LLM Releases

Lab release history

Last updated May 12, 2026

Alibaba (Qwen) model releases

Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud; prolific open-weight releases. This page collects the lab's model releases, lifecycle events, source links, and model metadata in one crawlable record.

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15 models

Qwen3.6-27B

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open source

Dense 27B that punches far above its weight on agentic coding — easy to self-host on a single GPU node.

Dense27B256K ctxMay 12, 2026

Qwen3.5-397B

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)FrontierOpen source

Native vision-language MoE supporting 201 languages with a 1M-token context.

MoE397B1M ctxFeb 20, 2026

Qwen3-Coder-Next

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open source

Apache-licensed Qwen3-Next coding-agent model with 80B total / 3B active parameters, 256K context, and long-horizon tool-use training.

Hybrid80B262K ctxFeb 3, 2026

Qwen3-235B-A22B

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open source

Largest open Qwen3 MoE, introducing hybrid thinking/non-thinking modes and 119-language coverage.

MoE235B128K ctxApr 28, 2025

Qwen2.5-Omni-7B

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open weights

Local omni-modal Qwen model that supports text, image, audio, video, and speech generation in a 7B package.

Dense7B ctxMar 26, 2025

Qwen2.5-Max

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Proprietary

Proprietary MoE flagship for the Qwen2.5 generation, released through Qwen Chat and Alibaba Cloud APIs.

MoEUndisc. ctxJan 29, 2025

Qwen2.5-VL-72B

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open weights

Vision-language Qwen2.5 model for image, document, video, and agentic visual grounding tasks.

Dense72B128K ctxJan 26, 2025

QwQ-32B-Preview

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open source

Qwen's first public reasoning-preview model, aimed at math, coding, and deliberate problem solving.

Dense32B32K ctxNov 28, 2024

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open source

Code-specialized Qwen2.5 model family, with the 32B checkpoint as the flagship open coding model.

Dense32B128K ctxNov 12, 2024

Qwen2.5-72B

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open weights

Broad Qwen2.5 foundation-model update spanning general, coding, math, and multimodal descendants.

Dense72B128K ctxSep 19, 2024

Qwen2-72B

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open weights

Qwen2's largest dense model, introducing stronger multilingual support, coding/math gains, and long-context variants.

Dense72B128K ctxJun 7, 2024

Qwen1.5-110B

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open weights

Largest Qwen1.5 model, released as the bridge from the original Qwen line to Qwen2.

Dense110B32K ctxFeb 5, 2024

Qwen-72B

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open weights

Alibaba's first major open Qwen model and the start of a prolific open-weight line.

Dense72B32K ctxNov 30, 2023

Qwen-14B

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open weights

Second open Qwen size, expanding the first-generation Qwen language-model lineup.

Dense14B8K ctxSep 25, 2023

Qwen-7B

Available
Alibaba (Qwen)Open weights

Alibaba's first open Qwen checkpoint and the start of the Qwen open-model line.

Dense7B32K ctxAug 3, 2023