Lab release history
Last updated May 12, 2026
Alibaba (Qwen) model releases
Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud; prolific open-weight releases. This page collects the lab's model releases, lifecycle events, source links, and model metadata in one crawlable record.
15 models
Qwen3.6-27B
AvailableDense 27B that punches far above its weight on agentic coding — easy to self-host on a single GPU node.
Qwen3.5-397B
AvailableNative vision-language MoE supporting 201 languages with a 1M-token context.
Qwen3-Coder-Next
AvailableApache-licensed Qwen3-Next coding-agent model with 80B total / 3B active parameters, 256K context, and long-horizon tool-use training.
Qwen3-235B-A22B
AvailableLargest open Qwen3 MoE, introducing hybrid thinking/non-thinking modes and 119-language coverage.
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B
AvailableLocal omni-modal Qwen model that supports text, image, audio, video, and speech generation in a 7B package.
Qwen2.5-Max
AvailableProprietary MoE flagship for the Qwen2.5 generation, released through Qwen Chat and Alibaba Cloud APIs.
Qwen2.5-VL-72B
AvailableVision-language Qwen2.5 model for image, document, video, and agentic visual grounding tasks.
QwQ-32B-Preview
AvailableQwen's first public reasoning-preview model, aimed at math, coding, and deliberate problem solving.
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
AvailableCode-specialized Qwen2.5 model family, with the 32B checkpoint as the flagship open coding model.
Qwen2.5-72B
AvailableBroad Qwen2.5 foundation-model update spanning general, coding, math, and multimodal descendants.
Qwen2-72B
AvailableQwen2's largest dense model, introducing stronger multilingual support, coding/math gains, and long-context variants.
Qwen1.5-110B
AvailableLargest Qwen1.5 model, released as the bridge from the original Qwen line to Qwen2.
Qwen-72B
AvailableAlibaba's first major open Qwen model and the start of a prolific open-weight line.
Qwen-14B
AvailableSecond open Qwen size, expanding the first-generation Qwen language-model lineup.
Qwen-7B
AvailableAlibaba's first open Qwen checkpoint and the start of the Qwen open-model line.