Alibaba

Alibaba Group is a Chinese multinational technology company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Originally built around e-commerce and cloud computing, Alibaba has become one of the most prolific contributors to open-weight AI research, developing the Qwen family of large language models and the Wan series of generative media models.

Alibaba's catalog on Venice is one of the broadest from any single provider, spanning 34 models across text, image, video, text-to-speech, and inpainting. Flagship text models include Qwen 3 Coder 480B for code-focused tasks, Qwen 3 235B A22B in both instruct and thinking variants, and the latest Qwen 3.5 397B. Lighter options like Qwen 3.5 9B and Qwen 2.5 7B serve efficiency-sensitive use cases. Vision-language models such as Qwen3 VL 235B add multimodal understanding. On the generative media side, the Wan video lineup ranges from Wan 2.1 Pro through Wan 2.7, while Qwen Image 2 Pro and Wan 2.7 Pro handle image generation. Two Qwen 3 TTS models round out the offering.

Alibaba's strategy of releasing large, capable models under open-weight licenses has made Qwen a go-to alternative to proprietary frontier models, particularly for multilingual and code-generation workloads.