// OVERVIEW
Qwen (通义千问 / Tongyi Qianwen) is a family of large language models developed by Alibaba Cloud, offering over 100 open-weight models across a range of sizes and architectures, with multimodal capabilities spanning text, image, video, and audio. It is one of the most widely adopted open-source LLM families globally, with over 40 million downloads and more than 200,000 derivative models on Hugging Face, making it a cornerstone of China's open-source AI ecosystem.
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// RECENT MENTIONS
// SIGNALS
13 SIGNALS
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mention·The a16z Show·OCTOBER 3, 2026
“Taken off the shelf, like Gwen or something like that, and like train it specifically for that policy.”
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mention·Sourcery Newsletter·OCTOBER 2, 2026
“Open weight models are roughly 3 to 6 months behind the frontier, led by Kimi K3, DeepSeek and Qwen.”
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