The Story of Qwen: Alibaba’s AI Models From 7B to 2.4T

Alibaba's Qwen went from an invite-only chatbot in April 2023 to a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model in August 2026. This is the full story, release by release: every major model, its key feature, and how its license changed. Each claim links to its source. The post The Story of Qwen: Alibaba’s AI Models From 7B to 2.4T appeared first on MarkTechPost .