2026-03-04
me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen.
TechCrunch
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.
2026-03-03
final shot. these are the small models that i told u!
VentureBeat
Alibaba releases its open-weight Qwen3.5 Small Model Series in 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes, claiming the 9B model rivals OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on some benchmarks
Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused primarily on developing and releasing to the world …
2026-03-02
final shot. these are the small models that i told u!
VentureBeat
Alibaba releases the open-weight Qwen3.5 Small Model Series in 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes, claiming the 9B model rivals OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on some benchmarks
2026-02-17
Qwen3.5 is Live! Today we openweight the first model, Qwen3-397B-A17B, which is a native multimodal model supporting both thinking and non-thinking modes. We have strengthened its coding and agentic capabilities to foster productivity for developers and enterprises. Hope you
Reuters
Alibaba debuts Qwen3.5, a 397B-parameter open-weight multimodal AI model that it says is 60% cheaper to use and 8x better at large workloads than Qwen3
A clarification of Qwen3.5 Plus and 397B: 1. for opensource, we follow the tradition to make parameters apparent so we use the name with the number of total parameters and active params. 2. Qwen3-Plus is a hosted API version of 397B. As the model natively supports 256K tokens, Qwen3.5-Plus supports 1M token context length. Additionally it supports search and code interpreter, which you can use on Qwen Chat with Auto mode.
Reuters
Alibaba debuts Qwen3.5, a 397B-parameter open-weight multimodal AI model that it says is 60% cheaper to use and 8x better at large workloads than Qwen3
2026-02-16
Qwen3.5 is Live! Today we openweight the first model, Qwen3-397B-A17B, which is a native multimodal model supporting both thinking and non-thinking modes. We have strengthened its coding and agentic capabilities to foster productivity for developers and enterprises. Hope you
Reuters
Alibaba debuts Qwen3.5, a 397B-parameter open-weight multimodal AI model that it says is 60% cheaper to use and 8x better at large workloads than Qwen3
A clarification of Qwen3.5 Plus and 397B: 1. for opensource, we follow the tradition to make parameters apparent so we use the name with the number of total parameters and active params. 2. Qwen3-Plus is a hosted API version of 397B. As the model natively supports 256K tokens, [image]
Reuters
Alibaba debuts Qwen3.5, a 397B-parameter open-weight multimodal AI model that it says is 60% cheaper to use and 8x better at large workloads than Qwen3
2026-01-27
besides the capabilities mentioned in the tweet, i would like to invite you to play with the new thinking model on https://chat.qwen.ai/ . this time we level up the user experience by integrating search and code interpreter and memory in thinking. try to see if it is a better
Qwen
Qwen releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking, its flagship reasoning model that it says demonstrates performance comparable to models such as GPT-5.2 Thinking and Opus 4.5
· QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文 — Introduction# — We present Qwen3-Max-Thinking, our latest flagship reasoning model.
2026-01-26
besides the capabilities mentioned in the tweet, i would like to invite you to play with the new thinking model on https://chat.qwen.ai/ . this time we level up the user experience by integrating search and code interpreter and memory in thinking. try to see if it is a better
Qwen
Qwen releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking, its flagship reasoning model that it says demonstrates performance comparable to models such as GPT-5.2 Thinking and Opus 4.5
2025-09-24
This is the 5th shot! Super crazy! We opensourced a 235B-A22B Instruct and Thinking Qwen3-VL models under Apache 2.0! Qwen3-VL, the new generation of our vision-language model, whose previous version was released a long time ago. During these days, we have conducted a lot of
Bloomberg
Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares hit a nearly four-year high after CEO Eddie Wu announced plans to increase AI spending beyond the $53B target over three years
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s shares surged to their highest in nearly four years after revealing plans to ramp up AI spending past …
This is the 1st shot! For a long time people just don't have any idea about the safety work that we have invested efforts in. This time, we show you our safety guard model,Qwen3 Guard, specifically including generative guard Qwen3Guard-Gen and streaming guard model with
Bloomberg
Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares hit a nearly four-year high after CEO Eddie Wu announced plans to increase AI spending beyond the $53B target over three years
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s shares surged to their highest in nearly four years after revealing plans to ramp up AI spending past …
This is the 1st shot! For a long time people just don't have any idea about the safety work that we have invested efforts in. This time, we show you our safety guard model,Qwen3 Guard, specifically including generative guard Qwen3Guard-Gen and streaming guard model with
Simon Willison's Weblog
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...
This is the 5th shot! Super crazy! We opensourced a 235B-A22B Instruct and Thinking Qwen3-VL models under Apache 2.0! Qwen3-VL, the new generation of our vision-language model, whose previous version was released a long time ago. During these days, we have conducted a lot of
Simon Willison's Weblog
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...
2025-09-23
Qwen3-Omni finally, damn it is more than half a year since the release of Qwen2.5-Omni! Last time we thought that we had some successful attempt on unifying audio understanding and generation, yet we were still building small 7B model and we were far lagging behind on data
Venturebeat
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Omni, a family of open-source AI models that can process text, audio, image, and video inputs and generate both text and speech outputs
Introduction — Qwen3-Omni is the natively end-to-end multilingual omni-modal foundation models. Prasanth Aby Thomas / Computerworld : New Alibaba model Qwen3-Omni heightens compe...
2025-09-06
I just have a feeling that... it is much smarter. Not reflected by the common benchmarks, but it is just way better than the models before. This gives us much confidence in scaling, either model or data size.
VentureBeat
Alibaba debuts Qwen3-Max-Preview, its largest AI model with over 1T parameters, showcasing strong benchmark performance; the model is not open source
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's “Qwen Team” of AI researchers has done it again. After a busy summer in which the AI lab released …
2025-08-20
fxxk! damn! we r stupid! yesterday we made a mistake on diffusers affecting qwen chat, causing a lot of strange cases. just fixed! give it another shot! sorry to disappoint u but trust me, we won't intentionally dump shit on u!
VentureBeat
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing version of Qwen-Image, supporting modifying Chinese and English text while preserving font, size, and style
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat :
2025-08-06
Now it is on Qwen Chat ( https://chat.qwen.ai/). Use text to image only. Edit will be there soon (edit is still the old VLo).
VentureBeat
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image, an open-source AI image generation model focused on accurately rendering text, with support for alphabetic and logographic scripts
After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models …
2025-04-29
Qwen3 is finally out! It really takes some time for our guys to figure out methods to solve some problems that are not fancy. How to scale RL with stable training, how to balance data from different domains, how to increase the support of more languages with performance
TechCrunch
Alibaba debuts its Qwen3 family of open-weight “hybrid” AI reasoning models, including Qwen3-235B-A22B, with 235B total parameters and 22B activated parameters
Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen3, a family of AI models the company claims matches …
2025-01-29
Actually compared with Qwen2.5-Max with more attention, I love Qwen2.5-VL as much. We guys suffered quite a bit in either data and training, we have tried the best to strike a balance between benchmarks and human preferences. I think this time you will find more surprises in the
Reuters
Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model that the company's cloud unit claims “outperforms” GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B “almost across the board”
Chinese tech company Alibaba (9988.HK) on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model …
Qwen2.5-Max is here. Looks good at benchmarks and I hope you guys can give it a try and see how you feel about this new model! Qwen Chat: https://chat.qwenlm.ai/ (choose Qwen2.5-Max for the model) API is available through Alibaba Cloud service.| Happy new year!
Reuters
Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Max, an AI model that the company's cloud unit claims “outperforms” GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, and Llama-3.1-405B “almost across the board”
Chinese tech company Alibaba (9988.HK) on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model …