Tag: qwen
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Qwen3.5-Omni: Alibaba’s Omnimodal AI Speaks 36 Languages and Codes from Voice
On March 30, 2026, Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3.5-Omni — a natively omnimodal AI model that processes text, images, audio, and video while generating real-time speech output. Available in three sizes (Plus, Flash, and Light), the model claims 215 state-of-the-art benchmark results and introduces features like semantic interruption, voice cloning, and an emergent “Audio-Visual Vibe […]
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Junyang Lin Steps Down as Qwen Tech Lead in Abrupt Departure
Key points On March 3, 2026, Junyang Lin, the tech lead and public face of Alibaba’s Qwen open-source AI project, announced his departure in a brief post on X reading “me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen.” The exit came just 24 hours after the Qwen team shipped the Qwen 3.5 small model series, and […]
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Qwen 3.5 Small Models: 9B Parameters That Beat 120B
Key points On March 2, 2026, Alibaba’s Qwen team completed the Qwen 3.5 family with four small dense models of 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters for on-device and edge deployment. All four models are open-weight under Apache 2.0 and available on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Qwen3.5-9B outperforms models 3-13 times its size across language, […]
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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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📢 Major Announcement: Qwen3‑ASR & Qwen3‑ForcedAligner Open Sourced
Alibaba’s Qwen3‑ASR family — a new advanced set of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models — has been officially open sourced, alongside a novel non‑autoregressive forced alignment model, Qwen3‑ForcedAligner. These models are designed as production‑ready, all‑in‑one speech intelligence systems that work across a wide range of languages and real‑world audio conditions. (Qwen) Key points The announcement […]
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📢 Qwen3‑TTS — Open‑Source Text‑to‑Speech (TTS) Family
Qwen3‑TTS is a new open‑source suite of advanced text‑to‑speech models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team. It brings cutting‑edge speech synthesis capabilities — including voice cloning, voice design, and multilingual generation — to developers, researchers, and creators. (qwen.ai) Key points Qwen3-TTS is a new open-source suite of advanced text-to-speech models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team, bringing […]
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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 […]