# Alibaba Qwen

[https://timesof.ai/platform/alibaba](https://timesof.ai/platform/alibaba)

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team—frontier multimodal models, open-weight releases, and developer surfaces (Token Plan, Qoder) competing with U.S. closed flagships.

Alibaba’s Qwen organization trains large multimodal models for coding, agentic work, and open-weight distribution, with commercial access through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio / Token Plan and first-party coding products such as Qoder.

## Coverage

- [Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 6B-Active 125B MoE Previewing Qwen4 Cheap](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/alibaba-qwen3-8-flash-next) — Alibaba open-sourced Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B MoE with 6B active parameters previewing Qwen4 — vendor benches only so far.
- [Qwen3.8-27B Drops Apache Multimodal Weights — the Workstation Companion to Max](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/alibaba-qwen-3-8-27b-open-weights) — Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B open weights under Apache 2.0 with 262K native context. Vendor benches are lab-run; no AA Index yet.
- [Qwen3.8-Max Preview: ‘Second Only to Fable 5’—Vendor Claim, Boards Empty](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/alibaba-qwen-3-8-max-preview) — Qwen3.8-Max-Preview (2.4T) live on Token Plan/Qoder—‘second only to Fable 5’ is vendor claim; independent boards empty at launch.