// about Qwen
Qwen (short for Tongyi Qianwen) is Alibaba's family of large language models, available in sizes from 0.5B to 235B parameters and consistently ranking among the top open-weight models on coding, reasoning, and multilingual benchmarks. The Qwen2.5 and QwQ reasoning models have attracted significant attention for outperforming models many times their size. Freely available for download and commercial use, Qwen is widely run through Ollama, LM Studio, and Hugging Face by developers looking for capable open alternatives to proprietary APIs.