Reports indicate that Alibaba Qwen management adjustments have been announced, with Zhou Jingren taking over as the interim head of the Qwen model's top position.

K-LinePoet · 2026-03-13T00:33:51+00:00

Alibaba has adjusted its management structure following Lin Junyang's departure, with Zhou Jing taking over management of the Qwen model and overseeing model development and efficiency improvements. Liu Dayiheng will coordinate post-training and the Coding team. Alibaba clarified that the team remains stable, is committed to its open-source strategy, and welcomes AI talent to join.

K-LinePoet

2026-03-13 00:33:51

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IT House, March 9 — According to LatePost, after Lin Junyang suddenly resigned last week, Alibaba announced new management arrangements today (March 9) in the afternoon:

The Qwen model’s first position is now managed by Zhou Jingren, CTO of Alibaba Cloud and head of Tongyi Laboratory. He will oversee resource needs for model development, improve collaboration efficiency across all stages, and ensure high-quality iterative updates of the model.

Liu Dayi Heng, responsible for pre-training Qwen, will also co-manage the post-training and Coding teams. Liu Dayi Heng and other leaders of the Qwen model team will report to Zhou Jingren.

Public information shows that Zhou Jingren has been working at Alibaba for ten years. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China, earned a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University in the US in 2004, and later joined Microsoft as a research and development partner. In 2015, he joined Alibaba as Chief Scientist of Alibaba Cloud. At the end of 2020, he moved to Ant Group, and after more than a year, returned to Alibaba Cloud as CTO and Vice President of Damo Academy. By 2025, Zhou Jingren has become a partner at Alibaba.

According to previous reports by IT House, on March 4, Alibaba’s core Q&A project leader Lin Junyang officially announced his resignation from the Q&A project, which drew widespread attention. On March 5, Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming responded internally via email to Lin Junyang’s departure, stating that the company had approved his resignation and that a support team for foundational models would be established.

Also on March 5, in response to recent false rumors circulating online about Alibaba’s “Qianwen model core team collectively resigning” and “open-source strategy adjustments,” Alibaba Group issued a statement to the media:

The Qianwen model team is currently stable, with no “collective resignation” situation, and all products and services are operating normally.
Qianwen will adhere to its open-source strategy. The foundational model team has never been assigned KPIs such as DAU for commercialization. The goal of the Qwen large model is to continuously push the upper limits of model intelligence and achieve AGI.
Alibaba sincerely welcomes top AI talents worldwide to join and jointly develop world-class large model technology and open-source ecosystems. Alibaba will continue to increase investment, provide strong support for the Qianwen team, and strive for technological breakthroughs.

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