Alibaba Says Qwen 4 Is in Training as It Maps Path to 10-Trillion-Parameter Models

Alibaba said its next-generation Qwen 4 model is now in training, while outlining a broader AI roadmap that includes future Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 systems projected to reach 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameters. The announcement, made at the company’s Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, positions Alibaba’s Qwen family as a central part of its attempt to compete at frontier-model scale while pairing models, chips, data centers and agent software into one stack.