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6. Simon Willison: Qwen Team Mass Exodus Threatens Open Source AI
Willison documents the sudden mass departure of key Qwen researchers from Alibaba — Junyang Lin (lead researcher), Binyuan Hui (code lead), Bowen Yu (post-training lead), and Kaixin Li (core contributor) — apparently triggered by a reorganization that put a new hire from Google's Gemini team in charge. Willison calls it a potential "tragedy" given Qwen 3.5's exceptional quality, especially their skill at scaling models down to 2B parameters. An emergency CEO all-hands was called. This directly i
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