Alibaba2026-09-21 09:28:27Alibaba names Liu Dayiheng to lead Qwen as model leadership becomes clearAlibaba has appointed Liu Dayiheng as the head of its Qwen large language model, with the Yunqi Conference website now listing him as the "Head of the Qwen LLM project." Liu joined Alibaba in 2021 and has remained part of Qwen’s core research and development team since then. The move comes after a series of leadership changes around the company’s AI model organization this year. In March, Qwen technical lead Lin Junyang left to start a business. In June, Zhou Jingren, who had been overseeing AI model research and development, stepped down from related management duties and became Alibaba’s chief scientist. With Liu’s appointment, the leadership structure for the Qwen large language model line has now been formally clarified after two rounds of changes within roughly half a year. Liu has also been placed prominently in this year’s Yunqi Conference lineup, where the official speaker list shows him immediately after Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai and CEO Eddie Wu. He is scheduled to speak at the main forum on the topic "Qwen: Toward Real-World Agents."570
Alibaba2026-09-03 06:39:50Alibaba's Qoder Launches Smart Glasses Edition: Agent Activated by Voice and Visual InputAlibaba introduced a glasses edition of Qoder, initially supporting Qianwen AI Glasses and Leqi AI Glasses. Users can assign tasks by voice, and the glasses capture error messages, whiteboard sketches, or screen info for the Agent to analyze. The interaction supports continuous dialogue without repeated wake words. The Qianwen version is in beta and expected to launch at the Yunqi Conference.1290
