Qwen
ENT-00000034 · AI System

Qwen

Qwen is Alibaba Cloud’s large model and assistant family, covering multilingual language models, visual-language models, reasoning models and code-oriented systems.

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Overview

Qwen is Alibaba Cloud’s large model and assistant family, covering multilingual language models, visual-language models, reasoning models and code-oriented systems. It connects public chat interfaces with open and commercial model deployments in the Alibaba AI ecosystem.

Timeline

  1. 2023-08Qwen open-source models published

    Alibaba published early Qwen open-source models including Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-Chat.

  2. 2024-09-19Qwen 2.5 multimodal model releases

    Alibaba Cloud announced Qwen 2.5 multimodal model releases and AI infrastructure updates.

  3. 2025-11-17Qwen App launched

    Alibaba unveiled Qwen App as a consumer-facing AI application powered by Qwen models.

Capabilities

Text generationGeneral-purpose language modelingMultimodal understanding in Qwen-VL and related modelsCoding and math model variantsOpen-source model availability where licensedCommercial model deployment through Alibaba CloudChat interface access where available

Known limitations

Model names, regional availability and licensing differ by deployment mode.Open-source and commercial terms vary by model release.Capabilities depend on selected Qwen model and platform environment.
Technical and structured detail

Technical description

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Controlled tags

AI SystemLarge Language ModelQwenAlibaba CloudOpen ModelsMultimodal AIIntelligent Entity
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Qwen

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Qwen
Creator or OriginOutgoing
Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud develops and distributes Qwen models and services.

Platform EnvironmentOutgoing
Model Studio

Qwen models are available through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.

Adjacent EntityIncoming
DeepSeek

Qwen is an adjacent Chinese model family and public AI system.

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