#Qwen
5 published articles
Perplexity Decisions API and pplx-decider-v1-27b: $0.04 per million input tokens, Apache 2.0 weights
The hosted API answers noul, choice and score questions against text, JSON or images. Docs list a 262,144 token input limit and 10 requests per second per organization.
Cloudflare Clef and Clef-flash: Apache 2.0 multimodal decision models on Workers AI, with a 64k context window
The 27B and 9B models return probabilities for typed questions in one pass. Cloudflare prices Clef at $0.24 per million input tokens and says median latency is 209 ms.
Qwen-Image-2.1 moves Alibaba's image model line to a non-commercial research licence
The 20 Sep release adds RGBA output and 10-image editing. Earlier Qwen-Image models used Apache 2.0, and commercial use of 2.1 now needs a separate licence.
Antiy CERT finds one 71-file attack toolkit pushed to the official Qwen3.8-27B and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash repos on Hugging Face
An account called ChaosGPT uploaded an Italian offensive agent toolchain to both repositories on 16 Sep. The Qwen pull request is deleted. The DeepSeek pull request was still open at 16:01 SGT on 28 Sep.
Alibaba's 22 September claim that Qwen3.8-Max improved itself: the score gain checks out and the method is unpublished
Artificial Analysis confirms Qwen3.8-Max rose from 40 to 45 on its Intelligence Index. Alibaba has released no evidence that 33 automated cycles produced the gain.