Alibaba shut down Qwen Code's free tier today, following a license bait-and-switch from fellow Chinese company MiniMax.

What if coding wasn’t just a skill but a conversation—one where your tools truly understood your intent and worked alongside you? Enter the Qwen 3 Coder, a new model that’s reshaping how developers ...

What if the future of coding wasn’t just faster, but fundamentally smarter? With the debut of QWEN 3 Coder, Alibaba has ignited a seismic shift in the AI industry, challenging the dominance of ...

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Alibaba’s Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the Chinese tech giant unveiled its new Qwen 3.5 open-weight small models. Junyang Lin, a central ...

AI engineer Kyle Hessling merged two of Jackrong's Claude Opus 4.6 and GLM-5.1 distilled finetunes into a single ...

Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) launched an open-source AI model, Qwen3-Coder, for software development that the company described as its most advanced agentic AI coding model to date. Shares of Alibaba rose ...

Thanks to new subscription plans and Chinese open-weight models, developers can have high-quality code generation on the cheap. Here are your best options. Many developers haven’t yet crossed over to ...

A senior member of the Google DeepMind development team, Omar Sanseviero, publicly invited members of Qwen to join the company in a post on the social media platform X. “Qwen friends: if any of you ...

Alibaba's artificial intelligence (AI) model "Qwen" has been reported to dominate more than half of the global open-source AI ...