Qwen
Alibaba's open-weight family; most-forked on Hugging Face
Qwen is Alibaba's open-weight family spanning dense and MoE models, coder, vision-language, and reasoning (QwQ) variants, and is among the most-downloaded and most-fine-tuned model bases worldwide. It is the leading open alternative to Llama and a cornerstone of China's open AI ecosystem despite export controls on training compute.
Maker
Alibaba (Tongyi)
License
Open weights
Breadth
Dense, MoE, coder, VL, reasoning
How it fits the stack
Qwen with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
Qwen in the AI stack. Qwen with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 5 entities, 4 relationships
- Qwen —hosts→ Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun)
- Qwen —hosts→ Hugging Face
- llama.cpp / Ollama / GGUF (edge inference) —uses→ Qwen
- Qwen —designs→ Alibaba Qwen (Tongyi)
Depends on ↑ · 2
Context — capital, rivals, policy · · 1