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OPT vs. Qwen

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OPT

OPT

Overview

Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models (OPT) is part of the family of open source models designed to replicate GPT-3, with similar decoder-only architecture. It has since been superseded by models such as LLaMA, GPT-J, and Pythia.



Initial release: 2022-05-03

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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
Open Source
License NA Custom
Model Sizes 1.3B, 2.7B, 6.7B, 13B, 30B, 66B, 175B 0.5B, 1.5B, 3B, 7B, 14B, 32B, 72B

Other OPT Comparisons

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

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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