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Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? Key figures depart in wake of latest open source release
Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers have been among the most prolific and well-regarded by international machine learning community — shipping dozens of powerful generalized and specialized...
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According to VentureBeat: Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers have been among the most prolific and well-regarded by international machine learning community — shipping dozens of powerful generalized and specialized generative models starting last summer , most of them entirely open source and free. But now, just 24 hours after shipping the open source Qwen3.5 small model series —a release that drew public praise from Elon Musk for its "impressive intelligence density" —the project’s technical architect and several oth
Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? Key figures depart in wake of latest open source release
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Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers have been among the most prolific and well-regarded by international machine learning community — shipping dozens of powerful generalized and specialized...
2-Minute Brief
According to VentureBeat: Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers have been among the most prolific and well-regarded by international machine learning community — shipping dozens of powerful generalized and specialized generative models starting last summer , most of them entirely open source and free. But now, just 24 hours after shipping the open source Qwen3.5 small model series —a release that drew public praise from Elon Musk for its "impressive intelligence density" —the project’s technical architect and several oth