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Alibaba / Qwen news

The latest Alibaba / Qwen news: launches, models, research, repos, deals and discussion. 28 stories in today’s issue from 12 outlets, ranked by heat.

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01Top Alibaba / Qwen stories today

From issue #006, November 6, 2026. Filter the live feed.

02Earlier this week

The hottest Alibaba / Qwen stories from the previous 5 issues.

  1. Apple Intelligence to roll out on iPhones in China in December with Alibaba backingNov 1, 2026 · NewsSouth China Morning Post · · heat 86 · 4 outletsAlso covered by Businesskorea, Asia News Network, Türkiye Today
  2. Apple Begins China Trial Of AI Tools Powered By Alibaba's QwenNov 4, 2026 · NewsDataconomy · · heat 81 · 2 outletsAlso covered by inkl
  3. Like GPT-6 Astra, Qwen 3.8 27B can interpret model weightsNov 4, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 81 · 2 outletsAlso covered by Hacker News
  4. Alibaba’s Qwen AI to be integrated into Apple Intelligence in major partnershipNov 1, 2026 · NewsQazinform · · heat 79 · 3 outletsAlso covered by The Express Tribune, CGTN
  5. GPT-6 Astra Edits Qwen Weights: MATH-500 7.9% to 48.1%Nov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 79 · 2 outletsAlso covered by r/LocalLLM
  6. China Speeds AI Law; DeepSeek, Alibaba Face Disclosure PushNov 3, 2026 · NewsFourWeekMBA · · heat 78
  7. Coding agents on a local model: Qwen 35B writes code at 346 tok/s on an M5 Max (Claude Code, Codex and opencode on Kapitsa)Nov 1, 2026 · Threadr/ChatGPTCoding · · heat 78
  8. QWEN 3.8 FN - 8bit FP quant - 96.32 tokens/s - Context of 95k - $1500 hardwareNov 5, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 76
  9. abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-QuantizedNov 3, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 75
  10. Alibaba's Qwen Code repo just leaked qwen4-max, qwen4-coder-plus, and qwen4-omni-120bNov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 75
  11. New Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Unsloth Dynamic v3.1 GGUFs for +15% accuracy!Nov 5, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 75 · 2 outletsAlso covered by r/LocalLLaMA
  12. Qwen 4's date rumors are this week and November 16Nov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 75
  13. I textured an entire street in Blender with Qwen Image 2.1, then made cyberpunk, anime and papercraft versions of itNov 3, 2026 · Threadr/StableDiffusion · · heat 74
  14. Official Statement: Qwen Models Will Stick to Open Source to the End!Nov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 73
  15. Buy 32GB RAM right now?Nov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 73
  16. I used Qwen3.8 Flash-Next to reverse-engineer an Android car stereoNov 4, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 73
  17. divagr1925/Qwen3.5-4B-QwenputerNov 4, 2026 · ModelHugging Face · trending · heat 72
  18. Qwen3.8-27B has become unuseable recentlyNov 5, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 72
  19. Qwen be likeNov 5, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 72
  20. We will take your RAMNov 4, 2026 · Threadr/StableDiffusion · · heat 72
  21. Pretty happy with my local AI setup (M5 Max 128 GB)Nov 2, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 70
  22. Apple opens AI beta in China with Qwen-integrated SiriNov 5, 2026 · Newsdigitimes · · heat 69
  23. Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-LoRAs-FastNov 4, 2026 · ModelHugging Face Spaces · trending · heat 69
  24. I tried MIT's "weight-space programming" on my own use case: Claude rewrote 8 neurons of Gemma 4 12B to change how it translates one Italian tenseNov 4, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 69
  25. H3 Long-Gen with Qwen 3.8 Flash Next prompting every 18sec went in a really wild direction (2min14s)Nov 3, 2026 · Threadr/StableDiffusion · · heat 69
  26. Viggle Turbo for Qwen-Image-2.1Nov 1, 2026 · ModelHugging Face Spaces · trending · heat 68
  27. QIE-2511 Rapid-AIO LoRAs Fast (Experimental)Nov 1, 2026 · ModelHugging Face Spaces · trending · heat 68
  28. Do you think the new Qwen 4.0 will make the hardware even harder to get? And more expensive?Nov 4, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 68
  29. Qwen 3.8 27b is sometimes so smart it scares me...Nov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 67
  30. Qwhen?Nov 4, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 67
  31. Qwen 3.8 - Flash Next Strata Navier - Strokes - WhirlNov 5, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 66
  32. Testing Huihui Qwen3.8 27B abliteratedNov 2, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 66
  33. Qwen 4 When ?Nov 2, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 65
  34. Alleged Mythos Class "leak" is fake. Forensic Investigation inside.Nov 2, 2026 · Threadr/singularity · · heat 63
  35. Getting incredible results with a single RTX 3090ti and 128gb of ram. Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (35 tok/s decode) and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (130 tok/s decode)Nov 2, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 62 · 2 outletsAlso covered by r/LocalLLM
  36. New sparse attention method for ultra-long contextNov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 62
  37. What Qwen is thinking when it gets stuck saying "Wait"Nov 4, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 61
  38. AI Agent Task performance of small LLM models (4B and below) in self-assessment setNov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 60
  39. Qwen3.8-27B UD-Q4_K_XL@262k context(66 tok/s at that depth) on a single 3090: 138 tok/s sampled decode (157 greedy, 233 code, 382 parallel),KL divergence @160k 0.00472 (q8_0: 0.00467)Nov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 59
  40. GPT-6 Astra sees the matrix and reprograms other AI models directly through their weightsNov 5, 2026 · NewsThe Decoder · · heat 58
  41. CCORE GLB-3D-Coder 4B final model and full weights are outNov 5, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 58
  42. Alibaba Climbs 5% as Apple Picks Qwen to Power iPhone AI in China; PDD Holdings Rises 3%, Baidu Gains 2%Nov 3, 2026 · News24/7 Wall St. · · heat 57 · 3 outletsAlso covered by Technology Org, Businesskorea
  43. Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench HardNov 2, 2026 · ThreadHacker News · · heat 56
  44. Speedy - custom Strata for single/dual RTX - Tested on RTX 3080 with 4,270 t/s prefill / up to 211 t/s decode - fastest Qwen3.8 Flash-Next engine I knowNov 2, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 56
  45. HBConline/xiaochen-voiceNov 3, 2026 · RepoGitHub · · heat 55
  46. Setup For Automatic Reverse EngineeringNov 2, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 55
  47. dbreunig/nesformerNov 2, 2026 · ReadSimon Willison · · heat 55
  48. The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleadingNov 5, 2026 · ThreadHacker News · · heat 54
  49. Am I the only one who frequently opens this subreddit and stumbles upon announcements about Qwen4?Nov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 52
  50. Apple begins AI trial in China, powered by AlibabaNov 5, 2026 · NewsEuronews.com · · heat 51
  51. My budget LLM build.Nov 4, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 51
  52. Groot-65B-A6B looks interesting. Can someone with enough RAM test the Q4 and tell us if it's the real deal?Nov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 50
  53. I found another niche use case for local LLMs, but need some adviceNov 3, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 49
  54. LEANGUARD: Lean-Verified Guardrails for Tool-Using AgentsNov 4, 2026 · PaperHF Daily Papers · · heat 48
  55. Strata viable for bigger quants?Nov 2, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLM · · heat 47
  56. Am I Crazy Or GLM 5.3 Flash is Hilarious?Nov 1, 2026 · Threadr/LocalLLaMA · · heat 44
  57. Alibaba Group partners with Apple to integrate Qwen AI model into Apple IntelligenceNov 3, 2026 · NewsGlobal Sources · · heat 39
  58. BABA Stock At Near Two-Month Highs — Kimi AI's Moonshot Reportedly Has A Power Agreement With Alibaba For 20K Nvidia ChipsNov 2, 2026 · NewsStocktwits · · heat 39
  59. I Trained Qwen 4B with Distillation to Catch Qwen 27BNov 5, 2026 · VideoPrompt Engineering · · heat 32
  60. Alibaba’s Joe Tsai champions open-source AI at Wuzhen Summit amid US pushbackNov 5, 2026 · NewsSouth China Morning Post · · heat 29

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