# QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is an AI model released by Qwen on Mar 6 2025. It has 32B parameters, a 128k context window and open weight.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Model | QwQ-32B |
| Developer | Qwen |
| Release date | Thursday, Mar 6 2025 |
| Licensing | Open Weight |
| Parameters | 32B |
| Context window | 128k |

## About QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B, released March 6, 2025 under Apache 2.0, was Qwen's answer to the reasoning-model wave that DeepSeek-R1 had set off six weeks earlier. It followed QwQ-32B-Preview from November 2024, and where the preview was explicitly experimental, the March release was a finished reinforcement-learning-trained reasoning model with a 128K context window.

The pitch was compression rather than scale: Alibaba positioned a 32B dense model as competitive with DeepSeek-R1, a 671B mixture-of-experts model, on mathematics and coding evaluations. That mattered practically as much as competitively — a 32B model runs on a single high-end GPU, so it put a frontier-style reasoning model within reach of individuals rather than clusters. The approach was folded into the main line two months later when Qwen3 shipped with switchable thinking modes built in.

## Questions and answers

### When was QwQ-32B released?

QwQ-32B was released by Qwen on Thursday, Mar 6 2025.

### Who made QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B was built by Qwen. Alibaba's AI lab, building the Qwen family. The most prolific publisher of open-weight models of any major lab, alongside a proprietary Max and Plus tier sold through Alibaba Cloud.

### What is the context window of QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B has a context window of 128k. That is the maximum amount of input plus output the model can hold in a single request.

### How many parameters does QwQ-32B have?

QwQ-32B is reported at 32B parameters.

### Is QwQ-32B open source?

Partly. QwQ-32B is an open-weight model: the trained weights are free to download and run locally or on your own infrastructure, but the training data and code are not fully released and the license may restrict some commercial uses. It is not open source in the strict sense.

### What came before and after QwQ-32B?

Qwen's previous tracked release was Qwen2.5-Max on Jan 28 2025, 37 days earlier. It was followed by Qwen3 on Apr 29 2025.


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