Tongyi Qianwen
Track the open-source progress of Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen series and examine trade-offs between language, multimodal and programming models in parameter scale, context length, and deployment cost.
Qwen is Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen large model series, covering language, multimodality, and programming directions, with open weighting as its main strategy. Here, we trace the iteration from Qwen3 to Qwen3.8, examining the trade-offs between flagship models, Qwen3-VL multimodality, and Qwen3-Coder in terms of parameter scale, context length, and implementation cost.