Alibaba

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

partner:

China Eastern Airlines

capability:

end-to-end flight management via chat

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

model size:

27B parameters

file size:

55.6GB (16.8GB quantized)

context window:

65536 tokens

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

model:

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

architecture:

sparse Mixture-of-Experts

benchmark:

SWE-bench Verified: 73.4%

Amap division launched three embodied AI models (ABot-World, ABot-M0, ABot-N0) claiming top benchmarks.

Published research paper on AI moving beyond text to multi-modal capabilities.

Published VulnSage, a multi-agent LLM framework that generated 146 zero-day exploits.

vulnerabilities found:

146

performance gain:

34.64% more successful exploits

Launch of Qwen 3.6-Plus AI model

Alibaba launches Qwen3.6-Plus with 1M-token context

Launched Qwen 3.5 Omni model with advanced voice AI and strategic messaging targeting the Western market.

Released Qwen3.5-Omni multimodal model with script-level captioning and audio-visual vibe coding

Proposed and deployed the KARMA framework for personalized search on Taobao

metric improvement:

increased item clicks by +0.5%

Aggressively releasing open-source AI models (Qwen) as part of China's ecosystem development strategy.

product:

Qwen models

license:

Open-source

Launched the XuanTie C950 CPU, a high-performance RISC-V processor with native LLM support

Achieved record SPECint2006 score (>70) for RISC-V architecture with XuanTie C950

Announced at ModelScope DevCon that more open-source Qwen models will be released

Researchers propose AIGQ, an end-to-end generative framework for pre-search query recommendations

application:

Taobao HintQ system

Announced five-year goal to generate over $100B from AI and cloud divisions, pivoting to agentic AI strategy

amount:

$100B

timeframe:

5 years