Tag: Qwen

Junyang Lin, a central technical leader on Alibaba’s Qwen AI project, announced his departure just after the company unveiled the Qwen 3.5 Small Model series. The launch introduced four multimodal models ranging from 0.8B to 9B parameters and drew praise from industry figures. Colleagues and partners described Lin’s exit as a significant loss for the open‑weight AI effort. Alibaba has not commented on the reasons for the move or on future leadership of the Qwen team. Leggi di più

Researchers from Tsinghua University, the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence, and Pennsylvania State University have created a system that lets large language models pose challenging Python coding problems for themselves, solve them, and use the outcomes to improve. The approach, called Absolute Zero Reasoner, showed notable gains in coding and reasoning abilities for open‑source models and suggests a new path toward more autonomous AI learning. Leggi di più

Meta has completed a high‑profile acquisition of Manus, an AI startup famed for its custom research and website‑building agents. Valued at more than $2 billion, the deal marks one of the largest purchases of a company emerging from China’s AI ecosystem. Manus, originally known as Butterfly Effect, describes itself as “the first general AI agent,” drawing on models such as Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Alibaba’s Qwen to automate tasks ranging from market research to coding. The startup, now based in Singapore after laying off most of its Beijing staff, claims to serve millions of users and generate over $100 million in annualized revenue just eight months after launch. Leggi di più

The open‑weight large language model Qwen, developed by Alibaba, is rapidly gaining global traction. Its ease of download and modification has led to integration across a range of products, from smart glasses to vehicle dashboards, and adoption by companies such as Rokid, BYD, Airbnb, Perplexity, Nvidia, and even Meta. The model’s popularity contrasts with the lukewarm reception of recent U.S. releases like GPT‑5 and Llama 4, highlighting a shift toward openly shared AI research in China and a broader impact measured by real‑world usage rather than narrow benchmarks. Leggi di più