OpenAssistant vs. Qwen

Overview

OpenAssistant is a project organized by LAION with aim of providing an open source alternative to ChatGPT. Its primary effort is to collected instruct examples to then tune existing LLMs. The first major release is available as part of Hugging Face's HuggingChat.

Initial release: 2023-04-15

Reference

https://open-assistant.io/

Further Reading

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddG2fM9i4Kk

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

Reference

https://qwenlm.github.io/

Further Reading

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16609
• https://huggingface.co/Qwen