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Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? Key figures depart in wake of latest open source release

Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers have been among the most prolific and well-regarded by international machine learning community — shipping dozens of powerful generalized and specialized generative models starting last summer, most of them entirely open source and free.But now, just 24 hours after shipping the open source Qwen3.5 small model series—a release that drew public praise from Elon Musk for its "impressive intelligence density"—the project’s technical architect and several other Qwen team members have exited the company under unclear circumstances, raising questions and concerns from around the world about the future direction of the Qwen team and its focus on open source. The departure of Junyang "Justin" Lin, the technical lead who steered [...]

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Open source Qwen-Image-2512 launches to compete with Google's Nano Banana Pro in high quality AI image generation

When Google released its newest AI image model Nano Banana Pro (aka Gemini 3 Pro Image) in November, it reset expectations for the entire field. For the first time, uses of an image model could use na [...]

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Qwen's new Deep Research update lets you turn its reports into webpages, podcasts in seconds

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s famously prolific Qwen Team of AI model researchers and engineers has introduced a major expansion to its Qwen Deep Research tool, which is available as an optiona [...]

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Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost

Alibaba dropped Qwen3.5 earlier this week, timed to coincide with the Lunar New Year, and the headline numbers alone are enough to make enterprise AI buyers stop and pay attention.The new flagship ope [...]

Match Score: 182.90

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z.ai debuts faster, cheaper GLM-5 Turbo model for agents and 'claws' — but it's not open-source

Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known for its powerful, open source GLM family of large language models (LLMs), has introduced GLM-5-Turbo, a new, proprietary variant of its open source GLM-5 model aimed at [...]

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Qwen3-Max Thinking beats Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 on Humanity's Last Exam (with search)

Chinese AI and tech firms continue to impress with their development of cutting-edge, state-of-the-art AI language models.Today, the one drawing eyeballs is Alibaba Cloud's Qwen Team of AI resear [...]

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Google's Nano Banana 2 takes aim at the production cost problem that's kept AI image gen out of enterprise workflows

For the last six months, enterprises wanting to deploy high quality AI image generation at scale have faced an uncomfortable trade-off: pay premium prices for Google's Nano Banana Pro model, or s [...]

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'Western Qwen': IBM wows with Granite 4 LLM launch and hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture

IBM today announced the release of Granite 4.0, the newest generation of its homemade family of open source large language models (LLMs) designed to balance high performance with lower memory and cost [...]

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Alibaba's new open source Qwen3.5-Medium models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

Alibaba's now famed Qwen AI development team has done it again: a little more than a day ago, they released the Qwen3.5 Medium Model series consisting of four new large language models (LLMs) wit [...]

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Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops

Despite political turmoil in the U.S. AI sector, in China, the AI advances are continuing apace without a hitch.Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused prim [...]

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