Qwen’s Builder Walks Away from Alibaba
Lin Junyang, 32 years old, Alibaba’s youngest P10 executive, posted on X at midnight Beijing time on March 4: “me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen.”
Lin built Qwen from an obscure side project into the most downloaded open-source LLM series in the world. Over 700 million downloads on Hugging Face. Nearly 400 open-s…