Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen Large Model Officially Opened to the Public


According to the "Q2 2026 China Office Intelligent Agent Market Insight Report", Tencent WorkBuddy leads the PC-based AI-native office intelligent agent market. Its monthly visits reached 20.97 million in June, surpassing the combined total of the second and third places. The total market visits exceeded 60 million in the same month, indicating a continued expansion of the industry scale. CodeBuddy, Tencent's AI programming intelligent agent, also ranks among the top. WorkBuddy can complete office tasks through natural language commands.
China's LLM open-source pace quickens. Alibaba will soon release and open-source Qwen 3.8; its preview, Qwen3.8-Max, is live on Alibaba Cloud's Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork, letting users test its capabilities early. The official version follows, boosting Qwen family's open-source advancement.....
Alibaba confirmed that its self-developed large model, Tongyi Qianwen, has integrated with Apple Intelligence and will be fully deployed across China-region iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Vision Pro. Users can invoke it directly from iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS for deep image-text understanding and high-quality generation, eliminating tedious app switching.....
At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the National Development and Reform Commission introduced the global application progress of the "Mazu" meteorological warning large model. With its powerful data processing capabilities, the model has achieved technological breakthroughs in the field of meteorological warnings and has attracted significant attention.
Starting July 7, Anthropic will remove its top model Claude Fable5 from subscription tiers and switch to usage-based credits. Pro and Max users, who previously could use up to 50% of their weekly allowance on this model, will lose access. The move has sparked user backlash.....