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Alibaba names senior AI researcher Dayiheng Liu as the head of its Qwen project, bringing clarity after multiple reorganization rounds earlier in 2026

Alibaba Group has appointed Dayiheng Liu, one of its senior AI researchers, as the head of its Qwen large language models …

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Alibaba names senior AI researcher Dayiheng Liu as the head of its Qwen project, bringing clarity after multiple reorganization rounds earlier in 2026

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