Qwen
7 published articles
Physical AI
Alibaba's Qwen is now the brain inside 150,000 robots, cars, glasses, and drones
Alibaba's Qwen AI family now powers over 150,000 hardware devices, from humanoid robots to children's cameras, as the company pivots from chatbots to Physical AI, integrating multimodal models into robots, cars, glasses, and drones.
2026-07-14
Artificial Intelligence
Alibaba is betting the cloud, not the model, and it might work
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
AI Hardware
Alibaba's bet against the touchscreen is smarter than it looks
Alibaba's Qwen Glasses strategy reveals a broader industry shift: AI glasses are approaching a convergence of capability, user readiness, and viable economics. The winners will be those that build complete ecosystems, not just clever devices.
2026-07-13
Artificial Intelligence
Alibaba's Qoder shows developers what the AI is thinking, not just the code it wrote
Alibaba Cloud's Qoder coding agent bets that developers want visibility over magic. Two modes, automatic model routing, and a transparency layer aim to solve complexity instead of hiding it.
2026-07-12
Portfolio strategy
Alibaba's Qwen is building a model for every AI job, not just one to rule them all
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
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud's EMR Serverless Spark now processes images and video in plain SQL, no Python needed
Alibaba Cloud’s EMR Serverless Spark now supports images and video frames directly in SQL, letting data engineers skip Python overhead. A case study on autonomous driving data preprocessing shows automated ETL pipelines powered by Qwen vision models replacing manual annotation.
2026-07-09
Local AI Inference
Ollama rewrote its Apple engine. The M5 results are finally competitive.
Ollama previews MLX-backed inference on Apple silicon, pushing Qwen3.5-35B-A3B to 1,851 tok/s prefill on M5. The shift brings NVFP4 quantization for production parity and a smarter cache for agentic workflows.
2026-03-30