Timeline
Announced Qwen3.8, a 2.4 trillion parameter open-weight model
Introduced MIPI, a new RL objective for LLM post-training via MIPU framework
Qwen-RobotNav model released by Alibaba's Qwen Team
Alibaba blocked Claude Code after tracking experiment
Alibaba open-sourced Qwen-AgentWorld and Wan-Streamer v0.1 on Hugging Face.
Allegedly used 25,000 accounts to mine Claude over 28.8 million exchanges
Launched unified coding subscription plan offering four AI models for $3
Qwen family captured over 50% of global open-source AI model downloads, reaching nearly 1 billion cumulative downloads on Hugging Face.
Released Qwen 3.5 flagship model series, positioned as on par with leading US proprietary models.
Released Qwen 2.5, marking the beginning of a decisive shift away from popular US models like Llama.