# 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

1. **Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo** (Qwen, 12 Oct 2026): An 8-step checkpoint of the 7B Qwen-Image-2.1 for text-to-image and editing, loadable directly in Diffusers. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-13-muse-wonder-self-replication-radar#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. **Qwen3.6-35B-A3B** (Alibaba Qwen, 27 Apr 2026): The first open-weight Qwen3.6 model, a 35B mixture-of-experts with only 3B parameters active, pitched at agentic coding. [Primary source](https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-04-27-week-in-ai#item-3)
7. **Qwen3.6-Plus** (Alibaba Qwen, 30 Mar 2026): 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](https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-03-30-week-in-ai#item-2)
8. **Qwen3.5 small series (0.8B to 9B)** (Alibaba Qwen, 2 Mar 2026): Open small models, from 0.8B to 9B, meant for phones, laptops and edge devices. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-03-02-week-in-ai#item-3)
9. **Qwen3.5-122B-A10B and the medium series** (Alibaba Qwen, 23 Feb 2026): Open mid-size Qwen3.5 models, including a 35B-A3B that targets laptop-class hardware. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-02-23-week-in-ai#item-2)
10. **Qwen3.5-397B-A17B** (Alibaba Qwen, 16 Feb 2026): Alibaba's new open flagship is natively multimodal and activates only 17B of its 397B parameters per token. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-02-16-week-in-ai#item-3)
11. **Qwen3-Coder-Next** (Alibaba Qwen, 2 Feb 2026): An open coding model built for agents, light on active parameters so it can run on modest hardware. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-02-02-week-in-ai#item-3)
12. **Qwen3-TTS** (Alibaba Qwen, 19 Jan 2026): Open text-to-speech with voice design and cloning, an open speech model with voice design and cloning. [Primary source](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-TTS) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-01-19-week-in-ai#item-3)
13. **Qwen-Image-2512** (Alibaba Qwen, 29 Dec 2025): A refresh of Qwen's open image model with more realistic people and sharper text rendering, released on New Year's Eve. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2512) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-29-week-in-ai#item-1)
14. **Qwen-Image-Edit-2511** (Alibaba Qwen, 22 Dec 2025): An update to the open image editor focused on keeping people and objects consistent from one edit to the next. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-22-week-in-ai#item-3)
15. **Qwen-Image-Layered** (Alibaba Qwen, 15 Dec 2025): It splits one image into separate transparent layers, which makes real editing possible instead of re-rolling the whole picture. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-Layered) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-15-week-in-ai#item-5)
16. **Qwen3-VL 32B Instruct** (Alibaba Qwen, 20 Oct 2025): Dense 32B and 8B vision-language models that are far easier to host than the 235B flagship. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-10-20-week-in-ai#item-4)
17. **Qwen3-Omni 30B-A3B Instruct** (Alibaba Qwen, 22 Sept 2025): One open model takes text, images, audio and video in and talks back with speech. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-22-week-in-ai#item-1)
18. **Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct** (Alibaba Qwen, 22 Sept 2025): The largest open Qwen vision-language model so far, aimed at documents, video and GUI agents. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-22-week-in-ai#item-2)
19. **Qwen-Image-Edit-2509** (Alibaba Qwen, 22 Sept 2025): Better multi-image editing and more consistent faces and text in edited pictures. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2509) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-22-week-in-ai#item-5)
20. **Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct** (Alibaba Qwen, 8 Sept 2025): 80B total parameters with only about 3B active per token, using a hybrid attention design for cheap long context. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-08-week-in-ai#item-2)

## Posts

- 2026-10-13 [Muse Wonder ships without scores, Anthropic tests self-copying](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-13-muse-wonder-self-replication-radar)
- 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)
- 2026-04-27 [Grok 4.3, Mistral Medium 3.5 weights, and the Qwen3.6 family](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-04-27-week-in-ai)
- 2026-03-30 [Gemma 4 goes Apache 2.0, Qwen3.6-Plus, GLM-5V-Turbo](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-03-30-week-in-ai)
- 2026-03-02 [GPT-5.4 ships, Karpathy's autoresearch, and Qwen3.5 goes small](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-03-02-week-in-ai)
- 2026-02-23 [Nano Banana 2, Qwen3.5 medium models and a diffusion LLM](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-02-23-week-in-ai)
- 2026-02-16 [Qwen3.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro in one week](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-02-16-week-in-ai)
- 2026-02-02 [Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex land on the same day](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-02-02-week-in-ai)
- 2026-01-19 [GLM-4.7-Flash, Qwen3-TTS opens up, and Claude's new constitution](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-01-19-week-in-ai)
- 2025-12-29 [DeepSeek's mHC paper, Qwen-Image-2512 and a Tencent translation model](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-29-week-in-ai)
- 2025-12-22 [GLM-4.7 and MiniMax M2.1 open up, Nvidia licenses Groq's tech](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-22-week-in-ai)
- 2025-12-15 [Gemini 3 Flash, GPT-5.2-Codex and Nvidia's open Nemotron 3](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-12-15-week-in-ai)
- 2025-10-20 [Claude Code on the web, DeepSeek-OCR, Anthropic's TPU deal](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-10-20-week-in-ai)
- 2025-09-22 [Qwen3-Omni and VL arrive, Gemini Robotics 1.5 learns to think first](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-22-week-in-ai)
- 2025-09-08 [Claude makes files, Qwen3-Next goes sparse, ERNIE 4.5 Thinking](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-09-08-week-in-ai)

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