Alibaba Cloud Says Qwen 4 Models Are Coming Next Week
At Apsara in Amsterdam, Alibaba Cloud's technical director said the Qwen 4 model series will be released next week.
Qwen 4 models expected next week
At the Apsara conference in Amsterdam, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, technical director of Alibaba Cloud's cloud division, said that the Qwen 4 series of models will be released next week.
The statement points to an imminent next-generation update for Alibaba's Qwen model family.
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AnalysisQwen is a major open-weight LLM ecosystem, and a fast release cycle could intensify competition among frontier and open model providers.
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