Qwen
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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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Latest developments
Anthropic’s Watermarks, Grok 4.6 Surges, Qwen’s Open Weights, Better Corrections for Speech Recognition
The Batch ·
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Claude Desktop can now easily run Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi models — after Ollama’s first effort stalled
The New Stack · 3 weeks ago ·
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Alibaba AI models hit 3 billion downloads, passing Meta, Google
Fortune ·
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State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
Hugging Face · 1 month ago ·
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[AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork
Latent Space · 1 month ago ·
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Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date
MarkTechPost · 1 month ago ·
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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
- Running LLMs in the Browser with Three.js
- The Sequence Knowledge- Issue 924: The Distilled Models You Need to Know About
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
- Anthropic’s Watermarks, Grok 4.6 Surges, Qwen’s Open Weights, Better Corrections for Speech Recognition
- Claude Desktop can now easily run Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi models — after Ollama’s first effort stalled
- Alibaba AI models hit 3 billion downloads, passing Meta, Google
- State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
- [AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork
- Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date
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
- Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
- Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors
- America’s Open-Model Paradox
- America’s Open-Model Paradox
- Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
- Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next
- The U.S. wants to contain China’s AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it
- 7 Consequences of America Finally Losing Its AI Edge to China
- Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu
- Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI
- Apple in talks with startup that shrinks AI models to run on an iPhone
- Deploying quantized models on Amazon SageMaker AI with Unsloth
- Apple Exploring Ways to Run Much Larger AI Models Directly on iPhones
- Experiences with local models for coding
- jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
June 2026
March 2026
February 2026
- CoderForge-Preview: SOTA open dataset for training efficient coding agents
- What do LLMs think when you don't tell them what to think about?
December 2025
Together AI Integrates PyTorch Reinforcement Learning Capabilities into AI Cloud Platform Partnership
- How to run TorchForge reinforcement learning pipelines in the Together AI Native Cloud
- Together AI delivers fastest inference for the top open-source models
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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Products & technology
- Alibaba develops this model · 7 sources
- Apple integrated with this model · 2 sources
- Deploys OpenClaw · 1 source
- Integrated with Hugging Face · 1 source
- Uber Eats integrated with this model · 1 source
- PrismML derived from this model · 1 source
- Together AI deploys this model · 1 source
- PrismML integrated with this model · 1 source
- Claude Desktop deploys this model · 1 source