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Gemma vs. Qwen

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Gemma

Gemma

Overview

Gemma is a family of lightweight open models from Google built using the same processes used for the the larger Gemini models.


Gemma was first released as a family of open models from Google -- 2B and 7B-parameter models, as of February 2024 -- intended for developers and compute-constrained devices. Despite their size, Gemma models compare favorably to other models of the same size such as the Mistral 7B model.


Initial release: 2024-02-21

Qwen

Qwen

Overview

Qwen is Alibaba Cloud's family of large language models, including chat models, code models, and multimodal variants. Qwen 3 and QwQ are the latest releases, with strong reasoning capabilities.


Qwen (formerly Tongyi Qianwen) is a comprehensive family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud. The series includes base models, chat models, code-specific variants (CodeQwen), and multimodal models (Qwen-VL). Qwen models excel at multilingual tasks and have become particularly popular in Asia. The latest releases include Qwen 3 and QwQ (focused on reasoning), competing effectively with Western counterparts while offering strong Chinese language support.


Initial release: 2023-09-13

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
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License Custom Custom
Model Sizes 2B, 7B 0.5B, 1.5B, 3B, 7B, 14B, 32B, 72B

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Other Qwen Comparisons

Qwen vs. Alpaca Qwen vs. Cerebras-GPT Qwen vs. DeepSeek Qwen vs. Dolly Qwen vs. Falcon Qwen vs. FastChat Qwen vs. FLAN-T5 Qwen vs. FLAN-UL2 Qwen vs. Gemma Qwen vs. Gemma 2 Qwen vs. GPT-J Qwen vs. GPT4All Qwen vs. GPTNeo Qwen vs. Grok Qwen vs. Guanaco Qwen vs. Koala Qwen vs. LLaMA Qwen vs. Llama 2 Qwen vs. Llama 3 Qwen vs. Llama 3.3 Qwen vs. Mistral Qwen vs. MPT Qwen vs. OpenAssistant Qwen vs. OpenLLaMA Qwen vs. OPT Qwen vs. Orca Qwen vs. Phi Qwen vs. Pythia Qwen vs. RedPajama-INCITE Qwen vs. StableLM Qwen vs. StableVicuna Qwen vs. Vicuna Qwen vs. WizardLM

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