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Qwen

Alibaba Cloud, served by Groq

The open one, the one you can take home

Qwen is Alibaba Cloud's model family, with downloadable weights under the Apache 2.0 licence: anyone with the hardware can run it on their own servers, sending nothing to anyone. Here it runs on Groq's hardware, which makes it answer before all the others.

What it is like

Qwen is the answer to the question "what if I do not want to send my data anywhere". The weights download, the model runs on your machines, and the sentences you type stay where they are. For a hospital, a law firm or a company whose data cannot leave, this is not a technical preference, it is the only road. In exchange you give up something on hard problems, where the frontier models stay ahead.

Two names not to confuse: Groq with a q is the chip company that runs Qwen here. Grok with a k is Elon Musk's model, a different thing from a different company.

Where it is strong

• Open weights under the Apache 2.0 licence: runs on your servers, data stays in
• On Groq hardware it answers well before the others
• Cheap, and in-house the only cost is the machine
• You can adapt it to your work instead of adapting to it

Where it falls

• On hard problems it stays below the frontier models
• Most of the documentation and comparisons out there are in English or Chinese
• Running it in-house needs machines and someone to keep them up

When it is worth using

Data that cannot leave the company, high volumes, instant answers.

One test to run on it

Ask it and a frontier model the same question, and time the difference.

Open Qwen and try it ↗

What it does inside Grace

It joins the seven way comparison, and it is usually the first to answer.

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The AIs Grace compares

• Claude: Writes long without losing the thread, and says when it does not know
• ChatGPT: The best known, and the one that sounds certain even when it is wrong
• Gemini: The one that lives inside Google, with the roomiest memory
• Mistral: The European one: fast, light, and with the data staying here
• Grok: Wired into X, with the loosest tongue of them all
• Perplexity: Answers with the sources at the bottom, so you can check it

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