BlockBeats News, March 4th, early this morning, Junyang Lin, CTO of Qwen, bid farewell on X platform and announced his resignation. Another CTO, Binyuan Hui (@huybery), also updated his profile to “Former Alibaba Qwen Team MTS.” Additionally, Kaixin Li, a key contributor to Qwen3.5, Qwen VL, and Qwen Coder, also posted a farewell message early this morning.
It is worth noting that the Qwen team released the Qwen3.5 Small Model series yesterday, which received wide acclaim from the community.
According to informed sources, the change in Alibaba Cloud’s assessment of the Qwen team was the direct reason for the resignations of key team members.
