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Public story · 2026-03-04 · source-backed
Junyang Lin (tech lead who built Qwen from lab project to 600M+ downloads) and Yu Bowen (post-training head) resigned one day after Qwen 3.5 launched. Huibin (Qwen Code lead) had already left for Meta in January. The catalyst: Alibaba dismantled Lin's vertically-integrated R&D model, splitting the team into horizontal modules. Hao Zhou (ex-Google DeepMind Gemini) appointed as new lead. BABA shares dropped 5.3% intraday. Google is already recruiting ex-Qwen researchers. Despite turmoil, Qwen's MAU jumped from 31M to 203M in February. Simon Willison calls Qwen 3.5 "truly remarkable" but fears it may be "Qwen's swan song." (Bloomberg)
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