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Qwen

Open-source multimodal AI models and platform

qwen.ai

Company type: Public company
Number of employees: 50–225
Industry: IT Services & Consulting

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Latest news about Qwen

In short: Qwen released the Qwen 3.8 model series, including a 2.4-trillion-parameter Max version, and surpassed 3 billion global downloads.

Company announcements

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.

June 16 Qwen

Qwen introduces the Qwen-Robot Suite for embodied intelligence

The suite comprises three foundation models: Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, and Qwen-RobotWorld.

Media coverage

September 10 TechCrunch

Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the...

August 26 TNW

Qwen4’s architecture is here early, firing 6B parameters out of 125B

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next activates 6B of its 125B parameters per token. Its licence, not its architecture, is the part that matters under the EU AI Act.

August 25 Bloomberg

Alibaba Releases Smaller, Cost-Effective Qwen AI Model

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released the latest model under its popular Qwen series, a lower-priced platform aimed at driving adoption of its marquee AI offering...

August 19 India Today

China's Qwen AI gets uncensored version, it will take illegal and unethical requests from users

China's Qwen AI has an uncensored version that accepts illegal and unethical user requests. The development spotlights how ...

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