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The Story of Qwen: Alibaba's AI Models From 7B to 2.4T

Alibaba's Qwen went from an invite-only chatbot in April 2023 to a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model in August 2026. This is the full story, release by release: every major model, its key feature, and how its license changed. Each claim links to its source. The post The Story of Qwen: Alibab…

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  1. 2026-10-05 04:10 · MarkTechPost
    The Story of Qwen: Alibaba's AI Models From 7B to 2.4T

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  1. Strata is seriously impressive, running Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on hermes at 512k context. — r/LocalLLM
  2. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 177B running at 11–15 tok/s on a single RTX 5070 12GB + 32GB RAM DDR4 — r/LocalLLaMA
  3. One .char model, Consistent face, body & cloths, now works in Comfy(Custom node & workflows) MinimaxH3 & Flux2 — r/comfyui
  4. llama, server: add /v1/systemone API (models: laya, julia-1, lev, openjev, kev) by ngxson · Pull Request #29818 · ggml-org/llama.cpp — r/LocalLLaMA
  5. My frontier class agent fact-checks my local AI before I grade it. How do you grade your Agents and LLMs? — r/AI_Agents
  6. Is all the work that's being put into Qwen3.8 Flash Next going to set us up for a very quick uplift to Qwen4? — r/LocalLLaMA
  7. ComfyUI Qwen image 2.1 Enhancer (Two nodes) — r/StableDiffusion
  8. I built Ninfer 4080 for 16GB class GPUs — r/LocalLLaMA

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