Gate News message, April 3, the newly released ranking of CodeArena, an AI programming-focused competition under the globally renowned model blind test leaderboard LMArena, was published. Alibaba’s latest generation large language model, Qwen 3.6-Plus, ranked second on the global leaderboard, surpassing international giants such as OpenAI, Google, and xAI, becoming the highest-ranked Chinese model on that leaderboard.

Gate News, April 2, Alibaba released the Qwen3.6-Plus next-generation large language model Qwen3.6-Plus. The model has native multimodal understanding and reasoning capabilities, and can autonomously break down tasks, plan paths, test changes, and complete tasks in scenarios such as front-end web development and warehouse-level complex tasks. Currently, Qwen3.6-Plus has been listed on Alibaba Cloud’s Bailian platform, priced at the equivalent of 2 yuan minimum per million Tokens (tokens) for input; Qwen 3.6 has also launched on Wu Kong, the Qwen App, and other AI applications and platforms.

Animoca Brands launched the AliBAE platform based on Alibaba’s Qwen model on March 31. The platform supports creators in producing AI-assisted content and earning CHECK tokens. The platform is now open for early access, and it offers 100,000 CHECK rewards through promotions. Creators can participate in tasks to produce videos or applications and receive rewards.

Alibaba Qwen3.5-Omni, a fully multimodal large model, was released on March 30. It includes Instruct versions in three different sizes, supports long context, and supports multiple audio and video inputs. The model is pretrained on massive amounts of data, significantly improving multilingual capabilities, and supports 113 speech recognition languages and 36 speech generation modes.

The open-source AI agent tool OpenClaw has released version v2026.3.28, which removes the deprecated Qwen OAuth integration, stops automatic migration of old configurations, adds xAI provider, image generation and editing features, and fixes multiple issues.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin praised the mathematical analytical capabilities of AI model Qwen 35B, particularly its performance in parsing the Willans formula. He was impressed by the model's ability to complete complex calculations in a short timeframe and called its approach of combining modular arithmetic with elementary functions very cool.

Gate News report: On March 19, Alibaba (Hong Kong stock code: 09988.HK) released its latest performance data. Alibaba Cloud revenue accelerated growth of 36% year-over-year; flagship AI application Qwen app achieved large-scale real-world service capabilities, with Qwen consumer-facing application monthly active users surpassing 300 million.

Gate News Report, March 9 — According to LatePost, Alibaba announced management adjustments for the Qwen team today. Alibaba Cloud CTO and Tongyi Laboratory Director Zhou Jingren will oversee the Qwen Model No. 1; Liu Dayi Heng, responsible for pre-training, will also take over post-training and the Coding team, reporting to Zhou Jingren. This adjustment follows the sudden departure of former Qwen leader Lin Junyang last week. Alibaba stated that they will continue to adhere to their open-source strategy, and there will be no significant changes in the collaboration model for core modules such as pre-training and post-training.

PANews March 5 News, Google DeepMind Developer Experience Lead Omar Sanseviero posted, saying "Qwen friends…please reach out," inviting Tongyi Qianwen team members to join and participate in the open-source model ecosystem. The background of the news is that the recent resignation of core Qianwen members such as Lin Junyang has attracted attention.

PANews February 27 News, in the future, all new AI glasses launched by Alibaba will be uniformly branded as "Qwen AI Glasses" (Qwen Glasses) for the global market. The already launched Quark AI Glasses will be updated in functionality to stay in sync with Qwen AI Glasses and will enjoy Qwen AI services.