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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Posts that cover Alibaba
September 20261 entry
August 20263 entries
- Week of 24 Aug 2026Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video, Tencent's Hy4 and GLM-5.3-Flash open upImage, video, world · Open weights · Agents and coding · Policy and business
- Week of 17 Aug 2026A quiet week: Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek adds vision, DeepMind on gamesOpen weights · Agents and coding · Robotics · Image, video, world
- Week of 3 Aug 2026Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4T, Motif 3, and WeatherNext goes openFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science