March 4, 2026

Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? Key figures depart in wake of latest open source release

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Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers have been among the most prolific and well-regarded by international machine learning community — shipping dozens of powerful generalized and specialized generative models starting last summer, most of them...