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Qwen (Alibaba)

Alibaba's model family — proprietary flagship plus widely-used open weights

Founded 2023Hangzhou, China🟡 Open + ClosedWebsite ↗

Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) is the large-model family from Alibaba Cloud. It spans an agent-focused proprietary flagship and a broad line of open-weight models across sizes and modalities, one of the most widely adopted open model ecosystems in China and abroad.

Models

  • Qwen3.7-MaxProprietary flagship agent / reasoning model, 1M-token context💬 Text🧮 Reasoning💻 Code
  • Qwen3.7-PlusMultimodal agent variant with vision input👁️ Multimodal
  • Qwen3 (open series)Open-weight models across many sizes💬 Text💻 Code
  • Qwen-Image / WanImage and video generation🖼️ Image🎬 Video

Highlights

  • Among the most downloaded open model families on global model hubs
  • Qwen3.7-Max (2026) ranks among the top Chinese models on public benchmarks

Information compiled from public sources; refer to the company's official website for authoritative details.