Alibaba has introduced Wan3.0, a video generation model that can create clips up to 30 seconds long in one run. Ana Maria Constantin reports for The Next Web that the launch follows Alibaba’s roughly $10.2 billion Hong Kong share placement, with all proceeds earmarked for AI investment. Wan3.0 had been available in public beta through …
Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-27B, an open-weight AI model designed to handle coding, reasoning, images and video on local machines. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the 27-billion-parameter model is available under the Apache 2.0 licence, allowing companies and developers to download, adapt and host it themselves. The release has attracted attention because of its balance …
Alibaba plans to require large commercial users of its upcoming Qwen3.8-Max AI model to share part of the revenue they generate from it, according to people familiar with the strategy. Stephen Nellis and Eduardo Baptista report for Reuters that the company intends to introduce the rule when it releases the next version of Qwen. The …
Alibaba has released a preview of Qwen3.8 Max, the latest flagship model from its Qwen AI unit. The company says the model ranks among the strongest systems now available and compares with leading frontier models. Bloomberg News reports that Alibaba describes Qwen3.8 Max as second only to Anthropic’s Fable 5. The Hangzhou based company makes …
Alibaba has released Qwen3.7-Max, a proprietary AI model built specifically for autonomous, long-running tasks. The model is available exclusively through Alibaba Cloud’s paid API and is not open source, marking a significant shift from the company’s previous approach. The Qwen Team, Alibaba’s AI research group, says the model completed a continuous 35-hour engineering task entirely …
Alibaba’s Qwen research team has released two new series of open source AI models that run on consumer hardware, from desktop PCs to smartphones. The releases cover a range of sizes, from 0.8 billion to 122 billion parameters, and are available for free download under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The …
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.5, a new artificial intelligence model designed to function as a multimodal agent capable of processing text, images, and video. The QwenTeam announces this development on the company’s website. The model contains 397 billion parameters but activates only 17 billion per task, which the team says optimizes both speed and cost. This …
Alibaba’s Qwen research team has released Qwen-Image-2.0, a foundational image generation model that merges text rendering, photorealism, and editing capabilities into a single system. The model supports native 2K resolution and processes instructions up to 1,000 tokens in length. The Qwen Team reports in the official Qwen Blog that the model can directly generate professional …
The Chinese technology company Alibaba has significantly upgraded its AI research tool, Qwen Deep Research. The tool can now automatically generate interactive webpages and multi-speaker podcasts from a single research report, in addition to its existing report-writing capabilities. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that these new features are available within the Qwen Chat web application. …
The Chinese technology company Alibaba has released Qwen3-Omni, a new generative AI model that can process a combination of text, images, audio, and video. The model is notable for its “omni-modal” capabilities and its open-source license, positioning it as a direct competitor to proprietary models from U.S. tech companies like OpenAI and Google. According to …