Alibaba Qwen: what I’ve logged
Alibaba Qwen comes up in 14 posts of my AI log, from September 2025 to May 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The releases I logged include Qwen3.7-Max, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.6-Plus, filed under frontier, agents and coding and image, video, world.
Items that mention Alibaba Qwen
- Alibaba Qwen 18 May 2026
Qwen3.7-Max
Announced May 20 with claims of 35-hour agent runs and over 1,000 tool calls without degradation.
- Alibaba Qwen 27 Apr 2026
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
The first open-weight Qwen3.6 model, a 35B mixture-of-experts with only 3B parameters active, pitched at agentic coding.
- Alibaba Qwen 30 Mar 2026
Qwen3.6-Plus
A 1M-token context by default and a repository-level coding pitch, with Alibaba reporting 61.6 on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and 78.8 on SWE-bench Verified.
- Alibaba Qwen 2 Mar 2026
Qwen3.5 small series (0.8B to 9B)
Open small models, from 0.8B to 9B, meant for phones, laptops and edge devices.
- Alibaba Qwen 23 Feb 2026
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B and the medium series
Open mid-size Qwen3.5 models, including a 35B-A3B that targets laptop-class hardware.
- Alibaba Qwen 16 Feb 2026
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
Alibaba's new open flagship is natively multimodal and activates only 17B of its 397B parameters per token.
- Alibaba Qwen 2 Feb 2026
Qwen3-Coder-Next
An open coding model built for agents, light on active parameters so it can run on modest hardware.
- Alibaba Qwen 19 Jan 2026
Qwen3-TTS
Open text-to-speech with voice design and cloning, an open speech model with voice design and cloning.
- Alibaba Qwen 29 Dec 2025
Qwen-Image-2512
A refresh of Qwen's open image model with more realistic people and sharper text rendering, released on New Year's Eve.
- Alibaba Qwen 22 Dec 2025
Qwen-Image-Edit-2511
An update to the open image editor focused on keeping people and objects consistent from one edit to the next.
- Alibaba Qwen 15 Dec 2025
Qwen-Image-Layered
It splits one image into separate transparent layers, which makes real editing possible instead of re-rolling the whole picture.
- Alibaba Qwen 20 Oct 2025
Qwen3-VL 32B Instruct
Dense 32B and 8B vision-language models that are far easier to host than the 235B flagship.
- Alibaba Qwen 22 Sep 2025
Qwen3-Omni 30B-A3B Instruct
One open model takes text, images, audio and video in and talks back with speech.
- Alibaba Qwen 22 Sep 2025
Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct
The largest open Qwen vision-language model so far, aimed at documents, video and GUI agents.
- Alibaba Qwen 22 Sep 2025
Qwen-Image-Edit-2509
Better multi-image editing and more consistent faces and text in edited pictures.
- Alibaba Qwen 8 Sep 2025
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
80B total parameters with only about 3B active per token, using a hybrid attention design for cheap long context.
Posts that cover Alibaba Qwen
May 20261 entry
April 20261 entry
March 20262 entries
February 20263 entries
- Week of 23 Feb 2026Nano Banana 2, Qwen3.5 medium models and a diffusion LLMOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
- Week of 16 Feb 2026Qwen3.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro in one weekFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding
- Week of 2 Feb 2026Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex land on the same dayFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding
January 20261 entry
December 20253 entries
- Week of 29 Dec 2025DeepSeek's mHC paper, Qwen-Image-2512 and a Tencent translation modelOpen weights · Image, video, world · Science
- Week of 22 Dec 2025GLM-4.7 and MiniMax M2.1 open up, Nvidia licenses Groq's techOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
- Week of 15 Dec 2025Gemini 3 Flash, GPT-5.2-Codex and Nvidia's open Nemotron 3Frontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding