Qwen news — Alibaba’s open model family: releases, benchmarks, downloads and the Qwen app’s rise in China and worldwide.
Qwen has passed three billion downloads, more than any other open model family. The reasons are practical: sizes, licences, timing and a licence that says yes.
Qwen is Alibaba's open AI model family, from tiny on-device models to frontier systems. Here is what it includes and why it keeps spreading worldwide.
Qwen and Llama are the two great open-weight model families, from Alibaba and Meta. Here is how their strategies and strengths really differ overall today.