Ali Asif

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Alibaba: what I’ve logged

Alibaba comes up in 5 posts of my AI log, from July 2026 to September 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The releases I logged include Qwen-Image-2.1, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and Qwen3.8-27B, filed under frontier, image, video, world and open weights.

Items that mention Alibaba

  1. Alibaba 14 Sep 2026

    Qwen-Image-2.1

    An open 7B image generation and editing model with native transparency and up to ten reference images for identity-preserving edits.

    Primary source

  2. Alibaba 24 Aug 2026

    Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

    An experimental open preview of the architecture planned for Qwen4, with 125B total and 6B active parameters.

    Primary source

  3. Alibaba 17 Aug 2026

    Qwen3.8-27B

    A dense 27B vision-language model under Apache 2.0, with a 1M-token hosted context and gains in coding and office tasks over Qwen3.6-27B.

    Primary source

  4. Alibaba 3 Aug 2026

    Qwen3.8-Max

    Alibaba's flagship is a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 95B active parameters and a 1M-token window, pitched at multi-day coding projects.

    Primary source

  5. Alibaba 3 Aug 2026

    Qwen-Image-3.0

    The standard tier of the new image series: faster and cheaper than the Pro model, with the same generation and editing interface.

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  6. Alibaba 20 Jul 2026

    Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro

    One hosted model ID for both text-to-image and editing, with up to three input images and outputs up to 2048 by 2048.

    Primary source

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