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Qwen is Alibaba’s open-weight family of large language models that has been reported as surpassing 3 billion downloads on the Hugging Face Hub, placing it among the most widely used open-model ecosystems. Recent coverage includes the release of Qwen3.8-Max (a 2.4T MoE multimodal model with a 1M-token context window) and a smaller 27B model, alongside mentions of Qwen being made easier to run in desktop tooling such as Claude Desktop via model integration through Ollama.

Updated 14 September 2026

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September 2026

WebLLM released as an in-browser LLM inference engine that runs locally in browsers using WebGPU Open source release

August 2026

Alibaba released the Qwen3.8-27B open AI model for laptop use and open-sourced the weights of Qwen3.8 Max Model release

Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal AI model with coding and autonomous agent capabilities Model release

July 2026

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight large language model Model release

Apple Intelligence receives regulatory approval to launch in China through partnerships with Alibaba and Baidu Feature update

June 2026

March 2026

February 2026

December 2025

Together AI Integrates PyTorch Reinforcement Learning Capabilities into AI Cloud Platform Partnership

March 2025

February 2025

August 2024

June 2024

January 2024

Alibaba Releases Qwen Series of Open-Source Large Language Models and Multimodal Variants Open source release

December 2023

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