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Key people
Eddie Wu
CEO of Alibaba Group; head of the AI task force
Alibaba co-founder and group CEO since 2023, also chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud. Since March 2026 he personally leads the task force steering Qwen model development.
Zhou Jingren
CTO of Alibaba Cloud, head of Tongyi Lab (Qwen)
Chief technology officer of Alibaba Cloud and head of Tongyi Lab, Alibaba's core AI research unit. He took direct oversight of the Qwen project after tech lead Lin Junyang left in March 2026.
Events (9)
18 Sep 2026
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash
Model release3 Aug 2026
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4T-parameter flagship
Model release16 Feb 2026
Alibaba releases Qwen3.5 open-weight multimodal model
Open source24 Sep 2025
Alibaba launches trillion-parameter Qwen3-Max
Model release22 Jul 2025
Alibaba open-sources Qwen3-Coder
Open source5 Nov 2024
Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5 Coder and Qwen 2.5 72B instruct updates
Open source19 Sep 2024
Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5 model family
Open source7 Jun 2024
Alibaba releases Qwen 2 model family
Open source5 Feb 2024