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Qwen2 0.5B Base

The smallest base checkpoint in Alibaba Cloud's initial Qwen2 open-weight family, intended for lightweight multilingual language-model use.

DOOM SCORE32.3out of 100model risk profile, not the overall index
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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 3

Why this model scores 32.3

Very limited intrinsic capability and autonomy are offset by trivial local deployment and unrestricted replication of downloadable weights.

Capability20
Autonomy1
Deployment96
Misuse potential22
Control difficulty42
MODEL-ATTRIBUTED EVIDENCE

News tied to Qwen2 0.5B Base

The model score of 32.3 rates this model's risk profile. The overall Doom Index of 67.9 measures the complete temporally weighted evidence record. These values answer different questions.

NET MODEL-ATTRIBUTED INDEX CONTRIBUTION+0.01

Each article's current Doom Index contribution is divided equally among the exact models named on that article. This prevents multi-model evidence from being claimed in full on several model pages. Model risk scores use a bounded temporal offset around their technical profile, but never feed back into the overall index.

Capability TOWARD

Alibaba releases ten Qwen2 base and instruction models

Alibaba Cloud released Qwen2 weights spanning 0.5B to 72B parameters, including a 57B mixture-of-experts tier, with base and instruction variants and permissive commercial access for most sizes.

Full item contribution
+0.12
Qwen2 0.5B Base equal share
+0.01
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Model score history

  1. R3
    Doom Score 32.3

    Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-142416 under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.

    12 Aug 2026
  2. R2
    Doom Score 32.6

    Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-132112 under fixed-sensitivity-v3.

    12 Aug 2026
  3. R1
    Doom Score 33.4

    New exact Qwen2 0.5B base checkpoint.

    12 Aug 2026
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  1. Qwen2 0.5B Base by Alibaba has a DoomBench model risk score of 32.3 out of 100, based on five transparent version-specific dimensions rather than the overall index.

  2. Qwen2 0.5B Base's highest current DoomBench dimension is deployment at 96.0 out of 100; the profile publishes every component score and its editorial rationale.

  3. DoomBench links 1 source-backed evidence item to Qwen2 0.5B Base, while keeping the model's risk profile separate from each item's contribution to the live Doom Index.

    https://www.doombench.com/models/alibaba-cloud-qwen2-0-5b-base