Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)
Canonical page on the main site: sinoaihub.com/companies/alibaba-cloud
Type
company
Definition
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) is a Chinese AI company (also Qwen, 千问) developing 3 foundation models and operating the Model Studio API.
Key facts
- Funding: No separate funding rounds; Alibaba Cloud is a business of Alibaba Group Holding, a public company (NYSE: BABA; HKEX: 9988).
- Foundation models: Qwen3.8-Max, Qwen3.8-Flash, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
- Agents: Qwen Code, Qwen-Agent, Qoder
- API: Model Studio API
- Open-source: 5 projects
Aliases
- Qwen
- 千问
- 阿里云
- Qwen Team
Funding
No separate funding rounds; Alibaba Cloud is a business of Alibaba Group Holding, a public company (NYSE: BABA; HKEX: 9988).
Ai Products
- Qwen Chat / Qwen Studio
- Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Bailian)
- Qwen Cloud
- Qoder (agentic coding)
- QwenWork
- Qwen Code
Foundation Models
Open Models
Agents
API
Major Releases
| name | date | type |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (first Qwen-Max-class open release) | 2026-08-12 | model_release |
| Qwen3.8-27B | 2026-08-14 | model_release |
| qwen3.8-max-0902 snapshot | 2026-09-02 | model_release |
Timeline
| date | event | type | source | verification_date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-12 | Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B release (first Qwen-Max-class open release) | model_release | https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.8 | 2026-09-20 |
| 2026-08-14 | Qwen3.8-27B release | model_release | https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.8 | 2026-09-20 |
| 2026-09-02 | qwen3.8-max-0902 snapshot (coding, multi-tool orchestration, vision) | model_release | https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen3.8-max-0902 | 2026-09-20 |
Open Source Projects
- Qwen3.8 (2.4T-A95B, 27B)
- Qwen3.6 (35B-A3B, 27B)
- Qwen3.5 (397B-A17B, 122B-A10B, 35B-A3B, 27B, 9B, 4B, 2B, 0.8B)
- Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B
- Qwen Code
Official Documentation
https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/
Official Website
https://qwen.ai/
Verification Status
verified
Last Verified
2026-09-20
Sources
| evidence_id | source_name | source_url | source_type | published | verified | confidence | conflict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| src-companies-alibaba-cloud-1 | Alibaba Cloud Model Studio — text generation model list | https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/text-generation-model | Official documentation | — | 2026-09-20 | high | — |
| src-companies-alibaba-cloud-2 | Qwen3.8 open-model repository README | https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.8 | Official documentation | — | 2026-09-20 | high | — |
| src-companies-alibaba-cloud-3 | Hugging Face model card — Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B | https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B | Model card | — | 2026-09-20 | high | — |