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Juro Osawa @ The Information · 04/02/2026 04:59 EDT

Alibaba Launches Another Closed-Source AI Model

Alibaba Group’s shift from open-source AI models is becoming more apparent. On Thursday, the Chinese tech giant, which has become a global leader in open-source models in the past two years, launched a new large language model called Qwen3.6-Plus, touting its “significant advancement in agentic ...

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