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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: 24 July 2026
Overview
Global technology group whose Qwen team releases competitive multilingual and multimodal foundation models for cloud and open-weight use.
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
Products
Foundation models
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