Qwen
Qwen (通义千问) is Alibaba's AI model family, and as of late 2025 also the name of its consumer-facing flagship: on November 14, 2025, Alibaba launched the Qwen App — upgraded from the Tongyi app and Quark's AI assistant, led by Alibaba intelligent information group president Wu Jia — as the group's "AI super entry point," explicitly benchmarked against ChatGPT. The model family itself had already been proven abroad before the app's domestic debut: in September 2025 seven Tongyi models sat in Hugging Face's global top ten, Qwen3-235B ranked first among open-source models on Chatbot Arena, and Qwen3-Max won the Alpha Arena live crypto-trading contest with a 22.3% return — with even Airbnb's CEO saying he relies heavily on the models. Since then Alibaba has kept extending the brand, wiring Qwen into Taobao and its commerce ecosystem and spinning out products like Qwen Office, which commissioned a custom Qwen 3.8 Flash model — though as of mid-2026 commentary from 葬AI framed the app as having arrived late to a ChatBot battle already won by ByteDance's Doubao, with Alibaba's bet now resting on continued Qwen model leadership to carry productivity agents.
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