Simon Willison • 3/4/2026

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

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This article details the sudden resignation of Junyang Lin, the lead researcher, and several other key members from Alibaba's Qwen AI model team. It discusses the potential trigger being an internal reorganization and includes translated reports from Chinese media, analyzing the impact on the open-source AI project's continuity and direction.

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