Technology and cloud company
Alibaba
Alibaba Group is a Chinese technology company headquartered in Hangzhou whose Qwen team develops the Qwen family of language, vision and image generation models. Many Qwen models are published with open weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope, and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio sells API access to Qwen models.
Last reviewed 28 Oct 2026
Facts at a glance
| Type | Technology, e-commerce and cloud computing company |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Hangzhou, China |
| Founded | 1999 |
| AI model family | Qwen (language, vision-language and image generation models) source |
| Licensor for Qwen-Image-2.1 | Hangzhou Tongyi Laboratory Technology Co., Ltd. source |
| API platform | Alibaba Cloud Model Studio source |
Questions people ask
- Who builds the Qwen models?
- The Qwen team at Alibaba. The licence for Qwen-Image-2.1 names Hangzhou Tongyi Laboratory Technology Co., Ltd. as the licensor.
- Where are Qwen open-weight models published?
- On the Qwen organisation pages on Hugging Face and ModelScope, with code on GitHub under QwenLM.