Alibaba said it has unified its large model brand under the name “Qwen.” The Chinese brand name will be “千问大模型,” while “Qwen” will be used in English. Tongyi Lab will remain the organizational name of Alibaba’s AI research unit. The Qwen portfolio includes foundation models and domain-specific models, while the Qwen app serves as its flagship consumer-facing AI application.
Alibaba said it open sourced Qwen 3.5 earlier this year and subsequently released multiple smaller Qwen 3.5 models. The company said Qwen 3.5 ranked in the top four on Hugging Face’s global open-source large model leaderboard. During the Lunar New Year period, users placed nearly 200 million “one-sentence” orders through the Qwen app, according to Alibaba. QuestMobile data showed the app reached 73.52 million daily active users during the holiday, up 940% from the previous period. [TechNode reporting]
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