--- title: Alibaba Releases Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B: A Small MoE Model... description: Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B is an improved version of Qwen, a Large Language Model (LLM) series developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud. It performs on par with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/alibaba-releases-qwen1-5-moe-a2-7b-a-small-moe-model-with-only-2-7b-activated-parameters-yet-matchi-y4t2xirgw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Alibaba Releases Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B: A Small MoE Model with only 2.7B Activated Parameters yet Matching the Performance of State-of-the-Art 7B models like Mistral 7B | daily.dev og:description: Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B is an improved version of Qwen, a Large Language Model (LLM) series developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud. 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It performs on par with heavyweight 7B models like Mistral 7B and Qwen1.5-7B, despite having only 2.7 billion activated parameters. The architecture of Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B utilizes fine-grained experts and a generalized MoE routing paradigm. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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