Qwen

Qwen
Alibaba Cloud's family of large language and multimodal models powering AI applications globally.
About
What does Qwen do?
Qwen is Alibaba Cloud's family of large language models (LLMs) and multimodal models (LMMs) that are continuously released, including generalist models, expert models, and AGI-related projects. These models are designed to handle a wide range of natural language processing tasks, multimodal understanding, and advanced reasoning, serving businesses, developers, and researchers globally.
Where is Qwen headquartered?
Qwen is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.
When was Qwen founded?
Qwen was founded in 2023.
What industry does Qwen operate in?
Qwen operates in Frontier AI Lab, AGI Research, Foundation Model, Large Language Model, Multimodal AI, Generative AI.
“I ran Qwen 3.6 locally for 45 days, here are the results. I ran Qwen 3.6 locally for 45 days as an agentic coder. In the process I upgraded from a single 3070 Ti to a 5070 Ti + 4070 Super.”
View on Reddit“I've been using Qwen 3.6 27B for about a week now and I'm blown away! I'm a software dev for a small company, mostly working on building line of business apps, Vue front ends and .net back ends.”
View on Reddit“Qwen is never going to open source Qwen 3.7, aren't they?. Well, this was predictable. After Qwen fired Junyang Lin, the next models are no longer open source. Ignoring the small models for a minute, they’ve fully locked down all the big mo…”
View on Reddit“Hugging Face co-founder says Qwen 3.6 27B running on airplane mode is close to latest Opus in Claude Code. I've been using AI Desktop 98 heavily to run local llms like qwen on my iPhone.”
View on Reddit“2.5x faster inference with Qwen 3.6 27B using MTP - Finally a viable option for local agentic coding - 262k context on 48GB - Fixed chat template - Drop-in OpenAI and Anthropic API endpoints.”
View on Reddit“Goodbye, Qwen. You tried, but you failed..”
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