Timeline
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.
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
Released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a sparse MoE model with 35B total and 3B active parameters
Published paper on RLVR method that improves open-ended reasoning in 14B models by 3.29 points across seven benchmarks.
Released Qianfan-OCR document intelligence model on Hugging Face
Ecosystem
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Evidence (8 articles)
The No-Code Revolution: How One Team Built Software for 5 Months Without Writing a Single Line
Feb 15, 2026Geopolitical Whiplash: US Military's AI Blacklist Vanishes After Targeting Chinese Tech Giants
Feb 13, 2026Leadership Shakeup at Alibaba's Qwen AI Team Signals Strategic Pivot
Mar 5, 2026Grok 4.20 Arrives: xAI's Next-Gen AI Model Promises Major Leap in Capabilities
Feb 15, 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, 2026OpenAI's Mysterious Announcement: What's Coming Next in the AI Revolution?
Feb 15, 2026Pentagon-Anthropic Standoff: When AI Ethics Clash With National Security
Feb 15, 2026