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GPT-4o (Aug 2024) vs Qwen2.5-72B (Instruct)

GPT-4o (Aug 2024) · OpenAI, released 2024-08-06
Qwen2.5-72B (Instruct) OPEN WEIGHTS · Alibaba, released 2024-09-19

“Epoch AI, 'AI Benchmarking Hub'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks' [online resource].” · epoch.ai/benchmarks · Licensed CC BY 4.0 · data last verified 2026-07-26 · Methodology · Data Sources

Head-to-head

Measured on 4 of 9 tracked benchmarks for both models — GPT-4o (Aug 2024) leads on 2, Qwen2.5-72B (Instruct) leads on 2.

Benchmark	GPT-4o (Aug 2024)	Qwen2.5-72B (Instruct)	Leads
Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI)	129.2	129.1	GPT-4o (Aug 2024)
SWE-bench Verified	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
GPQA Diamond	0.492	0.491	GPT-4o (Aug 2024)
MATH Level 5	0.533	0.632	Qwen2.5-72B (Instruct)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	0.064	0.081	Qwen2.5-72B (Instruct)
FrontierMath	0.003	Not measured	Not measured on both
FrontierMath Tier 4	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
SimpleQA Verified	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
Chess Puzzles	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both

Benchmark results measure specific tasks and should not be treated as a universal measure of model quality. A model with no row here for a benchmark has not been measured on it — that is left blank, never estimated.

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