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 …
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2512. This update improves their foundation model for generating images from text. The model is now available for public use and enterprise integration. According to the developers, this version focuses on three main areas: human realism, natural detail, and text rendering. The model aims to reduce the artificial appearance often …
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 startup Thinking Machines Lab has launched its first product, a tool called Tinker designed to simplify the creation of specialized AI models. Will Knight reports for Wired that the company was founded by a prominent group of former OpenAI researchers, including CEO Mira Murati. Tinker automates the process of fine-tuning powerful open source AI …
The QwenTeam has released a new series of open-source vision-language models called Qwen3-VL. According to the team’s official announcement, the models are designed not just to see images and videos but to understand context, reason about events, and perform actions. The flagship model, Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B, is available in two versions. The developers claim the “Instruct” version …
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 …
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, …