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Alibaba’s Qwen Shake-Up: Leadership Exodus Puts Open Source AI Future in Doubt

Cary Huang
March 4, 2026
News, Technology

Alibaba’s Qwen research group has been one of the most important open source AI teams in the world, delivering a rapid cadence of competitive foundation models with permissive licenses and massive adoption. Now, just as the team ships one of… Read More »Alibaba’s Qwen Shake-Up: Leadership Exodus Puts Open Source AI Future in Doubt

Inside Qwen3-Coder-Next: Alibaba’s Ultra-Sparse, Agentic Open-Source Coding Model

Cary Huang
February 6, 2026
News, Technology

Alibaba’s Qwen team has moved quickly from being a rising open-source AI contributor to a central player in the race to build high-performance coding assistants. Its latest release, Qwen3-Coder-Next, is not just another code-focused large language model (LLM) — it… Read More »Inside Qwen3-Coder-Next: Alibaba’s Ultra-Sparse, Agentic Open-Source Coding Model