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Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)
Also known as: Qwen, 千问, 阿里云, Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) is a Chinese AI company, known for the qwen3.8-max, qwen3.8-flash models.
| Key fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Founded | Unknown |
| Headquarters | Unknown |
| Funding | No separate funding rounds; Alibaba Cloud is a business of Alibaba Group Holding, a public company (NYSE: BABA; HKEX: 9988). |
| Official website | https://qwen.ai/ |
| Documentation | https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/ |
| AI products | Qwen Chat / Qwen Studio, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Bailian), Qwen Cloud, Qoder (agentic coding), QwenWork, Qwen Code |
Major releases
| Release | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (first Qwen-Max-class open release) | 2026-08-12 | model_release |
| Qwen3.8-27B | 2026-08-14 | model_release |
| qwen3.8-max-0902 snapshot | 2026-09-02 | model_release |
Open-source projects
- Qwen3.8 (2.4T-A95B, 27B)
- Qwen3.6 (35B-A3B, 27B)
- Qwen3.5 (397B-A17B, 122B-A10B, 35B-A3B, 27B, 9B, 4B, 2B, 0.8B)
- Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B
- Qwen Code
Qwen is the large language model family built by the Qwen team at Alibaba Group / Alibaba Cloud. The official portal is qwen.ai; models are served through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Bailian) in six regions (Beijing, Singapore, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, US Virginia, Tokyo), with open-weight releases on GitHub (QwenLM), Hugging Face (Qwen) and ModelScope.
The current flagship is Qwen3.8-Max (2.4T-parameter MoE, 1M-token context, multimodal input), whose open-weight base Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B was released 2026-08-12. The Chinese name 千问 appears in official docs; the older “Tongyi Qianwen / 通义千问” branding was not confirmed on the fetched English pages.
Models
Sources
Data interpretation
| Field | Value | Evidence type |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation models | qwen3.8-max, qwen3.8-flash | Official |
| Major releases | 3 entries | Official |
| Entity relations | 2 models, 0 agents, 0 APIs | China AI Hub analysis |
Evidence types: Official = vendor documentation or official pages. China AI Hub analysis = derived from the database itself. See the sourcing policy.
Which foundation models does Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) offer?
qwen3.8-max, qwen3.8-flash.
Does Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) provide an API?
No API is currently listed for Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) in our database.
What open-source projects does Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) maintain?
Qwen3.8 (2.4T-A95B, 27B), Qwen3.6 (35B-A3B, 27B), Qwen3.5 (397B-A17B, 122B-A10B, 35B-A3B, 27B, 9B, 4B, 2B, 0.8B), Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B, Qwen Code.
Where does China AI Hub get its Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) data?
From 3 sources, last verified 2026-09-20.