AdvertisementHoi joined Alibaba in January as chief scientist of its Intelligent Information Platform, which oversees consumer-facing businesses including the group’s chatbot, UC Browser and Quark search engine. At the time, he was tasked with leading multimodal foundation model research, agent-related studies and applied AI solutions for consumer products, according to a report by Chinese media outlet Jiemian. Hoi’s transfer to Tongyi Lab reflects efforts at Alibaba Cloud , the AI and cloud computing services unit of Alibaba, to further develop the group’s core AI capabilities. Alibaba Cloud has released more than 300 open-source AI models, supporting over 170,000 derivatives, which has made its Qwen family of models the world’s largest open-source AI ecosystem, according to data announced last week at the company’s annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou , the capital of eastern Zhejiang province. The latest variant, Qwen3-Max , unveiled on Wednesday, features more than 1 trillion parameters.