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Qwen

22 articles accelerating

Qwen has appeared in 22 articles since 2024-06. Coverage peaked in 2025Q3 with 7 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Alibaba, China, Chinese, Simon Willison / @simonw.

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22
mentions
Velocity
+50.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.214
velocity change
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12
publications

Coverage Timeline

2026-03-04
TechCrunch 11 related

Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down, and two other team members leave; one contributor says “I know leaving wasn't your choice”

Alibaba's Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the Chinese tech giant unveiled its new Qwen 3.5 open-weight small models.

2026-02-12
The Information 3 related

Alibaba says Qwen's e-commerce service, offering a ~$3.60 voucher, generated 120M+ orders from Chinese users over the past six days, ahead of the Lunar New Year

Alibaba Group said its Qwen chatbot app's AI e-commerce service has generated more than 120 million orders from Chinese consumers …

2026-01-15
Bloomberg 9 related

Alibaba links Qwen to its online shopping and travel services, including Taobao, Alipay, Fliggy, and Amap, aiming to build a one-stop AI app for its 100M users

2025-12-10
Bloomberg 7 related

Sources: Meta's new AI model, codenamed Avocado, may launch in spring 2026 as a “closed” model, and was trained using Google's Gemma, OpenAI's gpt-oss, and Qwen

Meta Platforms Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg, months into building one of the priciest teams in technology history …

2025-10-02
Wired 13 related

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launches its first product, Tinker, an API for fine-tuning language models, in private beta, with support for Qwen and Llama

Today, we are launching Tinker, a flexible API for fine-tuning language models. Moneycontrol : Ex-OpenAI CEO Mira Murati stealth AI lab launches its first ever product Matthias Bastian / The Decoder :...

2025-09-24
Simon Willison's Weblog 10 related

Alibaba releases the Qwen3-VL vision models, the Qwen3Guard “safety moderation” models, and three closed-weight models, including Qwen3-Max with 1T+ parameters

Qwen 50.6k  —  Safetensors qwen3_vl_moe Julian Nabil / Forbes Middle East : Alibaba Introduces Qwen3-Max AI Model With Over 1T Parameters Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Alibaba Releases Qwen3-VL O...

2025-09-12
Alizila 6 related

Alibaba releases Qwen3-Next, a new model architecture optimized for long-context understanding, large parameter scale, and better computational efficiency

the FUTURE of efficient LLMs is here! 🔹 80B params, but only 3B activated per token → 10x cheaper training, 10x faster inference than Qwen3-32B.(esp. @ 32K+ context!) 🔹Hybrid Architecture: Gated Delta...

2025-08-13
Wall Street Journal

Open-source AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and others driving global adoption of Chinese AI tech jolts US policymakers and companies to respond

Free-to-use models from DeepSeek, Alibaba and others gain users worldwide  —  China's ambition to turn its open-source artificial-intelligence models … Bluesky: @martijnrasser Bluesky: Martijn Rasser ...

2025-08-06
Wired 51 related

OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM

gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good OpenAI on GitHub : ...

2025-07-23
Qwen 14 related

Alibaba debuts the Qwen3-Coder model for agentic coding, including a 480B-parameter MoE variant, and open sources Qwen Code, a CLI tool adapted from Gemini CLI

Qwen 39.4k  —  Text Generation Transformers Safetensors qwen3_moe conversational Coco Feng / South China Morning Post : Alibaba upgrades flagship Qwen3 model to outperform OpenAI, DeepSeek in maths, c...

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

TEXXR tracks 71 Techmeme articles mentioning Qwen, dating back to August 2023. The biggest stories include Nvidia debuts Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer model, saying it achieves... and Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model that the company's cloud unit claims.... Frequently covered alongside LLM, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Apache 2.0, Qwen AI, and Gemini. Coverage has shifted toward consumer, enterprise themes and away from competition, research.

Key Moments

2024Q3competition -100pts
2024Q4developer +33pts; research -33pts
2025Q1safety +11pts; developer -22pts; consumer +11pts

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