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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has released the latest model in its ever-expanding Qwen family. This one is known as Qwen with Questions (QwQ), and serves as the latest open source competitor to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model.

Like other large reasoning models (LRMs), QwQ uses extra compute cycles during inference to review its answers and correct its mistakes, making it more suitable for tasks that require logical reasoning and planning like math and coding.

What is Qwen with Questions (OwQ?) and can it be used for commercial purposes?

Alibaba has released a 32-billion-parameter version of QwQ with a 32,000-token context. The model is currently in preview, which means a higher-performing version is likely to follow.

According to Alibaba’s tests, QwQ beats o1-preview on the AIME and MATH benchmarks, which evaluate mathematical problem-solving abilities. It also outperforms o1-mini on GPQA, a benchmark for scientific reasoning. QwQ is inferior to o1 on the LiveCodeBench coding benchmarks but still outperforms other frontier models such as GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.