AI provider / Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud
A provider frequently referenced for broad model ranges, practical enterprise-cloud framing and model lines discussed in open-weight contexts.
Alibaba Cloud now reads less like a single Qwen story and more like a full first-party AI catalog inside Model Studio. The current lineup spans flagship and flash text models, coding agents, OCR, image generation and editing, video generation, speech, realtime translation, multimodal Omni variants, and retrieval layers such as embeddings and rerankers.
This page intentionally tracks Alibaba-owned lines such as Qwen, Wan, HappyHorse and CosyVoice, rather than third-party models that may also appear in the platform catalog. That makes the provider easier to read as a producer in its own right: one where cloud infrastructure, agent tooling and model breadth are designed to reinforce each other.
Model catalog
Every release in this provider’s model line.
Each row is a distinct model release — its date, its type and the traits it is known for. Open a source to dig into any of them.
| Model | Released | Type | Key traits | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.7-Max | Jun 2026 | Flagship |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3.7-Plus | Jun 2026 | Flagship |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash-Realtime | May 2026 | Audio |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro | Apr 2026 | Visual |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| HappyHorse 1.0 | Apr 2026 | Visual |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3.6-Flash | Apr 2026 | Cost optimized |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3.6-Max Preview | Apr 2026 | Flagship |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Wan 2.7 Video Suite | Apr 2026 | WAN |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3.6-Plus | Apr 2026 | Flagship |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash | Mar 2026 | Multimodal |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen-Image-2.0 | Mar 2026 | Visual |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3-ASR-Flash | Mar 2026 | Audio |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| CosyVoice V3 Plus | Feb 2026 | Audio |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3-Rerank | Jan 2026 | Embeddings |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen-Image-Edit-Max | Jan 2026 | Visual |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3-TTS-VD-Realtime | Jan 2026 | Audio |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen-Image-Max | Dec 2025 | Visual |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3-VL-Plus | Dec 2025 | Visual |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Wan 2.6-T2I | Dec 2025 | WAN |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3-Omni-Flash | Dec 2025 | Multimodal |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3-TTS-Flash | Nov 2025 | Audio |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen-VL-OCR | Nov 2025 | Visual |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3-Max | Sep 2025 | Flagship |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3-Coder-Plus | Sep 2025 | Coding |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3-LiveTranslate-Flash-Realtime | Sep 2025 | Audio |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen-Embedding | Aug 2025 | Embeddings |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen-Flash | Aug 2025 | Cost optimized |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen-MT-Plus | Jul 2025 | Translation |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| Qwen3 | Apr 2025 | Hybrid reasoning |
| Qwen blog |
| Qwen2.5-Max | Jan 2025 | Flagship |
| Qwen blog |
| QwQ-32B-Preview | Nov 2024 | Reasoning |
| Qwen blog |
| Qwen 2.5 | Sep 2024 | Model release |
| Qwen blog |
| Qwen2 | Jun 2024 | Model release |
| Qwen blog |
| Qwen 1.5 | Feb 2024 | Open release |
| Qwen blog |
| Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 | Oct 2023 | Version update |
| Alibaba Cloud |
| Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) | Apr 2023 | Debut |
| CNBC |
Timeline
A practical timeline of model releases and company milestones.
This page tracks the moments that matter most: major model releases, version jumps and company moves that changed how this provider shows up in the AI market.
Qwen 3.7-Max arrives with Alibaba’s rebuilt cloud stack for agents.
Alibaba introduced Qwen 3.7-Max together with a cloud stack rebuilt for long-running autonomous agents, linking model progress directly to infrastructure strategy.
Qwen3.5 opens with a 397B-A17B MoE, smaller tiers following within days.
The release pace itself — four models in nine days — becomes Qwen’s competitive signature, with 3.6 arriving soon after.
Qwen3-Max crosses the trillion-parameter mark at Apsara.
The proprietary flagship tops a year that also brought Qwen3-Coder, Omni and VL, splitting the strategy into open family plus closed peak.
Qwen3 launches with hybrid thinking modes and a broader open-weight family.
The Qwen line expands into a more mature family spanning reasoning, speed and multiple model sizes, making it easier to map Alibaba Cloud across developer and enterprise use cases.
Qwen2.5-Max answers DeepSeek during Lunar New Year.
Released days after R1 shook the market, the large-scale MoE claims wins over V3 — a sign of how fast the domestic race had become.
QwQ-32B-Preview opens Qwen’s reasoning branch.
An Apache-licensed thinking model released before R1 makes Qwen an early mover in open reasoning.
Model Studio scales and Alibaba Cloud deepens its ecosystem partnerships.
At Apsara Conference, Alibaba Cloud said Tongyi had attracted more than 300,000 customers via Model Studio and highlighted collaborations such as Qwen integration with NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin.
Qwen 2.5 lands with over 100 newly launched open-source models.
Alibaba Cloud pairs the Qwen 2.5 family with a broader AI infrastructure refresh, making this one of the clearest moments where model breadth and platform investment move together.
Qwen2 lifts the family to 27 languages and 128K context.
The generation that turns Qwen from a Chinese-market story into a serious global open-weight contender.
Model Studio becomes part of Alibaba Cloud’s international AI push.
Alibaba Cloud ties new global infrastructure investment to wider access for Model Studio, turning the platform into a more visible bridge between its cloud footprint and AI product layer.
Qwen 1.5 commits to the full size ladder, from 0.5B to 72B.
Six open sizes released at once make Qwen the broadest open family available and define its edge-to-datacenter strategy.
Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 marks an early step toward a fuller product stack.
Alibaba Cloud updates its flagship model and pairs it with industry models plus tooling across the generative AI stack, signaling a move from single-model narrative to product system.
Tongyi Qianwen debuts as Alibaba Cloud’s foundational LLM line.
The original launch set the direction for how Alibaba would thread large models through cloud services, enterprise applications and the broader product ecosystem.