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Alibaba Qwen

25 tracked releases · 16 open weights · median 13 days between releases

At a glance

Releases tracked25
FamiliesQwen · Qwen-Image · Qwen-LiveTranslate · Qwen-VL
First trackedJanuary 25, 2024 — Qwen-VL-Max
LatestSeptember 20, 2026 — Qwen-Image-2.1
Median gap13 days · faster than the 21-day median across tracked labs
Weights16 of 25 open (64%)
Record quality10 of 25 verified · how this is judged

Release cadence

One tile per tracked release, placed in the month it shipped; the year links through to that year's timeline. Tracked releases only — a quiet year here may mean this dataset is thin for that year rather than that the lab was quiet.

  1. 2024
    1. Qwen-VL-Max, Alibaba Qwen, January 25, 2024
    2. Qwen1.5-72B, Alibaba Qwen, February 4, 2024
    3. Qwen2-72B, Alibaba Qwen, June 7, 2024
    4. Qwen2.5-72B, Alibaba Qwen, September 19, 2024
    4
  2. 2025
    1. QwQ-32B, Alibaba Qwen, March 6, 2025
    2. Qwen3-235B-A22B, Alibaba Qwen, April 29, 2025Qwen3-30B-A3B, Alibaba Qwen, April 29, 2025
    3. Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, Alibaba Qwen, July 22, 2025
    4. Qwen-Image, Alibaba Qwen, August 4, 2025
    5
  3. 2026
    1. Qwen3-Max-Thinking, Alibaba Qwen, January 23, 2026
    2. Qwen3-Coder-Next, Alibaba Qwen, February 2, 2026Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, Alibaba Qwen, February 14, 2026
    3. Qwen3.6-Plus, Alibaba Qwen, April 2, 2026Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, Alibaba Qwen, April 15, 2026Qwen3.6-27B, Alibaba Qwen, April 21, 2026
    4. Qwen3.7-Max, Alibaba Qwen, May 16, 2026Qwen3.7-Plus, Alibaba Qwen, May 21, 2026
    5. Qwen-Image-3.0, Alibaba Qwen, July 16, 2026
    6. Qwen3.8-Max, Alibaba Qwen, August 3, 2026Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, Alibaba Qwen, August 3, 2026Qwen3.8-27B, Alibaba Qwen, August 5, 2026Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, Alibaba Qwen, August 8, 2026
    7. Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, Alibaba Qwen, September 18, 2026Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, Alibaba Qwen, September 18, 2026Qwen-Image-2.1, Alibaba Qwen, September 20, 2026
    16

Context window over time

Releases with a disclosed context window — 14 of 25 not shown.

Qwen1.5-72B · 2024 33K tokens
Qwen2-72B · 2024 131K tokens
Qwen2.5-72B · 2024 131K tokens
Qwen3-235B-A22B · 2025 131K tokens
Qwen3-30B-A3B · 2025 131K tokens
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct · 2025 256K tokens
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B · 2026 262K tokens
Qwen3.6-Plus · 2026 1M tokens
Qwen3.8-Max · 2026 256K tokens
Qwen3.8-27B · 2026 256K tokens
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B · 2026 256K tokens

Evidenced capabilities

How often each capability is cited across this lab's releases. Absence means not evidenced, never absent — see data quality.

reasoning 7
coding 5
agentic 5
multilingual 3
image generation 1

Releases

  1. Qwen-Image-2.1Qwen-ImageText inputImage outputSeptember 20, 2026
  2. Qwen3.8-Omni-FlashQwenText in and outSeptember 18, 2026
  3. Qwen3.8-LiveTranslateQwen-LiveTranslateText in and outSeptember 18, 2026
  4. Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95BQwenAugust 8, 2026
  5. Qwen3.8-27BQwenText in and outImage inputAugust 5, 2026
  6. Qwen3.8-MaxQwenText in and outAugust 3, 2026
  7. Qwen3.8-Flash-NextQwenText in and outImage inputAugust 3, 2026
  8. Qwen-Image-3.0Qwen-ImageText in and outJuly 16, 2026
  9. Qwen3.7-PlusQwenText in and outMay 21, 2026
  10. Qwen3.7-MaxQwenText in and outMay 16, 2026
  11. Qwen3.6-27BQwenText in and outApril 21, 2026
  12. Qwen3.6-35B-A3BQwenText in and outApril 15, 2026
  13. Qwen3.6-PlusQwenText in and outApril 2, 2026
  14. Qwen3.5-397B-A17BQwenText in and outFebruary 14, 2026
  15. Qwen3-Coder-NextQwenText in and outFebruary 2, 2026
  16. Qwen3-Max-ThinkingQwenText in and outJanuary 23, 2026
  17. Qwen-ImageQwen-ImageAugust 4, 2025
  18. Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-InstructQwenText in and outJuly 22, 2025
  19. Qwen3-235B-A22BQwenText in and outApril 29, 2025
  20. Qwen3-30B-A3BQwenText in and outApril 29, 2025
  21. QwQ-32BQwenText in and outMarch 6, 2025
  22. Qwen2.5-72BQwenSeptember 19, 2024
  23. Qwen2-72BQwenText in and outJune 7, 2024
  24. Qwen1.5-72BQwenText in and outFebruary 4, 2024
  25. Qwen-VL-MaxQwen-VLJanuary 25, 2024

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