Our Vision
Open Access Models for All
Alibaba’s open weight ecosystem is designed to promote innovation and accelerate breakthroughs by enabling scientists, entrepreneurs and anyone with an idea to access the latest cutting-edge technology and build their own models more cost-effectively.
Lowering Barriers for Builders Everywhere
Alibaba’s open weight approach enables startups, small businesses, and resource-constrained developers to efficiently build and run Qwen models unburdened by restrictive hardware or licensing limitations.
Advancing Research, Accelerating Progress
By empowering researchers to test out ideas, refine techniques, and suggest improvements, Alibaba is helping to advance research and accelerate scientific progress around the world.
Building Confidence Through Open Access
In making models open access and easy to inspect, Alibaba allows researchers and developers to better analyze and understand model behaviours, building trust and reducing dependence on more opaque systems.
Fuelling a Fast Growing Global Ecosystem
As one of the world’s most widely adopted open weight model families, Alibaba’s commitment to keeping its models open weight has helped to promote innovation, fostering a more competitive and diverse global AI ecosystem.
Safety and Security Built into the Stack
Through secure hosting and rigorous controls to mitigate risks such as tampering or version drift, Alibaba pairs openness with strong governance, ensuring its models can be adopted safely and at scale.
