Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation model development, after the resignation of its Qwen AI head Lin Junyang
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (9988.HK) said on Thursday it would set up a new task force to accelerate foundation model development …
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Discussion
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@poezhao0605
Poe Zhao
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Alibaba pushed back on rumors today, per Yicai (China's leading financial news outlet). The Qwen team is stable. Open source remains the strategy. And the foundation model group has never carried commercial KPIs. Their mandate is to push model intelligence, not monetization [imag…
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@elliotarledge
Elliot Arledge
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sooooo elon poached a bunch of qwen engineers [image]
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@osanseviero
Omar Sanseviero
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Qwen friends: if any of you want a new home to build great models and contribute to the open models ecosystem, please reach out! Lots of exciting things in the roadmap and so much to build ahead of us
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@surmenok
Pavel Surmenok
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Alibaba is nothing without its Qwen people
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@natolambert
Nathan Lambert
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If anyone at @AlibabaGroup needs a report on Qwen's impact in order to make changes to keep the team happy I can throw it together. Qwen's hitting open model numbers Llama never even did. Most successful open model family of all time. Just keep it going, don't overthink.