Alibaba's cloud division providing the Qwen (通义千问) LLM family via the DashScope Model Studio API.
What They Do
Alibaba Cloud's AI effort centres on the Qwen (通义千问) series — a family of text, visual (Qwen-VL), audio (Qwen-Audio), and code models. The DashScope / Bailian API provides OpenAI-compatible access at competitive pricing.
Mission
Provide AI infrastructure and world-class models that power global digital transformation.
FAQ
Qwen is the model family; DashScope (now rebranded as Alibaba Model Studio / Bailian) is the API service that hosts and serves the models.