TLDR Tech / AI
Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
The Qwen team has just seen some very high-profile departures. Junyang Lin, the lead researcher building Qwen, recently announced his departure on X. Following this, several other Qwen member also announced their departures, including Binyuan Hui, who was responsible for the entire agent training process from pre-training to post-training; Bowen Yu, who led the development of the Qwen-Instruct series models; and Kaixin Li, a core contributor to Qwen 3.5/VL/Coder. The new Qwen 3.5 models appear to be exceptionally good, so it is an interesting time for the team to disband.
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