June 24, 2026

Alibaba's model never trained as an agent — and improved agent performance across seven benchmarks

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Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-AgentWorld on Tuesday — two models trained not to act inside agent environments, but to predict what those environments return. The release covers seven domains under a single architecture: MCP, Search, Terminal...