Qwen releases Qwen-Image-2.1 with transparent backgrounds and multi-image editing

Alibaba’s Qwen has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight image-generation and editing model with a 7 billion parameter visual component. Qwen announces in an official blog post that the model combines text-to-image generation, image editing, and native transparency support in one system. The release targets a growing demand for image models that can do more than create …

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Alibaba puts a 125-billion-parameter model on a 6-billion-parameter diet

Alibaba has introduced Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a multimodal AI model designed to deliver strong coding and workplace performance while using far less computing power than larger rivals. Matthias Bastian reports for The Decoder that the release also previews architectural ideas Alibaba plans to bring to its future Qwen4 model family. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next contains 125 billion parameters overall, but …

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Alibaba’s Wan3.0 targets business video at a fraction of Google Veo’s price

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 …

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Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B brings advanced AI tasks to local hardware

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 …

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Alibaba’s next Qwen model may no longer be free for big business

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 …

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Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 Max is a giant new contender in the AI arena

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 …

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Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Max brings autonomous AI agents to enterprise workflows

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 …

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Alibaba releases new Qwen3.5 models that run on laptops and phones

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 …

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Alibaba releases Qwen3.5, a multimodal AI model with 397 billion parameters

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 …

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Qwen-Image-2.0: Alibaba unifies image creation and editing

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 …

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