Several Core Members of AliQwen Resign, Smartape Founder Tang Jie Publicly Calls on Departing Members to "Join Us"

According to 1M AI News monitoring, Lin Junyang, the technical leader of Alibaba's Qwen team, officially resigned from Alibaba on the afternoon of March 3 and posted on X early on March 4, saying "me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen." Qwen team member Kaixin Li announced her departure on the same day. Tang Jie, the founder and chief scientist of Zhipu AI, then responded on X as follows: to Lin Junyang, he replied "cool. start a new journey," and to Kaixin Li, he replied "join us, more focus," openly expressing his intention to recruit.

Also resigning on the same day was Qwen's post-training leader Yu Bowen, whose position was taken over by Zhou Hao, a former senior researcher at DeepMind who joined Tongyi Laboratory earlier this year; Qwen's Code leader Hui Bin had already resigned in January to join Meta. According to a report by LatePost, Lin Junyang's resignation is related to the organizational adjustment that the Qwen team is currently undergoing: Tongyi Lab plans to split Qwen from a vertically integrated system into teams with horizontal divisions of labor such as pre-training, post-training, text, and multimodal, Lin Junyang's management scope has been reduced, and the direction of the split is not in line with his technical judgment that the teams should be more closely integrated. Internally at Alibaba, some executives were not completely satisfied with the Qwen-3.5 released on New Year's Eve, referring to it as a "semi-finished product." Lin Junyang, born in 1993, joined Alibaba DAMO Academy after graduating with a master's degree from Peking University in 2019 and became Alibaba's youngest P10 in 2025. (LatePost)