Qwen Chat, originally known as Tongyi Qianwen, is a family of large language models designed for interactive conversational AI, developed by Alibaba Cloud and publicly launched in September 2023 after a beta in April 2023. It offers powerful capabilities including multilingual chat, coding assistance, advanced reasoning, and multimodal processing for both individual and enterprise applications.
Tool Details
Name Before Launch
Prior to its public debut, Qwen Chat was internally referred to as Tongyi Qianwen (“通义千问”).
Creator & Launch
Qwen Chat was developed by Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group. It entered a closed beta for enterprise users on April 7, 2023 and was opened to the public on September 13, 2023.
Major Uses
- Interactive conversational AI for customer service and virtual assistants 🤖
- Multilingual communication in English and Chinese languages 🌐
- Coding assistance and developer tool integration for code generation and debugging 💻
- Advanced reasoning for decision support and research queries 🧠
- Multimodal processing including image understanding and localization with Qwen-VL-Chat 📷
- Enterprise-scale deployments via Alibaba Cloud with API compatibility 👔
