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Bye My Beloved Qwen: The Engineer Behind Alibaba's Open-Source Empire — and the Split That Made Him Leave

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At 2 a.m. on March 4, 2026, Junyang Lin posted eight words on X: "me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen." Two days earlier, he had open-sourced Qwen3.5 — a release Elon Musk publicly praised for its "intelligence density." Five months later, Qwen3.8-27B shipped with DeepSWE jumping from 13.3 to 42.…

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    Bye My Beloved Qwen: The Engineer Behind Alibaba's Open-Source Empire — and the Split That Made Him Leave

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