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Grok vs. Qwen

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Grok

Grok

Overview

Grok is a mixture-of-experts model offered by xAI.


Grok is the flagship language model of xAI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk with close ties to X.com (FKA Twitter). Grok-1 was initialized released late in 2023 and later open-sourced in March of 2024. On March 28, 2024, Grok-1.5 was released with significantly better performance and a context length of 128,000 tokens.


Initial release: 2023-11-05

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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License Apache 2.0 Custom
Model Sizes 314B 0.5B, 1.5B, 3B, 7B, 14B, 32B, 72B