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Qwen 2 72B Instruct

qwen/qwen-2-72b-instruct

Model weights

Qwen2 72B is a transformer-based model that excels in language understanding, multilingual capabilities, coding, mathematics, and reasoning.

It features SwiGLU activation, attention QKV bias, and group query attention. It is pretrained on extensive data with supervised finetuning and direct preference optimization.

For more details, see this blog post(opens in new tab) and GitHub repo(opens in new tab).

Usage of this model is subject to Tongyi Qianwen LICENSE AGREEMENT(opens in new tab).

Modalities

Context

33K

Released

Jun 7, 2024

Knowledge Cutoff

Jun 2024

ActivityFAQ

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

About Qwen 2 72B Instruct

OpenRouter makes Qwen 2 72B Instruct available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID qwen/qwen-2-72b-instruct.

Qwen 2 72B Instruct accepts text and returns text. It has a 32,768-token context window.

It was released on June 7, 2024; its knowledge cutoff is June 30, 2024.

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Frequently asked questions

Qwen2 72B is a transformer-based model that excels in language understanding, multilingual capabilities, coding, mathematics, and reasoning. It features SwiGLU activation, attention QKV bias, and group query attention. It is pretrained on extensive data with supervised finetuning and direct preference optimization. For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

Qwen 2 72B Instruct has a 32,768 token context window.

Qwen3.8 27B, Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B, Qwen3.8 Max and 47 more are other text models from Qwen.

Qwen 2 72B Instruct was released on June 7, 2024. Its knowledge cutoff is June 30, 2024.