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Alibaba
Global technology group whose Qwen team releases competitive multilingual and multimodal foundation models for cloud and open-weight use.
Last reviewed: 31 July 2026
Quick facts
- Founded
- 1999
- Headquarters
- Hangzhou, China
- Ownership
- Public
- Open source
- Yes
- Enterprise
- Yes
- Flagship model
- Qwen3
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- 1Models
- 3Products
- 3Tools
- 1GitHub
- 1Research
- 8Guides
- 13Benchmarks
Company profile
- Founded
- 1999
- Headquarters
- Hangzhou, China
- Founders
- Jack Ma
- CEO
- Eddie Wu (Alibaba Group)
- Funding
- Public
- Ownership
- Public
- Country
- China
- Open source
- Yes
- Cloud provider
- Yes
- Website
- https://www.alibabacloud.com
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