Qwen2-Math drops to take on GPT-4o in reasoning
The Qwen team just released Qwen2-Math, a specialized math model series spanning 1.5B, 7B, and 72B parameters. The top-tier 72B instruct model outperforms frontier giants like GPT-4o, Claude-3.5-Sonnet, and Llama-3.1-405B across major math benchmarks. Why it matters: open specialized models are closing the gap on complex reasoning without needing hundreds of billions of parameters.