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AREX 2 by BAAI

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AREX 2 is an open-source language model by BAAI. Features: 27b LLM, VRAM: 54.4GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.43.

  Arxiv:2609.38288   Agent Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3...   Base model:qwen/qwen3.8-27b   Conversational   Deep-research   Endpoints compatible   Image-text-to-text   Long-context   Qwen3 5   Reasoning   Region:us   Safetensors   Self-improvement   Sharded   Tensorflow   Tool-use
Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/BAAI/AREX-2 

AREX 2 Parameters and Internals

LLM NameAREX 2
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/BAAI/AREX-2 
Base Model(s)  Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B   Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
Model Size27b
Required VRAM54.4 GB
Updated2026-10-02
MaintainerBAAI
Model Typeqwen3_5
Model Files  5.2 GB: 1-of-11   5.3 GB: 2-of-11   5.3 GB: 3-of-11   5.3 GB: 4-of-11   5.3 GB: 5-of-11   5.3 GB: 6-of-11   5.3 GB: 7-of-11   5.3 GB: 8-of-11   5.3 GB: 9-of-11   4.3 GB: 10-of-11   2.5 GB: 11-of-11
Model ArchitectureQwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Licenseapache-2.0
Model Max Length262144
Transformers Version5.2.0
Tokenizer ClassTokenizersBackend
Padding Token<|endoftext|>
Errorsreplace

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