Ali Asif

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Qwen: what I’ve logged

Qwen comes up in 17 posts of my AI log, from September 2025 to October 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The releases I logged include Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, filed under frontier, open weights and image, video, world.

Items that mention Qwen

  1. Qwen 12 Oct 2026

    Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo

    An 8-step checkpoint of the 7B Qwen-Image-2.1 for text-to-image and editing, loadable directly in Diffusers.

    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.

    Primary source

  6. 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.

    Primary source

  7. 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.

    Primary source

  8. 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.

    Primary source

  9. 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.

    Primary source

  10. 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.

    Primary source

  11. 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.

    Primary source

  12. 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.

    Primary source

  13. 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.

    Primary source

  14. 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.

    Primary source

  15. 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.

    Primary source

  16. 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.

    Primary source

  17. 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.

    Primary source

  18. 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.

    Primary source

  19. Alibaba Qwen 22 Sep 2025

    Qwen-Image-Edit-2509

    Better multi-image editing and more consistent faces and text in edited pictures.

    Primary source

  20. 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.

    Primary source

Posts that cover Qwen

October 20261 entry

  1. 13 Oct 2026Muse Wonder ships without scores, Anthropic tests self-copyingFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding · Science · Robotics

August 20263 entries

  1. 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
  2. Week of 17 Aug 2026A quiet week: Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek adds vision, DeepMind on gamesOpen weights · Agents and coding · Robotics · Image, video, world
  3. Week of 3 Aug 2026Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4T, Motif 3, and WeatherNext goes openFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science

April 20261 entry

  1. Week of 27 Apr 2026Grok 4.3, Mistral Medium 3.5 weights, and the Qwen3.6 familyFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding

March 20262 entries

  1. Week of 30 Mar 2026Gemma 4 goes Apache 2.0, Qwen3.6-Plus, GLM-5V-TurboOpen weights · Frontier · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 2 Mar 2026GPT-5.4 ships, Karpathy's autoresearch, and Qwen3.5 goes smallFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding

February 20263 entries

  1. Week of 23 Feb 2026Nano Banana 2, Qwen3.5 medium models and a diffusion LLMOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  2. Week of 16 Feb 2026Qwen3.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro in one weekFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding
  3. 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

  1. Week of 19 Jan 2026GLM-4.7-Flash, Qwen3-TTS opens up, and Claude's new constitutionOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business

December 20253 entries

  1. Week of 29 Dec 2025DeepSeek's mHC paper, Qwen-Image-2512 and a Tencent translation modelOpen weights · Image, video, world · Science
  2. 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
  3. 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

October 20251 entry

  1. Week of 20 Oct 2025Claude Code on the web, DeepSeek-OCR, Anthropic's TPU dealAgents and coding · Open weights · Policy and business

September 20252 entries

  1. Week of 22 Sep 2025Qwen3-Omni and VL arrive, Gemini Robotics 1.5 learns to think firstOpen weights · Image, video, world · Robotics · Science · Policy and business
  2. Week of 8 Sep 2025Claude makes files, Qwen3-Next goes sparse, ERNIE 4.5 ThinkingAgents and coding · Open weights