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Qwen 2 72B Instruct

qwen/qwen-2-72b-instruct

Released Jun 7, 202432,768 context

Qwen2 72B is a transformer-based model that excels in language understanding, multilingual capabilities, coding, mathematics, and reasoning.

It features SwiGLU activation, attention QKV bias, and group query attention. It is pretrained on extensive data with supervised finetuning and direct preference optimization.

For more details, see this blog post and GitHub repo.

Usage of this model is subject to Tongyi Qianwen LICENSE AGREEMENT.

Sample code and API for Qwen 2 72B Instruct

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 300+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.

In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

Using third-party SDKs

For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.

See the Request docs for all possible fields, and Parameters for explanations of specific sampling parameters.