DeepSeek challenger: Alibaba Qwen can now also "think"
The QwQ reasoning model is significantly leaner than DeepSeek R1 and is said to be more powerful in many areas.
Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases QwQ-32B Open-Source Reasoning Model, Said to Perform Similar to DeepSeek-R1
These reasoning models were designed to offer an open-source alternative for the likes of OpenAI's o1 series. The QwQ-32B is a 32 billion parameter model developed by scaling reinforcement learning ...