Alibaba plans to spin off T-Head chip design unit

T-Head tripled registered capital to 1 billion yuan ($148M), first injection since early 2023

Launched Qwen Robot Suite, its first embodied AI models for robots.

Alibaba and Nanjing University published paper claiming 9.36X speedup for million-token prefill

Launched first external partnership for Qwen AI app with China Eastern Airlines for flight booking integration

Released Qwen3.6-27B, a dense 27B parameter model that surpasses its previous 397B MoE model on coding benchmarks.

Researchers developed DCW (Diffusion Correction in Wavelet domain), a method to fix SNR-t misalignment bias in diffusion models, improving performance for models like FLUX and EDM.

T-Head raised capital from 10 million yuan to 300 million yuan