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Alibaba
A Chinese tech company whose Tongyi Lab builds the freely downloadable Qwen model family.
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Alibaba is a Chinese multinational technology company known for e-commerce, digital payments, and cloud computing through Alibaba Cloud. Its AI research, conducted in Tongyi Lab, produces the Qwen family of open-weight (freely downloadable) language and multimodal models that handle text plus images or other media. They come in a range of sizes and support both step-by-step reasoning and standard modes. Alibaba Cloud provides hosting and runs the models for the broader AI ecosystem.