Alibaba opens Qwen AI Services to external partners; China Eastern Airlines becomes first outside Alibaba to deploy an end-to-end AI flight booking service, enabling users to request options like affordable direct flights or spacious seats.

Gate News message, April 22 — 0G Labs has announced a partnership with Alibaba Cloud to enable AI agents to directly invoke Alibaba's Qwen large language model on-chain through 0G's blockchain infrastructure. The collaboration marks a shift in AI access paradigms from API-based approaches to

Gate News message, April 21 — The 0G Foundation has partnered with Alibaba Cloud to integrate the Qwen large language model series on-chain. Through a tokenized mechanism, developers can embed direct Qwen access into their

Alibaba's Qwen Lab has released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open-source large language model with a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture, featuring 35 billion parameters and agentic programming capabilities for integration with third-party coding assistants.

Qwen AI Glasses S1 are now available for sale, featuring multimodal interaction with voice and visual capabilities, starting at 3,499 yuan ($480) after discounts and subsidies.

As of March 2026, Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen series models account for more than 50% of global open-source model downloads, with a cumulative total of 942.1 million times. Their smaller-parameter versions are widely favored by developers. With the release of Qwen 2.5 and 3.5, Chinese models have gradually begun to surpass their U.S. counterparts, and the open-source strategy has become a key factor in the AI competition between China and the U.S.

Gate News message, April 3, the newly released ranking of CodeArena, an AI programming-focused competition under the globally renowned model blind test leaderboard LMArena, was published. Alibaba’s latest generation large language model, Qwen 3.6-Plus, ranked second on the global leaderboard, surpassing international giants such as OpenAI, Google, and xAI, becoming the highest-ranked Chinese model on that leaderboard.

Gate News, April 2, Alibaba released the Qwen3.6-Plus next-generation large language model Qwen3.6-Plus. The model has native multimodal understanding and reasoning capabilities, and can autonomously break down tasks, plan paths, test changes, and complete tasks in scenarios such as front-end web development and warehouse-level complex tasks. Currently, Qwen3.6-Plus has been listed on Alibaba Cloud’s Bailian platform, priced at the equivalent of 2 yuan minimum per million Tokens (tokens) for input; Qwen 3.6 has also launched on Wu Kong, the Qwen App, and other AI applications and platforms.

Animoca Brands launched the AliBAE platform based on Alibaba’s Qwen model on March 31. The platform supports creators in producing AI-assisted content and earning CHECK tokens. The platform is now open for early access, and it offers 100,000 CHECK rewards through promotions. Creators can participate in tasks to produce videos or applications and receive rewards.

Alibaba Qwen3.5-Omni, a fully multimodal large model, was released on March 30. It includes Instruct versions in three different sizes, supports long context, and supports multiple audio and video inputs. The model is pretrained on massive amounts of data, significantly improving multilingual capabilities, and supports 113 speech recognition languages and 36 speech generation modes.