# 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

1. **Qwen-Image-2.1** (Alibaba, 14 Sept 2026): An open 7B image generation and editing model with native transparency and up to ten reference images for identity-preserving edits. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-09-14-week-in-ai#item-3)
2. **Qwen3.8-Flash-Next** (Alibaba, 24 Aug 2026): An experimental open preview of the architecture planned for Qwen4, with 125B total and 6B active parameters. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-24-week-in-ai#item-4)
3. **Qwen3.8-27B** (Alibaba, 17 Aug 2026): 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](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-17-week-in-ai#item-1)
4. **Qwen3.8-Max** (Alibaba, 3 Aug 2026): 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](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-03-week-in-ai#item-1)
5. **Qwen-Image-3.0** (Alibaba, 3 Aug 2026): The standard tier of the new image series: faster and cheaper than the Pro model, with the same generation and editing interface. [Primary source](https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen-image-3.0) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-03-week-in-ai#item-3)
6. **Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro** (Alibaba, 20 Jul 2026): 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](https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen-image-3.0-pro) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-07-20-week-in-ai#item-5)

## Posts

- 2026-09-14 [Gemini 3.8 Live, open Qwen-Image-2.1 and Anthropic's Accenture pact](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-09-14-week-in-ai)
- 2026-08-24 [Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video, Tencent's Hy4 and GLM-5.3-Flash open up](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-24-week-in-ai)
- 2026-08-17 [A quiet week: Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek adds vision, DeepMind on games](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-17-week-in-ai)
- 2026-08-03 [Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4T, Motif 3, and WeatherNext goes open](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-08-03-week-in-ai)
- 2026-07-20 [Claude Opus 5 arrives, Gemini 3.6 Flash and Solar Open 2 follow](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-07-20-week-in-ai)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com/ai/topics/alibaba