Qwen AI: Alibaba's Generative AI Ecosystem

Qwen AI is Alibaba Cloud's next-gen open-source and proprietary ecosystem of large language & multimodal models. From the flagship Qwen 3 family to the brand-new Qwen3-Coder-Next coding agent, it delivers state-of-the-art reasoning, 256K-to-1M-token context and real-time text-image-audio-video interaction — under the permissive Apache 2.0 licence or fully managed in the cloud.

NEW Qwen 3

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Flagship Models — Latest & Most Powerful

Qwen 3 Family FLAGSHIP

Qwen3-Coder-Next (80B) NEW

QwQ Max (Reasoning)

Try Qwen AI Chat

Specialized & Multimodal Models

Qwen 2.5-VL (Vision)

Voice & Video AI (Omni)

AI Image Generation

AI Video Solutions

Qwen Audio

Developer Resources & Guides

Run Qwen Locally

Prompt Engineering Hub

Qwen for Web Dev

Qwen for Deep Research

Qwen on Hugging Face

Previous Generation — Qwen 2.5

The Qwen 2.5 series (Sept 2024) remains widely deployed. Qwen 3 is the latest and most capable family.

Qwen 2.5 Family Hub

Qwen 2.5 Max

Qwen 2.5 Coder

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What Is Qwen AI?

Qwen (pronounced "chwen", from the Chinese 通义千问 / Tōngyì Qiānwèn) is a family of large language models and multimodal AI systems developed by Alibaba Cloud. Since its initial release in 2023, the project has grown into one of the largest open-source AI ecosystems in the world — with more than 100 open-weight models published on Hugging Face and over 40 million downloads to date.

The ecosystem spans multiple model families. Qwen 3 (April 2025) is the current flagship generation, featuring both dense models (0.6B to 32B parameters) and sparse Mixture-of-Experts models up to 235B parameters with 22B active — supporting 119 languages and a hybrid "thinking mode" that toggles between fast inference and deep chain-of-thought reasoning. Qwen3-Coder-Next (February 2026) is the newest addition: an 80B MoE coding agent with only 3B active parameters, 256K context, and autonomous debugging capabilities that rival frontier proprietary models.

Beyond text, Qwen offers specialized models for vision (Qwen-VL), audio (Qwen-Audio, ASR, TTS), image generation, video generation, and the all-in-one Qwen 2.5-Omni that processes text, images, audio and video simultaneously with real-time speech output. For reasoning-heavy tasks, QwQ delivers specialized mathematical and analytical performance.

Most Qwen models are released under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing free commercial use, modification and redistribution. You can run them locally with tools like Ollama, llama.cpp, or LM Studio, deploy them via Alibaba Cloud's DashScope API, or use them through third-party providers. The project is backed by Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure, which serves 290,000+ enterprise customers including AstraZeneca, NIO, and Dingdong.

Key Innovations Driving Qwen AI

Hybrid Reasoning Engine & Switchable Thinking Mode (Qwen 3)

The Hybrid Reasoning Engine in Qwen 3 lets you toggle between lightning-fast responses and step-by-step chain-of-thought reasoning. Control depth, latency and cost with a single flag — perfect for both realtime chat and heavy STEM problem-solving. All Qwen 3 models support this natively, from the 0.6B edge model to the 235B flagship.

Autonomous Coding Agents (Qwen3-Coder-Next)

Qwen3-Coder-Next shifts from code assistance to code agency. Trained across 800,000+ verifiable tasks, it autonomously writes, executes, debugs and fixes code — achieving 70.5% on SWE-Bench with only 3B active parameters. Run it locally on a 64 GB system at 60+ tokens per second.

End-to-End Multimodality via Thinker-Talker (Qwen 2.5-Omni)

Powered by the novel Thinker-Talker stack, Qwen 2.5-Omni ingests text, images, audio and video — and streams back rich text or natural speech. Build voice or vision apps without juggling separate models.

Extreme Scale & 1M-Token Context (MoE Architecture)

Qwen's sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture delivers frontier-class quality while keeping inference lean. Context windows stretch to 256K–1M tokens natively, trained on an unrivalled 36 trillion-token corpus spanning 119 languages.

Qwen AI: Powering Industries Worldwide

Trusted by 290,000+ customers, Qwen drives measurable ROI across e-commerce, finance, healthcare, automotive and more. Dingdong's AI concierge, NIO's smart cockpit and Microcraft's medical assistant all run on Qwen's unified LLM stack.

AstraZeneca: 3x Faster Safety Reporting

By automating adverse-event analysis with Qwen, AstraZeneca slashed document turnaround times by 300% while sustaining 95% accuracy — freeing medical teams for higher-value work.

"Qwen turbo-charged our pharmacovigilance workflow — an industry first." — Xin Zhong, IT Head, AstraZeneca China

Ready to Build with Qwen AI?

Leverage open-source licenses or fully managed APIs to launch production-grade AI apps in days. Explore our detailed model guides, run locally with Ollama or llama.cpp, or deploy on Alibaba Cloud's GPU backbone.

Guides and benchmarks updated February 2026 — stay ahead with Qwen AI.