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Tue, Sep 22
The Information says Alibaba named Dayiheng Liu head of its Qwen LLM project
Developers will feel a steadier Qwen release schedule sooner than they will feel a new title on the organization chart.
Mon, Sep 21
Alibaba open-sources Qwen-Image-2.1: 7B parameters, native transparency and ten reference images
7B parameters, native transparency and ten-image input on one consumer GPU — closed image APIs face real pricing pressure for the first time.
Wed, Sep 2
Alibaba updates Qwen3.8-Max to 1691 on the front-end coding leaderboard, taking first place
Taking first place at a quarter of the runner-up's price, Chinese models are fighting the coding race on cost, not on score.
Thu, Aug 27
Alibaba Open-Sources Qwen3.8-Flash-Next — 125B Model Activates Only 6B Parameters per Token
The one-ninth training-cost figure says more than any benchmark score about which battle the next-generation Qwen aims to win.
Tue, Aug 18
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B Tops Hugging Face Trending Chart, Passes 3 Million Downloads in Three Days
Three million downloads in three days measures not model ranking but the real appetite for local deployment.
Mon, Aug 17
Hugging Face: Qwen derivative models top 151,000, 2.6x Meta's count
The decisive factor in open-source competition isn't benchmark scores — it's how many people have already written code on your model that they can't easily rewrite.
Wed, Aug 5
Alibaba Releases 2.4-Trillion-Parameter Qwen3.8-Max, Says Max-Level Open Weights Next Week
What counts is no longer any one release, but the once-a-month release calendar.