Platform Profile
Alibaba Qwen
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team—frontier multimodal models, open-weight releases, and developer surfaces (Token Plan, Qoder) competing with U.S. closed flagships.
Role
Frontier models
Stack
Qwen multimodal MoE, Token Plan, Qoder agents
Status
Active
Alibaba’s Qwen organization trains large multimodal models for coding, agentic work, and open-weight distribution, with commercial access through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio / Token Plan and first-party coding products such as Qoder.
Related Coverage
- Alibaba Opens Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B Preview of the Qwen4 Architecture
On August 26, 2026, Alibaba’s Qwen team open-sourced Qwen3.8-Flash-Next—a 125B multimodal MoE with 6B active parameters, 262K native context, and vendor scores that preview the Qwen4 architecture—at $0.16/$0.47 per million tokens on the production Flash API.
- Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-27B Open Weights Under Apache 2.0
On August 14, 2026, Alibaba’s Qwen team posted Qwen3.8-27B on Hugging Face—a 27-billion-parameter native vision-language dense model with 262K context (extensible to 1M), thinking mode by default, and Apache 2.0 weights—the local companion to July’s 2.4T Qwen3.8-Max preview.
- Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4T Model It Says Is Second Only to Fable 5
On July 19, 2026, Alibaba’s Qwen team launched Qwen3.8-Max-Preview—a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal flagship live on Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork—claiming frontier-class capability second only to Claude Fable 5, with open weights promised soon but no public benchmark table yet.