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Act III · The ChatGPT moment

Open modelAlibaba

Qwen goes open source

Alibaba open-sourced Qwen-7B, then kept releasing a full range of models from small to large.

Why it matters

Later widely seen as one of the most downloaded and most fine-tuned open model families in the world, and the flagship of China's open-source path.

Built on

ERNIE Bot

Led to

Qwen3

Source: github.com ↗

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