The Story of Qwen: Alibaba’s AI Models From 7B to 2.4T

תקציר מקורי באנגליתIn April 2023, Alibaba Cloud demoed a chatbot whose name roughly means ‘truth from a thousand questions.’ Three and a half years later, its descendant ships open weights with 2.4 trillion parameters. This is the story of how Qwen got there, release by release. window.addEventListener('message',function(e){if(e.data&&e.data.mtpQwenTl&&e.data.h){var f=document.getElementById('mtp-qwen-tl-frame');if(f&&e.source===f.contentWindow){f.style.height=e.data.h+'px';}}}); Chapter 1 — 2023: a thousand questions Alibaba moved after ChatGPT, but not by much. On April 7, 2023, Alibaba Cloud began handing invitation codes to corporate customers for a model called Tongyi Qianwen. The name draws partly on the philosopher Mencius. Four days later, at the Alibaba Cloud Summit in Beijing, then-CEO