Alibaba has reiterated its intention to continue releasing Qwen and Wan large language models (LLM) in open source. The confirmation came via an announcement on the X (formerly Twitter) account of ModelScope, Alibaba's platform dedicated to open source AI.

This commitment underscores Alibaba's willingness to contribute to the open source community in the field of artificial intelligence, making its models available for research, development, and implementation by third parties. The strategy of releasing open source models enables greater transparency, collaboration, and innovation in the LLM sector.

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