Qwen's Tech Lead Junyang Lin Steps Down From Alibaba
Junyang Lin, the 32-year-old architect behind Alibaba's Qwen open-source AI models, announces his departure in a brief tweet - the fourth major exit from Tongyi Lab in two years.
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Baidu Loses $11 Billion in Market Value as AI Revenue Grows But Advertising Collapses
Baidu's third consecutive quarter of revenue decline wiped $11 billion off its market cap, exposing the gap between its AI ambitions and the advertising business still funding them.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 Claims to Beat GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5 - and It's Open Source
Alibaba releases Qwen 3.5, a 397-billion-parameter open-weight model that claims to outperform US frontier models at a fraction of the cost.