Qwen2-72B-Instruct

Qwen2-72B-Instruct matters chiefly as the starting point for the later Qwen main line. This older dense checkpoint accepts text, follows instructions, and provides 72 billion parameters for direct conversational answers. The repository documents a 131,072-token context window.

Qwen describes the later-generation Qwen 2.5 72B as an update with more knowledge, stronger coding and mathematics, and better structured-data output. It has its own training state and model card.