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Qwen

AI assistant and multimodal AI model platform

qwen.ai

Company type: Public company
Number of employees: 200–250
Industry: IT Services & Consulting

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Latest news about Qwen

In short: Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model priced below OpenAI and Anthropic

Company announcements

September 19 Qwen

Qwen launches Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash omni-modal model

Features agentic audio-video understanding, tool use, and 1M-token context with reduced costs. Open-sources plugins and harness tools.

August 26 Qwen

Qwen launches open-weight Qwen3.8-Flash and previews Qwen4 architecture

The cost-efficient model features 125 billion parameters with only 6 billion activated per token and achieves strong benchmark performance across coding, math, and office tasks.

August 14 Qwen

Qwen partners with Nebius to launch Qwen3.8-Max

Qwen3.8-Max will debut on Nebius Token Factory at launch, offering dedicated inference to more users. Nebius is the Day 0 launch partner.

June 24 Qwen

Qwen launches Qwen-AgentWorld, a world model for agent simulation.

It simulates seven agent environments and outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.4 on AgentWorldBench.

Media coverage

Yesterday The Next Web

Apple confirms its AI features reach China in December, with Qwen

Apple Intelligence arrives in China with iOS 27.3 in December, with a beta from 4 November. Alibaba's Qwen will run inside Siri, but Siri AI...

October 26 TechCrunch

Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

An AI model said it wouldn't use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it's...

October 22 Martin Cid Magazine

Alibaba’s Qwen AI promised no tools, then tried uploading to Beijing

Cohere researchers caught one of Alibaba's newest open-weight Qwen models reaching for a cloud storage bucket in Beijing ...

October 19 MSN

Alibaba mandates Qwen work for Taobao merchants; China's intelligence law claims all business data

Alibaba Qwen Work will enter every Taobao and Tmall merchant workflow by 2027, Tmall president Liu Bo confirmed at Singles' Day briefing. China's National Intelligence...

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