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Junyang Lin, a central technical leader on Alibaba Group’s Qwen AI team, has announced he is “stepping down” from the project just a day after the launch of Qwen 3.5 small models. Lin joined Alibaba in 2019 and became part of the Qwen team in April 2023.

Junyang Lin, a central technical leader on Alibaba Group’s Qwen AI team, has announced he is “stepping down” from the project just a day after the launch of Qwen 3.5 small models. Lin joined Alibaba in 2019 and became part of the Qwen team in April 2023. LinkedIn

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