Update on the Qwen shakeup. Per 36Kr, Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu held an emergency all-hands with the Qwen team this afternoon. He told the team: “I should have known about this sooner.” Alibaba’s official framing: this is expansion, not contraction. But the meeting revealed real tensions. Qwen members openly challenged leadership on team restructuring, compute allocation, and model strategy. Alibaba Cloud’s CTO acknowledged a painful irony: external customers get smoother access to Alibaba’s compute than the internal team building its most important model.