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Alibaba's Qwen team builds the Qwen models — the most-downloaded open-weight AI family in the world.
The brief: Anthropic told a US Senate committee Alibaba-linked operators ran a record distillation campaign against Claude. Alibaba denies it; the figures are unverified.
The year free models caught the frontier. The brief.
Alibaba's open-model juggernaut — what it is, why it dominates, and the 2026 shift.