Qwen 3.7 Preview Announced by Alibaba
Alibaba's Qwen team has announced a preview of Qwen 3.7, the next iteration in their Qwen 3 model series. The announcement appeared on Twitter/X and generated notable community discussion on Hacker News with 179 points and 67 comments. Specific capability details and model specifications are not available from this source alone.
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Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
Alibaba's Qwen team has announced Qwen3.7-Max, positioned as a frontier model for agentic tasks. The announcement appears on the official Qwen blog and generated significant community discussion on Hacker News with 559 points and 217 comments. The model name suggests it is part of the Qwen 3 generation, with a focus on agent capabilities.
Qwen releases Qwen3.5-2B multimodal model on Hugging Face
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.5-2B, a 2-billion-parameter image-text-to-text model, on Hugging Face. The model supports conversational use and is compatible with Azure deployment endpoints. With nearly 2 million downloads, it has seen substantial community uptake.
QwQ-Max-Preview Released by Qwen Team
Alibaba's Qwen team has released QwQ-Max-Preview, a preview version of their reasoning-focused model built on top of Qwen2.5-Max. The post is itself generated by the model, serving as a demonstration of its capabilities. As a preview release, it signals an upcoming full model launch in the Qwen series.
Qwen releases Qwen3.5-0.8B multimodal model on Hugging Face
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.5-0.8B, a small-scale image-text-to-text model, on Hugging Face. The model supports conversational use and is compatible with Azure deployment endpoints. With over 2.7 million downloads and 562 likes, it has seen substantial community uptake for a sub-1B parameter multimodal model.
Introducing the Qwen Series: Overview of Alibaba's Open-Source LLM Journey
Alibaba's Qwen team published a retrospective introduction to the Qwen series of large language models, four months after the initial Qwen-7B open-source release. The post consolidates links to their paper, GitHub, Hugging Face, and ModelScope repositories, and outlines the team's objectives for the open-source LLM program. It serves as a canonical reference point for the Qwen model family's public positioning.
Qwen2.5-Coder Released: Next-Generation Open-Source Coding Model
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen2.5-Coder, the next generation of their open-source coding-specialized language model, succeeding CodeQwen1.5 which launched in April 2024. The release also marks a rebranding from CodeQwen to Qwen-Coder. The model is available on GitHub, Hugging Face, and ModelScope.
Qwen2.5-VL: Alibaba's New Flagship Vision-Language Model Released in 3B/7B/72B Sizes
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen2.5-VL, their new flagship vision-language model, representing a significant upgrade over Qwen2-VL. The release includes both base and instruct variants in three sizes (3B, 7B, 72B), all open-weighted and available on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The 72B instruct model is also accessible via Qwen Chat. Key capabilities highlighted include enhanced visual understanding, with the model positioned as a major step forward in multimodal performance.
Qwen3 Release: Flagship 235B MoE and Full Model Family Announced
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3, a new family of large language models including the flagship Qwen3-235B-A22B mixture-of-experts model. The flagship model claims competitive benchmark performance against DeepSeek-R1, OpenAI o1/o3-mini, Grok-3, and Gemini-2.5-Pro on coding, math, and general capabilities. A smaller MoE variant, Qwen3-30B-A3B, reportedly outperforms QwQ-32B despite using only one-tenth the activated parameters, and the 4B model is said to match Qwen2.5's larger models. Models are available across Hugging Face, ModelScope, and Kaggle.