Alibaba

Qwen is the AI model series developed by the cloud division (Alibaba Cloud) of Alibaba, China largest e-commerce company. Alibaba is building an environment where enterprise customers can easily integrate Qwen into their own services, leveraging its vast cloud infrastructure.

A key feature is support for 119 languages and dialects including Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, giving it strength in Asian language processing. It also emphasizes extensibility through MCP (Model Context Protocol) support. Models are freely available for download by developers worldwide, and Qwen is regarded as a top-tier brand in the Chinese open-source model ecosystem.