Alibaba launched Qwen-Image and Qwen-Image-Edit on DashScope as qwen-image-2.0-pro. For routing teams, these introduce a non-DALL-E async job pattern and a new model namespace that standard OpenAI-compatible proxies may not handle correctly.
Alibaba Cloud's new Qwen-MT turbo model arrives via OpenAI-compatible endpoints, but its translation controls live inside extra_body — a pattern that breaks any middleware that strips non-standard fields. Here's what routing teams need to watch.
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen3.7-Max claims the top spot on Terminal Bench 2.0, outperforms Claude Opus 4.6 on GPQA Diamond, and completes a 35-hour autonomous agent task on novel hardware. Here's the operator angle for teams routing Qwen traffic.
Alibaba releases Qwen3Guard, an open-weight safety guardrail model with real-time streaming token-level detection. For teams routing across multiple AI providers, it offers a provider-agnostic safety layer you can deploy at the gateway level.
GSPO introduces sequence-level optimization for RL training, stabilizing MoE models and eliminating infrastructure-heavy Routing Replay workarounds.
