Multiple core members of Alibaba Qwen have resigned, and Zhipu CEO Tang Jie publicly called on the departing members to "join us"

According to 1M AI News monitoring and reports from LatePost, Alibaba’s Qwen team technical leader Lin Junyang officially resigned from Alibaba on the afternoon of March 3rd. On the early morning of March 4th, he posted on X, “me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen.” Qwen team member Kaixin Li announced his departure on the same day. Zhipu AI CEO Tang Jie responded on X, saying: “cool. start a new journey” to Lin Junyang and “join us, more focus” to Kaixin Li, publicly indicating recruitment intentions. Also leaving on the same day was Qwen’s post-training lead Yu Bowen, whose responsibilities were taken over by Zhou Hao, a former senior researcher at DeepMind who joined Tongyi Laboratory earlier this year; Qwen Code lead Hui Bin had already left in January to join Meta. According to LatePost, Lin Junyang’s departure is related to organizational adjustments within the Qwen team: Tongyi Laboratory plans to split Qwen from a vertically integrated system into horizontal teams focused on pre-training, post-training, text, and multimodal tasks. Lin Junyang’s management scope was reduced, and the split direction did not align with his technical view that the teams should be more closely integrated. Some Alibaba executives were not entirely satisfied with the release of Qwen-3.5 on New Year’s Eve, calling it a “semi-finished product.” Lin Junyang was born in 1993, graduated with a master’s degree from Peking University in 2019, and joined Alibaba DAMO Academy. By 2025, he will be Alibaba’s youngest P10.