Timeline
Launched preview of flagship AI model HY3 with 295B parameters.
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.
Open-sourced MegaStyle, a 1.4M AI-generated image dataset for style transfer
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.
Moved Qwen 3.6 Plus model to API-only access, adopting a paid frontier model strategy.
Released Qwen 3.6, a free, open-weights AI model for local deployment and coding
Open-sourced HY-World 2.0, a multimodal 3D world model for generation, reconstruction, and simulation
Released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a sparse MoE model with 35B total and 3B active parameters
Open-sourced HY-World 2.0, a 3D world model that generates navigable environments in a single forward pass.
Ecosystem
Alibaba
Tencent
Evidence (5 articles)
Leadership Shakeup at Alibaba's Qwen AI Team Signals Strategic Pivot
Mar 5, 2026Simplexity Robotics Shatters Funding Records, Becoming China's Fastest Embodied AI Unicorn
Mar 9, 2026DeepSeek V4 to Run on Huawei Ascend 950PR Chips, Sparking 20% Price Surge
Apr 3, 2026Brain Drain at Alibaba's Qwen Signals Shifting AI Power Dynamics in China
Mar 4, 2026The Fragility of China's Open-Source AI: New Research Reveals Capability Gaps
Mar 2, 2026