Alibaba Officially Confirms Continuous Open-Sourcing of Qwen and Wan Models

r/LocalLLaMA / ModelScopevia @ModelScope2022·high signal

Alibaba confirmed via ModelScope that they are committed to continuously releasing new Qwen (LLM) and Wan (video generation) models as open weights, despite competitive pressure from peers like MiniMax moving proprietary. The commitment is backed by Qwen's 700M+ Hugging Face downloads and 100,000+ derivative models, making it the world's largest open-source AI family — surpassing Meta Llama. This reaffirms a strategic divergence from Chinese AI rivals who are closing their model weights.