Chinese technology conglomerate whose Qwen team developed the Qwen3-VL vision-language model.
“are engaging in aggressive, malicious, and targeted distillation activities at an industrial scale.”
Source→“Alibaba (Qwen): Creators of Qwen-RobotManip and Qwen3.5. Referenced for their cross-source alignment approach and as a backbone comparison.”
Source→“Meta and Alibaba (Qwen) — Cited as producers of open-weight models 'approaching frontier quality while staying small enough to run locally,' relevant to Ng's privacy/local-model practice.”
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