Tongyi Qianwen

Tongyi Qianwen is Alibaba's Chinese-language AI assistant, part of the company's Qwen model family, portions of which have been released with open weights.

It handles conversation, document analysis and code, with particular attention to Chinese-language and business use cases, and connects to Alibaba Cloud services for enterprise deployment.

The open-weight releases from the same model family are widely used by developers who want to run models locally or fine-tune them, which is a notable part of its influence beyond the assistant itself.