Alibaba (09988) denies rumors: The Qiwen model team has not experienced a collective resignation.

According to reports, Alibaba (09988) has denied rumors of the "collective departure of the core team of the Thousand Questions model" and "adjustments in open source strategy" that have been circulating on the internet. Alibaba Group clarified to the media: 1. The Thousand Questions model team is currently stable, and there has been no "collective departure" situation. All products and services are running normally. 2. The Thousand Questions model will continue to adhere to an open source strategy. The basic model team has never been set commercial KPIs such as DAU. The goal of the Qwen model is to continuously pursue the intelligence limit of the model and achieve AGI. 3. Alibaba sincerely welcomes top AI talents from around the world to join and collaborate in building a world-class large model technology and open source ecosystem. Alibaba will continue to increase investment to provide solid support for the Thousand Questions team and strive for technological excellence. It is reported that on the morning of March 5th, Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming responded to the departure of Lin Junyang in an internal email, stating that the company has approved Lin Junyang's resignation and thanked him for his past contributions in his position. On March 4th, Lin Junyang posted on his WeChat moments saying, "Sorry friends, I will not be responding to messages and calls today, I really need some rest. qwen (Thousand Questions) brothers, continue working as planned, no problem." It is worth noting that apart from Lin Junyang, the head of training for Thousand Questions, Yu Bowen, also announced his resignation on the same day.