qwen-code-94efcefa·2 events·first seen Aliases: Qwen Code
QwenLM has released Qwen Code, an open-source AI coding agent designed to operate within the terminal, implemented in TypeScript. The project has accumulated over 26,000 GitHub stars, indicating significant community traction. It represents Alibaba's Qwen team entering the agentic coding tool space alongside tools like Claude Code and Gemini CLI.
Alibaba released Qwen3.7-Max, a closed-weights proprietary model targeting long-running agentic tasks like coding and scientific discovery, with a 1M-token context window and 208 tokens/second output speed. The model ranks fifth to seventh on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, trailing leading U.S. models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google but claiming the lowest hallucination rate among frontier models tested—partly by declining to answer over half of prompts. Alibaba's training approach separates task, agentic harness, and verifier components to prevent overfitting to specific setups. The release continues Alibaba's strategic shift from open to closed weights for top-tier models, with leadership changes in the Qwen team suggesting a revenue-focused pivot.