Model · Qwen 2.5 · Reviewed June 2026

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Qwen2.5 72B

Alibaba Qwen · Qwen 2.5

72B parameter open-weight model. 72B with 128K context. Q4 requires 45 GB VRAM — multi-GPU (2×RTX 3090/4090) or Mac Studio with 64 GB+ unified memory. Near-frontier open-weight reasoning and multilingual performance.

Editorial review

Reviewed byOpenSourcesAI EditorialLast updatedJune 2026SourcesHuggingFace model card (Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct), official docs, OpenSourcesAI editorial review.

VRAM figures are empirical estimates. Actual usage varies by runtime, context length, and system configuration. Verify on your specific hardware before production use.

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