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1080 Alibaba’s New Multimodal AI Model is Not Open-Source

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Juro Osawa @ The Information · 03/31/2026 04:22 EDT

Alibaba’s New Multimodal AI Model is Not Open-Source

Alibaba Group has released the new generation of its large language model that can understand text, audio, images and video. But this time, the Chinese tech giant is releasing the model, Qwen3.5-Omni, as a proprietary model—unlike its open-source predecessor. The fact that Alibaba decided not to ...

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