Tongyi Lab
Coverage of Tongyi Lab in the Nexus archive.
- Alibaba eyes physical world with its first suite of AI models for robots
Alibaba Group Holding has launched its first suite of artificial intelligence models for robots, joining a global race to move AI into the physical world. The company introduced the Qwen Robot Suite, developed by Tongyi Lab, as part of its 'embodied AI' initiative.
- Alibaba AI voice model cracks top 5 globally, outperforming US rivals in regional accents
Alibaba's AI voice model, Fun-Realtime-TTS-Preview, ranked fifth globally on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena leaderboard, outperforming US rivals like OpenAI and xAI in handling complex Chinese dialects and accents. It is the only Chinese-engineered voice system in the top five.
- Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Lab has released Qwen3.6-27B, a 27 billion parameter dense model focused on flagship-level coding capabilities. The model is part of the Qwen series and is highlighted as a dense architecture alternative to Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, with the article published on Qwen's official blog and discussed on Hacker News.