agent framework (function calling, code interpreter, RAG, Chrome extension)
- Qwen2-Audio: Chat and Audio LLM
Recent open-weight releases:
- [[Qwen3.6-35B-A3B]] — MoE (35B total / ~3B active), released April 2026; runs on consumer hardware via quantization
- [[Qwen3.6-27B]] — dense 27B, released 2026-04-22; replaces Qwen3.5-397B-A17B as the recommended default for agentic coding, fits on a single 24 GB consumer GPU at Q4_K_M (~16.8 GB)
## References
- Blog: https://qwenlm.github.io/
- Chat: https://github.com/QwenLM
- HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/Qwen
- Source code: https://github.com/QwenLM
- X: https://x.com/alibaba_qwen
- Qwen Agent: https://pypi.org/project/qwen-agent/