Qwen
24 releases · Aug 2023 – Sep 2026
Alibaba's AI lab, building the Qwen family. The most prolific publisher of open-weight models of any major lab, alongside a proprietary Max and Plus tier sold through Alibaba Cloud. AI Release Tracker has logged 24 Qwen models, from Qwen-7B (Aug 3 2023) through Qwen3.8-Max-0902 (Sep 2 2026). Every release below links to a dedicated page with benchmarks, parameters, and context window.
A new Qwen model typically arrives about every 12 days, with the next projected around Monday, Sep 14, 2026. Its strongest benchmark results to date include BullshitBench v2 (95%, on Qwen3.8-Max), OSWorld-Verified (86.1%, on Qwen3.8-Max), and CharXiv Reasoning (88.4%, on Qwen3.8-Max). 16 of the 24 models tracked here are open-weight or open-source; the rest are proprietary.
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The most recent Qwen model tracked on AI Release Tracker is Qwen3.8-Max-0902, released on Sep 2 2026.