A family of general LLMs made by Alibaba.
Qwen is the all-rounder kid at school. It writes essays. It solves homework. It can read pictures too.
You meet it in chatbots and coding tools. Some companies plug it in as the AI base for their own apps.
LLM
Qwen is part of the LLM family and handles general tasks.
Multimodal AI
Some Qwen versions understand images, not just text.
Open weights
Qwen has open-weight versions for community and company use.
API
Developers call Qwen through an API and add it to products.