7 stories on Alibaba since Apr 29, 2026, newest first.
Alibaba plans to require large commercial users of its Qwen3.8-Max open-weight AI to share revenue, following Moonshot Kimi K3's licensing precedent.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters and a 1M-token context, completing a 16-day coding project solo. Open weights next week.
Alibaba launches Qwen-Robot, three embodied AI models for industrial robots built on Qwen3.5-4B, targeting China's surging 2026 factory automation market.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Plus adds vision and video to its Qwen backbone at $0.40 per million tokens, 6x cheaper than Qwen 3.7 Max, shipping June 1.
Qwen 3.7 Max scores 92.4 on GPQA Diamond with a 1M-token window and $2.50 input pricing, undercutting GPT-5.5 on cost while topping Claude on reasoning.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.6-Plus delivers a 1M-token context window, 3x Claude Opus 4.6 inference speed, and top SWE-bench Pro scores, now on Fireworks AI with production SLAs for enterprise inference.
Alibaba Qwen 3.5: 397B open-weight MoE, 201 languages, 1M-token context, Apache 2.0, outperforms larger models at fraction of inference cost