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Qwen
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QwenLM / Qwen

Qwen

The official repo of Qwen (通义千问) chat & pretrained large language model proposed by Alibaba Cloud.

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The official repo of Qwen (通义千问) chat & pretrained large language model proposed by Alibaba Cloud.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2023-09-27 21:33:04 UTC to 2026-06-13 05:10:31 UTC.

0122023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Qwen is still controlled by Alibaba, one company. We can't let the future be in the hands of a few companies, can we? Fun fact: Qwen was not initially a Apache Licensed project, it was based on a custom license from Alibaba that restricts commercial use: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen/blob/ba2d85a13b28ed1ee0dde2d6.... There's no guarantee that they won't just switch it back later. Kudos for them for switching to Apache License, of course. BUT, they're still a for-profit company. So as DeepSeek btw.
In Open source AI must win
Glad to see more models made available. Sadly it has the same kind of licensing problems as Facebook's LLaMa [1]: * "If you are commercially using the Materials, and your product or service has more than 100 million monthly active users, You shall request a license from Us." * "You can not use the Materials or any output therefrom to improve any other large language model (excluding Tongyi Qianwen or derivative works thereof)." [1]: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen/blob/main/LICENSE So, thanks Facebook for setting a truly awful precedence that other corporate lawyers will now copy. We may not be entitled to your work, but your awful behaviour seem to cause Alibaba as well to claim that their model is open rather than what it really is: available. I need to come up with a t-shirt design mocking the appropriation going on (well, outright viol
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ation when Facebook says that LLaMa is compatible with open science) so that I can wear it at upcoming conferences.
In Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud

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