Tag: alibaba
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Qwen 3.5 Medium Series: Frontier AI That Fits on Your GPU
Key points On February 24, 2026, Alibaba’s Qwen team expanded the Qwen 3.5 family with three Apache 2.0 open-weight models — Qwen3.5-27B, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B — available on Hugging Face. Qwen3.5-27B is a dense model with all 27 billion parameters active at inference, optimized for coding and instruction-following, and uses a 3:1 hybrid ratio of […]
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Qwen 3.5: Alibaba’s Native Multimodal Agent Model Arrives
Key points Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen 3.5 on February 16, 2026, with a flagship 397B-parameter mixture-of-experts model built for the agentic AI era. The flagship Qwen3.5-397B-A17B activates only 17 billion parameters per forward pass despite having 397 billion total parameters. Listed specifications include a 256K-token native context window, 1M tokens on the hosted Qwen3.5-Plus, […]
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Qwen3-Coder-Next: Alibaba’s Ultra-Sparse 80B Coding Agent
Key points Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3-Coder-Next in February 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license, an open-weight coding model that activates only 3 billion of its 80 billion total parameters per forward pass. On SWE-Bench Verified with the SWE-Agent scaffold the model scores 70.6%, and it also scores 62.8% on SWE-Bench Multilingual and 44.3% on […]
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Z-Image: Alibaba’s Efficient 6B Open-Source Image Generation Model
Key points Alibaba’s Tongyi MAI team released Z-Image, a family of 6-billion-parameter image generation models that it says matches closed-source models with 20B+ parameters at a fraction of the compute cost. Released in November 2025, Z-Image-Turbo ranked 1st among open-source models on the Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image Leaderboard. Z-Image is a suite of variants rather than […]
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Qwen3-VL: The Next Generation Multimodal LLM from Qwen / Alibaba Cloud
Introduction Qwen3-VL is the new flagship multimodal large language model (LLM) series developed by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud. (GitHub)It advances both text and vision capabilities, enabling richer understanding and generation across mixed modalities (images, video, text). Key points Qwen3-VL is the flagship multimodal large language model series from the Qwen team at Alibaba […]
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Introducing Qwen-Image-Edit-2509: Enhanced Image Editing Capabilities
Key points Qwen-Image-Edit-2509, the latest iteration of the Qwen-Image-Edit model, has been officially released with improvements in multi-image editing, single-image consistency and ControlNet compatibility. It enables editing of multiple images simultaneously, supporting combinations such as “person + product” or “scene + object” and giving optimal results with 1-3 input images. Improvements to single-image consistency target […]
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Alibaba Unveils Qwen3-Omni Series: Revolutionizing Multimodal AI with Advanced Capabilities
Alibaba’s Qwen3-Omni series marks a significant advancement in multimodal AI, offering three specialized models tailored for diverse applications. These models—Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking, and Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Captioner—are designed to handle text, images, audio, and video with enhanced efficiency and performance. Key points Alibaba’s Qwen3-Omni series offers three specialized models, Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct, Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Thinking and Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Captioner, designed to handle text, images, audio […]
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Understanding Qwen 3 Max: Official Benchmarks and Open-Source Implications
Key points Qwen 3 Max is described as part of Alibaba’s advanced large language model series, and the post says it has recently sparked discussions around its performance benchmarks and potential open-source status. The post lists benchmark areas of natural language understanding, code generation, and multilingual support, saying the model demonstrates superior performance in understanding […]
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Qwen-Image-Edit: What It Is & What It Can Do
Overview Qwen-Image-Edit is a newly released image editing model by Alibaba’s Qwen team, unveiled in August 2025. It builds on the powerful 20B-parameter Qwen-Image foundation model and enhances its functionality with advanced editing capabilities (Hugging Face, Qwen). Key points Qwen-Image-Edit is an image editing model released by Alibaba’s Qwen team in August 2025 and built […]
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Wan2.2: Alibaba’s Open‑Source Breakthrough in AI Video Generation
The Wan2.2 project (hosted at Wan‑Video/Wan2.2) marks another leap forward in large‑scale, open, consumer‑accessible video generative models developed by the Wan‑AI team at Alibaba Cloud (GitHub). Released on July 28, 2025, this upgrade offers major technical advancements over the previous Wan2.1 version (Hugging Face). Key points The Wan-AI team at Alibaba Cloud released Wan2.2 on […]