Qwen 27B completes reverse engineering task in 30 minutes, rivaling frontier models
raybb · hn · 2026-08-23
A case study demonstrates Qwen 2.5 72B (referencing 27B/32B variants) successfully completing an unpacking and analysis task in just 30 minutes. The author compares it with frontier models like GPT-4o, suggesting Qwen offers strong performance in code understanding and practical engineering tasks.
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