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Alibaba's Qwen posts "The becoming begins" teaser, fueling Qwen4 talk

The poster names no model, date or benchmarks. Alibaba has not announced a Qwen4 launch.

Leaked on 06 November 2026

Screenshot of @testingcatalog's X post: ALIBABA 馃敟: "The becoming begins" teaser has been posted on the Qwen X account. We expect Qwen4-Max, Qwen4-Flash, Qwen4-Plus, and Qwen4-27B m
@testingcatalog's post on X, with counts as of 09 Nov 2026 12:49 UTC. Live post on X

Alibaba's Qwen team posted a poster on November 6 with three English words, "The becoming begins," and a classical Chinese line that stops short of its final character, Asia Times reported. The missing character points to Kun, the giant fish in Zhuangzi that transforms into the Peng bird.

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The teaser is widely read as a hint at Qwen4, the next generation of Alibaba's open-weight model family. Pasquale Pillitteri's write-up notes that Alibaba gave no model name, release date or benchmarks.

Alibaba has not named or shipped a Qwen4 model.

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