qwen

Definition

A family of large language models released by Alibaba. Its defining characteristics are open weights across a wide range of sizes, strong multilingual coverage with particular strength in Chinese and English, and a set of derivative models extending the base into vision, audio, and code. Because the weights are downloadable, Qwen checkpoints are a common starting point for fine-tuning and self-hosted deployment.

Explainers using this term

• Paper walkthrough: Qwen-Drive-1.0 — bolting 3D perception and planning onto a VLM without touching its architectureQwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving
• Paper walkthrough: Puro-2B — pretraining a 2B model from scratch for $6.9K on consumer GPUsPuro-2B: Poor Lab's Qwen2-1.5B Trained on RTX 5090 within $5090
• Paper Walkthrough: Designing Qwen3.8-Next — Accuracy, Efficiency and Stability as One ProblemOn the Design of Qwen3.8-Next Architecture: Evaluation, Efficiency, and Training Stability