1. Introduction to the Qwen Model In April 2023, Alibaba released the beta version of Qwen. In December 2023, Alibaba open-sourced the first version of Qwen. In September 2024, Alibaba released Qwen2.5. In January 2025, Alibaba released Qwen 2.5-Max. Qwen 2.5 is the latest series of the Qwen large language