Qwen (千问) : Alibaba's free AI assistant for chatting, coding help and image or video generation.

Rolled out as a free consumer app in November 2025, Qwen is Alibaba's assistant built on the Qwen3 models, with qianwen.com offering that chat in a browser.

One conversation can answer questions, summarize long articles, help debug code, translate text and generate images or video from prompts. It also builds slide decks and solves homework from a photo.

Alibaba also releases the Qwen models as open source, giving the name a global developer audience beyond qianwen.com's Chinese-language chat.

Is Qwen safe for enterprise use?

Qwen has safety alignment that includes China's content policies. For international enterprise use, self-hosting allows customization of content filters. The model has competitive performance in math, coding, and multilingual tasks.

How does Qwen's open-source strategy work?

Alibaba releases Qwen models from 0.5B to 110B parameters under open-source licenses. This is the largest open-source LLM series from China. Developers can deploy on their own infrastructure, unlike most proprietary Chinese LLMs.

Can international developers use Qwen?

Qwen is available globally as an open-source model on Hugging Face and through Alibaba Cloud API. Developers worldwide can download and fine-tune it freely. It supports English, Chinese, and multiple other languages.