Alibaba’s Qwen Technology Lead Sets Up In-House Robot AI Team

Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. has established an in-house team for robotics, joining major global firms in a race to build AI-powered physical products.

The Chinese e-commerce firm has created a “small team for robotics and embodied AI,” Alibaba executive Justin Lin said in a post on X on Wednesday.

The team is housed within Qwen, the unit that is responsible for the eponymous flagship AI foundational model the Hangzhou-based company offers, according to Lin. The executive currently serves as technology lead at Qwen and helped develop multimodal models that can process sounds and images in addition to text input.

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