Athene V2

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The Athene V2 family is a collection of advanced open-source language models consisting of 72 billion parameters, developed by Nexusflow. Building upon the Qwen 2.5 72B base model, these models embody a focused post-training methodology that prioritizes enhancing specific functionalities over merely expanding model size. The family includes Athene-V2-Chat-72B, which is expertly tailored for conversational tasks like chat, coding, and mathematics, and Athene-V2-Agent-72B, which excels in complex agent-like roles, particularly in function calling and sophisticated data filtering tasks. The strategic development of Athene V2 models marks a paradigm shift, highlighting the importance of targeted training for achieving specialized, superior capabilities, sometimes even surpassing those of GPT-4o across various performance benchmarks 8.