Alibaba Expands AI Capabilities with New Language and Multimodal Models

Alibaba is advancing its AI capabilities through significant innovations, according to ChainCatcher. The company has recently launched a series of new large language models and multimodal models, achieving notable progress in model intelligence. In March, Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Plus, which has shown substantial performance improvements, particularly in programming and intelligent programming, setting industry standards in front-end web development and complex warehouse-level tasks. Qwen3.6-Plus also features enhanced multimodal perception and reasoning abilities, with a native context window length supporting up to 1 million tokens, and improved stability and reliability. In addition to the Qwen model family, Alibaba is expanding its specialized model offerings. This includes the world model HappyOyster, which supports real-time creation and interaction, and the multimodal model HappyHorse for video generation, both currently in beta testing.