Alibaba's First Public Statement After Qwen Core Members Departure: Will Continue Open-Sourcing Qwen and Wanxiang Series Models and Show Roadmap

After the departure of Qwen's core members raised concerns about Alibaba's open-source roadmap, Alibaba's senior management finally gave a clear response. Zhou Jingren, CTO of Alibaba Cloud and initiator of the ModelScope community, publicly stated at the ModelScope Developer Conference in Nanjing that Alibaba will continue to open-source the Qwen and Wanxiang (Wan) series models.

A detailed open-source roadmap was displayed at the conference, covering three categories of dozens of models: large language models, multimodal models, and vertical domain models, including the Qwen language model series, Qwen3-VL multimodal model, Wan2.2 video generation model, Qwen3-Coder code model, etc., with labels like "All series models open-source, covering full size and full modality" and "More models to be open-sourced soon.

Up to now, the Qwen series has accumulated over 400 official open-source models, more than 34,000 derivative models developed by developers, with a total download volume of 1.2 billion times; the ModelScope community has 25 million users and hosts 170,000 open-source models.