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Operates Qwen models and Bailian (阿里云百炼). Qwen3.8-Max is the strongest open-weights Chinese model (2.4T params, $2/$6 per 1M).
Operates Qwen models and Bailian (阿里云百炼). Qwen3.8-Max is the strongest open-weights Chinese model (2.4T params, $2/$6 per 1M).
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Alibaba open-sources Qwen3.8-Flash model with 90% lower training cost
Qwen3.8-Flash uses next-gen architecture, 125B params activate 6B, 1 yuan input / 3 yuan output per million tokens, prototype for Qwen4
SourceAlibaba QwenWork international public beta opens
QwenWork international beta via qwenwork.ai, integrated with Slack/Notion, ranked first in Jefferies evaluation
SourceThomson Reuters launches Thomson-1 on Qwen3.5
For table analysis and document review, gradually reducing reliance on Claude. Stanford LegalBench score 0.823.
SourceQwen App and PC support Alibaba Cloud Token Plan integration
Users can bind an API Key to consume Token Plan subscription in Work Assistant for complex tasks.
SourceQwen3.8-27B receives AMD Day 0 support
Runnable on AMD PCs/workstations with 24GB+ VRAM. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score 52.
SourceJack Ma and management buy HK$800M in Alibaba shares
Ma personally bought over HK$600M; Tsai and Wu combined HK$200M. In response to the HK$80B placement.
SourceAlibaba prices HK$80B Hong Kong placement, 100% to AI buildout
710M new shares at HK$112.70 to non-US persons outside the US, closing expected 8/26. Use of proceeds covers AI compute infrastructure expansion, large-model R&D iteration and commercial rollout. Alibaba's first follow-on placement since its 2019 Hong Kong dual primary listing.
SourceHK$80B share placement, 100% to full-stack AI
HK$80B share placement, 100% to full-stack AI
SourceAlibaba Tongyi App completes brand upgrade and becomes Qianwen at v5.0.0
Tongyi Qianwen, Qianwen 2C, Qianwen Office and other brand lines were consolidated under the unified Qianwen brand. On Aug 20 Alibaba merged Qianwen and AI Labs into an AI Labs and Applications division, upgrading AI from technology middle-office to a standalone business line.
SourceAlibaba open-sources Qwen-UI-Agent GUI agent foundation model
Qwen-UI-Agent covers mobile, desktop, web and deep search; trained on 100+ real devices and 150+ apps; MobileWorld 82.1, MobileWorld-Real 92.2, AndroidDaily 97.5, WebArena 73.6 (rank 1), OSWorld Verified 79.5. Includes 3D director mode, online RL on 100+ step trajectories. Technical report and code public.
SourceQwen Office integrates WeCom, covering all three major Chinese collaboration platforms
Aug 19 Qwen Office connected WeCom, DingTalk, Feishu, plus overseas Slack
SourceXuanTie C950 5nm RISC-V runs Qwen3.8-27B natively
Aug 19 completed Day 0 adaptation, native decoding 30 token/s, first-token latency 1.9s
SourceQwen3.8-27B multimodal open-sourced under Apache 2.0
On Aug 14 Alibaba open-sourced Qwen3.8-27B, a 27B-parameter multimodal dense model under Apache 2.0; on Aug 17 it topped Hugging Face trending.
SourceQwen open-model family passes 3B downloads globally
Hugging Face's Aug 14 report shows Qwen passing 3B cumulative downloads, ahead of Google's 418M and Meta's 227M.
SourceAlibaba Qwen global downloads surpass 3 billion, tops open-source
Hugging Face report shows Qwen August Hub downloads of 2.045 billion, cumulative global downloads above 3 billion, surpassing Google (418M) and Meta (227M). Over 300,000 derivative models.
SourceAlibaba open-sources Qwen3.8-27B multimodal model
27B parameter native multimodal dense model. Apache 2.0 license. 262K native context extending to 1M via YaRN. Runs in ~17GB VRAM after quantization on RTX 4090. DeepSWE 13.3 to 42.2.
SourceAlibaba Qwen Open Platform launches with SF Express, Ziroom, Yingmi Fund and more
On August 10 Qwen Open Platform launched, opening third-party agent integration to mobile, PC, and AI glasses.
SourceQwen App rolls out five features on Qwen3.8-MAX
Aug 7 App and PC roll out Thinking Research, Scheduled Tasks, Office Assistant, Voice Calls, Agent Marketplace
SourceQwen integrates with Apple Intelligence
Aug 8 Apple China website shows Mac can use Qwen through Apple Intelligence
SourceApple Intelligence integrates Alibaba Qwen
On August 8, Apple China confirmed Apple Intelligence works with Qwen, covering iOS/iPadOS/macOS/visionOS.
SourceCosyVoice Studio launches
Released Aug 7 with Qwen-Audio ranking first globally on ASR, RealTime, TTS
SourceQwen3.8-Max tops Artificial Analysis Agentic Index
On August 6, Artificial Analysis released its latest leaderboard with Qwen3.8-Max at 55.4, taking #1 globally on the Agentic Index as the first Chinese model to do so.
SourcePanjiu AL128 supernode server
128-card supernode, communication latency at 100-nanosecond level
SourceQwen3.7 Max released
Qwen3.7 Max released: 1M context, Intelligence Index 56.6 (#5 global, #1 China).
SourceQwen3-Max-Thinking launch
Jan 26, trillion-param, HLE 58.3 > GPT-5.2, API ¥2.5/¥10 per 1M
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