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
- 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.
- 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 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 Qwen
October 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
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