Qwen 4 could arrive soon, an attendee's account says, but Alibaba has given no date
An attendee at Alibaba's Oct 29 Amsterdam event said Alibaba Cloud's CTO pointed to the following week, which ends Nov 8. Reports also describe a coming soon slide and Qwen 4 names in code changes. Alibaba's press release in September said only that Qwen 4 was in training, and a Nov 6 teaser reported by bloggers names no model. Whether the weights will be open is unknown. As of the morning of Nov 8, Pacific time, nothing had been released, and the week the attendee pointed to ends that day.
Why it matters: Qwen has been a leading source of open models, so both the timing and the license matter to people running models themselves.
Who is saying it: An attendee's post on X, repeated by blogs and Startup Fortune. We have not seen a recording or an official statement.
How it turned out: The week the attendee pointed to ended Nov 8 with no Qwen 4 release. Alibaba still gives no date.
Our Hugging Face checks on Nov 7, twice on Nov 8 and on Nov 9, 2026 showed no Qwen 4 model. The newest Qwen upload there was from Oct 9.