Qwen / Alibaba
Qwen 2.5, QwQ, Qwen-VL and Alibaba Cloud's family of open source models.
17 published articles
Embodied AI
Qwen's new robotics models skip the usual AI shortcut
Alibaba's Qwen team released three robotics-specific foundation models and a world model for agent environments, shifting from general-purpose vision-language models to purpose-built architectures for physical action.
2026-07-18
AI Strategy
Alibaba's $53 billion bet: from lab curiosities to hospitals and pig farms
Alibaba details a first-half 2026 AI update: a new token business unit, Qwen3.7-Max, video model HappyHorse, and a $53 billion infrastructure build-out. The strategy moves Alibaba from research to real-world enterprise and consumer AI deployment.
2026-07-17
AI Labs & Research
An AI that can see its own mistakes and undo them
A training-free AI sampler that generates images and text together, retracting decisions when cross-modal signals contradict each other. The paper's CO₂Jump outperforms existing methods and suggests a structural fix for a blind spot in multimodal AI.
2026-07-17
Cloud strategy
Alibaba's AI bet: lock in the enterprise before the model race is over
Alibaba is betting the second half of 2026 on an integrated AI stack, not a single flagship model. Its strategy is to lock enterprises into its cloud via interoperable infrastructure, from agentic O&M to data warehousing, rather than to win benchmark titles.
2026-07-14
Portfolio strategy
Qwen isn't chasing a single champion model, it's building a fleet
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen team quietly released a 35B MoE agent world model, three new ASR models, and an image-generation RL report, revealing a strategic bet on breadth over spectacle in the AI model race.
2026-07-09