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 …
Alibaba has launched a new generation of AI models called Qwen3-Next, designed for high performance with low computational cost. Crystal Liu writes for Alibaba that the new architecture uses several innovations to achieve this efficiency. The first model in the series, Qwen3-Next-80B, is now open source. According to the company, this 80-billion-parameter model only activates …
The generative AI consumer app ecosystem is beginning to stabilize after years of rapid change, according to new data from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The firm’s fifth edition of its Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps ranking shows only 11 new entries on the web list, down from 17 newcomers in March 2025. Google …
Alibaba’s Qwen Team has released a new open-source AI model named Qwen-Image Edit that allows users to modify images using simple text instructions. The tool is capable of performing a wide range of complex editing tasks that challenge established software like Adobe Photoshop. According to an article by Carl Franzen for VentureBeat, users can upload …
Alibaba’s Qwen Team has released a new open source AI image generator called Qwen-Image. According to its developers, the model specializes in creating images with accurately rendered text in both English and Chinese, a common challenge for many AI systems. Writing for VentureBeat, journalist Carl Franzen notes this capability allows for creating content like posters, …