In April 2023, Alibaba Cloud demonstrated a chatbot whose name roughly translates to "truth from a thousand questions." Less than four years later, its descendant ships open weights with 2.4 trillion parametersβa leap that few in the industry anticipated. This is the story of how Qwen got there, release by release.
Chapter 1 β 2023: A Thousand Questions
Alibaba moved after ChatGPT, but not by much. On April 7, 2023, Alibaba Cloud began handing invitation codes to corporate customers...
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