On the evening of March 5, Alibaba Group refuted the rumors and stated:
1. At present, the Qianwen Model team is stable, there has been no "collective resignation", and all products and services are operating normally.
2. Qianwenhui adheres to the open source strategy. The basic model team has never been set up with commercial KPIs such as DAU. The goal of Qwen's large model is to continuously pursue the upper limit of model intelligence and achieve AGI.
3. Alibaba sincerely welcomes the world’s top AI talents to join and jointly build world-class large model technology and open source ecosystem. Alibaba will continue to increase investment to provide solid support for the Qianwen team and strive to reach technological peaks.
Recently, Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen team has experienced many personnel changes, and many core members have officially announced their resignation.
First, Lin Junyang, the core person in charge of Tongyi Qianwen, announced his resignation from the Qianwen project, which attracted widespread attention from the outside world.
Since then, Qwen post-training leader Yu Bowen, Qwen Code leader Hui Binyuan, and Qwen3.5 & VL & Coder core contributor Li Kaixin also announced their departure from Qwen.
On the morning of March 5, Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming responded to Lin Junyang’s resignation in an internal email, saying that he had approved Lin Junyang’s resignation.
According to insiders, the real reason for this personnel change is that as Qianwen has been promoted to the group's overall strategy, the company plans to introduce more top technical talents and increase the talent density of the team. The process involves the adjustment of Lin Junyang's rights and responsibilities. The two parties failed to reach an agreement, and Lin Junyang finally resigned.
