Qwen

China’s agentic AI market is accelerating fast, and Alibaba’s Qwen is at the center of it — with 300 million monthly active users and growing compatibility with the OpenClaw ecosystem. Alibaba’s Dominant Position in Chinese Agentic AI According to analysis from China Briefing, an established B2B China market intelligence publication, Alibaba holds 35.8% of the Chinese agentic AI market as of early 2026. That’s the largest single share in a market that’s growing faster than most Western counterparts. ...

OpenClaw just shipped version 2026.3.28, and if you run agentic pipelines on this platform, you need to read the release notes carefully. This is one of the more architecturally significant updates in recent months — it introduces async human-in-the-loop (HITL) tool approvals, drops the Qwen portal auth integration entirely, and ships a handful of other meaningful improvements. Let’s unpack what changed and what it means for your deployments. Async Human-in-the-Loop: The Headline Feature The biggest change is the addition of requireApproval as an async hook in OpenClaw’s before_tool_call plugin system. In practical terms, this means plugins can now pause tool execution mid-flight and prompt the user for explicit approval before the tool actually runs. ...

Alibaba dropped Wukong on Tuesday — and China’s enterprise AI agent race just got a lot more interesting. Named after the Monkey King from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, Wukong is Alibaba’s entry into the enterprise AI agent arena. It’s a Qwen-powered platform that lets businesses manage multiple AI agents through a single interface, with what Alibaba calls “enterprise-grade security infrastructure.” And it arrives at a pivotal moment: the company is mid-reorganization, competition from Tencent and Zhipu AI is heating up, and the broader OpenClaw wave is reshaping how China’s tech giants think about autonomous software. ...

Alibaba Group is set to launch a new enterprise AI agent service powered by its flagship Qwen model this week, according to a Bloomberg exclusive published March 16, 2026. The announcement marks one of China’s most significant moves into enterprise agentic AI infrastructure — and positions Alibaba as a direct competitor to the Western enterprise agent platforms that have been dominating headlines. What Alibaba Is Building The service, developed under CEO Eddie Wu’s leadership through the newly formed Alibaba Token Hub business group, is built around Qwen — Alibaba’s most capable large language model — and integrates directly with Taobao, Alipay, and a range of enterprise cloud tools. ...

Something significant dropped in the open-source model space today: Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 Small series — a family of four on-device models ranging from 0.8B to 9B parameters — is now publicly available under the Apache 2.0 license. The headline claim from VentureBeat and confirmed by MarkTechPost: the 9B flagship outperforms OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120B on benchmarks, while running on a standard laptop. Let that land for a moment. A 9-billion-parameter model running on consumer hardware beats a 120-billion-parameter cloud model on capability benchmarks. If accurate — and the benchmark citations across multiple independent sources suggest it is — this is a meaningful moment for local and edge agentic deployments. ...