Qwen 1.5

Alibaba · 2024 · LLM · China

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Alibaba
C · CEO & Politics: Eddie Wu — Not publicly documented (PRC-based; operates under Chinese regulatory environment)
D · Date: 2024
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text
J · Jurisdiction: China
K · Key Staffers: Jingren Zhou (CTO, Tongyi Lab)
L · Languages: Chinese-primary
M · Model Type: LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (open weights; Tongyi Qianwen license, research-only license for the 0.5B, 1.8B and 4B sizes)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Alibaba's Qwen1.5, the beta version of Qwen2, first released in February 2024 as open base and chat models from 0.5B to 110B parameters plus a 14B mixture-of-experts model with 2.7B activated, all with a 32K context; the Qwen team reports better alignment with human preferences and stronger multilingual ability than the first Qwen, with Qwen1.5-72B beating Llama 2 70B on every benchmark it listed, and native Hugging Face Transformers support.
S · Stock / Status: $110 (BABA, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @AlibabaGroup
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights LLM from Alibaba, released 2024.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Qwen 1.5.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/qwen-15.html