Qwen
22 published articles
AI research
Alibaba's Qwen just turned world modeling into a language problem
Qwen-AgentWorld is a native language world model that simulates agent environments across seven domains. By making environment modeling the training objective from the start, it offers an alternative to video-based world models and domain-specific simulators for embodied AI.
2026-07-19
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
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
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
AI Hardware
Alibaba's bet against the touchscreen: the tipping point for AI glasses may already be here
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 new AI coder shows you every thought it has, not just the finished code
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
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
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
Enterprise AI
Alibaba just gave enterprise teams a way to encode their expertise into AI plugins
Alibaba Cloud's QoderWork Plugins let teams encode their working knowledge, SOPs, and tool integrations into AI-executable suites. The first official set covers legal, finance, consulting, and product management, but the real target is letting domain experts build custom plugins without writing code.
2024-01-03