Quen
Product#15 trending in AI & Tech this week · most on The 404 Media Podcast
Qwen is Alibaba’s family of large language models, including openly released models used for text generation, coding, and multimodal AI applications.
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0.2‰ of what listeners heard
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- Neutral 1
- Positive 2
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Mentions of Quen per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, ai & tech.
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| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 5 | 0.81‰ | 1 |
| Aug 10 | 0.49‰ | 1 |
| Sep 12 | 0.29‰ | 1 |
| Sep 26 | 0.23‰ | 1 |
| Oct 2 | 0.37‰ | 1 |
| Oct 3 | 0.38‰ | 1 |
| Oct 5 | 0.55‰ | 1 |
| Oct 7 | 0.76‰ | 1 |
Why is it trending?· Last 7 days
Quen appears in debates over open models, local AI, and cost
The 404 Media Podcast discussed Quen 3 as one of several local open-source models run in an AI torture-chamber project.[1]
On Sourcery, Jonathan Siddharth argued that improving open-weight models such as Quen are bringing enterprise-owned AI implementations closer to frontier systems.[2]
The a16z Show considered using an off-the-shelf Qwen model trained for a specific policy, with cost and safety offered as reasons.[3]
On TBPN, Sigil Wen said a 27B model post-trained on Quen scored better than a named earlier frontier model and could run quickly on existing devices, while Jordi Hays questioned its speed.[4]
Sources · 4 moments
- 1.The 404 Media Podcast · Leak Show Cops Can Break into Locked iPhonesSam Cole · Oct 7 · Listen at 17:49 ↗
“So it was the AI torture chamber. And it was basically a person running several local large language models. So they're running Quen 3, Llama, and Fi, which is basically like these three open source LLMs, Llamas, Metas, Quen is a Chinese on”
- 2.Sourcery · Frontier AI Is a Ferrari. Most Companies Need a Model Y | Turing CEOJonathan Siddharth · Oct 2 · Listen at 32:21 ↗
“And a big part of what's driving this is open weight models getting very good. Today, depending on who you talk to, like open weight models are maybe like 3 to 6 months behind the frontier. Kibbe K3, DeepSeek, Quen, these models are, and co”
- 3.The a16z Show · Beyond the God Model | Alex Atallah & Amjad MasadAmjad Massad · Oct 3 · Listen at 32:19 ↗
“It could be unstructured text generation. It could be decision models. Even the case of Jav, if you understand the inputs ahead of time, you could potentially take an off-the-shelf Qwen or something like that and train it specifically for t”
- 4.TBPN · AI Video Game Mods, Should You Sell Your Data, Bryan Johnson on Endurance Racing | Sean Frank, Linda Du, Ali Partovi, Sigil Wen, Jerry Wu, Bryan JohnsonSigil Wen · Oct 5 · Listen at 2:07:50 ↗
“basically the frontier models of today will run on your devices in 6 months. And we can see this quantitatively where Underdog-27B, which we post-trained and RL'd on top of Quen, Quen's 27B model. If you look at artificial analysis, uh, ana”
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