Key Members Depart from Qwen Team Amid Changes

On March 4, Junyang Lin, the technical lead of Qwen, announced his departure from the team on the X platform. According to BlockBeats, another technical lead, Binyuan Hui, updated his profile to reflect his former role with Alibaba's Qwen team. Additionally, Kaixin Li, a core contributor to Qwen3.5, Qwen VL, and Qwen Coder, also posted a farewell message. The Qwen team recently released the Qwen3.5 model series, which received positive feedback from the community. Analysts suggest that changes in Alibaba Cloud's evaluation methods for the Qwen team have directly led to the departure of key members.