Alibaba (Qwen)
The Chinese giant behind the open-weight Qwen models
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WHAT IT IS
Alibaba was founded in 1999 and is a Chinese e-commerce and cloud-computing company. Its Qwen family has released open weights continuously since 2023, spanning language, vision and code at many sizes. The models are distributed both through cloud services and as open weights.
Why it matters
The Qwen family keeps releasing open weights at many parameter scales, making it one of the most widely fine-tuned base models in the global open-weight ecosystem.
Key milestones
- 1999
Founded
- 2023
Open-sourced the Qwen family