Alibaba

A Chinese technology conglomerate in e-commerce, payments and logistics whose cloud division, Alibaba Cloud, is China's largest cloud provider and the developer of the QwenQwen, prop. n.: A family of AI language models from the Chinese company Alibaba, many free to download, which by 2025 had become the most popular starting point for other people's open AI models. (Tongyi Qianwen) family of large language modelslarge language model, n.: A computer program trained on enormous amounts of text to predict the words that come next. At vast scale, that simple skill lets it chat, answer questions, translate, summarize and write code.. Since releasing the weights of Qwen-7B in August 2023 it has published many open-weight modelsopen-weight model, n.: An AI model whose trained internal numbers are published for anyone to download and run on their own computers, even if the data and code used to make it stay private., mostly under the Apache 2.0 license, ranging from under a billion to hundreds of billions of parameters and covering text, vision, audio and code, alongside proprietary flagships such as Qwen3-Max (2025). By 2025 Qwen had overtaken Llama as the most common base for derivative models on Hugging FaceHugging Face, prop. n.: A company whose website is the main public library for sharing AI models and datasets — often called the GitHub of machine learning — and which makes widely used free AI software., making Alibaba central to the global spread of Chinese open models. It also releases the Wan video-generation models and has invested in Chinese AI startups including Moonshot AIMoonshot AI, prop. n.: A Beijing artificial intelligence company, founded in 2023, that makes the Kimi chatbot and very large models that anyone can download..