Alibaba Cloud (China) · last updated 2026-10-14
Qwen
Qwen is Alibaba Cloud's conversational AI, powered by the Qwen model family. The consumer app is reported to have been renamed from Tongyi to Qwen. Reporting indicates recent models are in the Qwen3.7 and 3.8 range; check the AI Models reference for current versions. Strong in the Chinese market and across Asia, with web search grounding. Open-source Qwen variants are widely deployed across the Chinese AI ecosystem.
Grounding model
Qwen models with web grounding that, in our observation, leans toward Chinese-language sources (Baidu, WeChat public articles, Zhihu, Chinese news) plus global English sources where relevant. Alibaba does not document the retrieval sources in detail.
Citation style
Inline source attribution with title and domain. Alibaba does not document the layout in detail.
What it rewards
- Chinese-language coverage of the topic (or high-quality translation if originally English)
- Presence on Chinese-friendly platforms (Zhihu, WeChat public accounts)
- Clean structured data and dating
- Specific factual claims and citable sentences
What it penalizes
- English-only content for Chinese-language queries
- Pages blocked from Chinese crawlers
- Heavily generic or boilerplate listicle content