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2026
Alibaba and Apple partner on Qwen integration
Alibaba partnered with Apple to integrate Alibaba's Qwen AI model into Apple Intelligence for the Chinese market.
2026
Alibaba Qwen releases QwenGyre online reinforcement learning framework
Alibaba's Qwen team officially released QwenGyre, an online reinforcement learning framework for long-horizon agent tasks, providing elastic scheduling and trajectory handling; in official NL2RepoBench experiments the model pass rate rose from 52.5% to 58.5% after 48 training steps, with a 1.78x end-to-end speedup over the Async implementation under the same GPU budget.
2026
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Flash and open-sources Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE model with 125B main parameters and 51B N-gram embedding parameters activating 6B per token, priced at 1 yuan per million input tokens and 3 yuan per million output tokens on the Qwen AI platform, and simultaneously open-sourced the same model as Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
2026
Alibaba Qwen team open-sources Qwen3.8-Flash-Next multimodal MoE model
Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen team open-sourced Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture. The multimodal MoE model has 125 billion total parameters with 6 billion activated per token, a 256K native context window extended to 1M via YaRN, and Day-0 support from SGLang.
2026
Alibaba Qwen releases Qwen-UI-Agent GUI agent foundation model
Alibaba's Qwen large model team officially released Qwen-UI-Agent, a GUI graphical-interface agent foundation model for real devices covering mobile, PC desktop, web and deep-search environments, allowing AI to read screen interfaces and simulate human operation of apps and software. The model reported benchmark scores including 82.1% on MobileWorld, 92.2% on MobileWorld-Real, 97.5% on AndroidDaily, 79.5% on OSWorld-Verified, 73.6% on WebArena and 81.5% on ScreenSpot-Pro, and includes safety mechanisms requiring user confirmation for sensitive operations such as payments, data deletion and permission grants.
2026
Alibaba open-sources Qwen3.8-27B model
Alibaba open-sourced Qwen3.8-27B, a native multimodal dense model with 27 billion parameters that it says surpasses Qwen3.7-Plus overall and performs well in real coding and office scenarios, running smoothly on consumer-grade GPUs after quantization.
2026
MediaTek and Qwen deepen cooperation with Day-0 support for Qwen 3.8 on Dimensity platforms
On August 15, MediaTek announced it is deepening cooperation with Qwen, with its Dimensity automotive cockpit platform C-X1 and Dimensity flagship chips achieving Day-0 support for Qwen 3.8, allowing devices on Dimensity platforms to access the new Qwen model faster.