Alibaba denies that the large model team has collectively resigned: the team is stable, and services are running as usual.

In response to recent rumors circulating on the internet about Alibaba's "Core team of Thousand Whys model collectively resigning" and "adjustment of open source strategy," Alibaba Group stated that the Thousand Whys model team is currently stable, and there has been no "collective resignation." All products and services are operating normally. Thousand Whys will continue to adhere to an open source strategy. The core model team has never been set with commercial KPIs such as DAU, and the goal of the Qwen big model is to continuously pursue the intelligence limit of the model and achieve AGI. Alibaba sincerely welcomes top AI talents from around the world to join hands in building a world-class big model technology and open source ecosystem. Alibaba will continue to increase investment and provide solid support for the Thousand Whys team.