Nov. 16 at 11:39 AM
$BABA 200$. “Qwen Panic”: How Alibaba’s AI Ambitions Are Shaking Silicon Valley
Major American companies have quietly adopted it. Amazon, for example, uses Qwen to develop simulation software for its next-generation delivery robots. Apple, facing regulatory barriers in China, chose Qwen to power Siri’s AI requests in the Chinese market.
In academia and research, the shift is even more striking. Stanford researchers led by Fei-Fei Li built a top-tier reasoning model (“S1”) on Qwen2.5-32B — for under
$50. The Allen Institute for AI built its multimodal system on Qwen2-72B, while former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new lab includes Qwen as a default fine-tuning option.