Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

4 hours ago

Junyang Lin, the lead researcher of Qwen, announced his resignation, sparking concerns about the future of the Qwen team.
Several other key members of the Qwen team also resigned, including core leaders responsible for various sub-areas of Qwen models.
The resignations followed a reorganization at Alibaba, where a new researcher from Google's Gemini team was put in charge of Qwen.
Alibaba's CEO held an emergency meeting, indicating the company recognizes the significance of these departures.
Qwen 3.5 models are highly praised for their performance, especially the smaller models that deliver high-quality results.
The Qwen team has a proven track record of achieving impressive results with increasingly smaller models.

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