Qwen Mini Model Series Released for Only One Day, Several Tech Leads Simultaneously Announce Resignation

BlockBeats News, March 4th, Earlier today, Lin Junyang, CTO of Qwen, bid farewell on X platform and announced his resignation. Another CTO, Hui Bin Yuan (@huybery), also updated his profile to "Former Alibaba Qwen Team MTS." In addition, Kaixin Li, a core contributor to Qwen 3.5, Qwen VL, and Qwen Coder, also posted a farewell message earlier today.

It is worth noting that the Qwen team released the Qwen 3.5 small model series yesterday, which received widespread community acclaim.

According to sources familiar with the matter, changes in Alibaba Cloud's management and assessment of the Qwen team were the direct reasons for the departure of key team members.

It is reported that some senior executives within Alibaba were not entirely satisfied with the Qwen-3.5 unveiled on New Year's Eve, calling it a "work in progress."