news / Friday, 18 September 2026 / story 08 of 12

Qwen previews its next architecture and a model for self-driving

Alongside the Max-class announcement, Alibaba's Qwen team listed an early look at Qwen4 and a vision-language model for autonomous driving.

Alongside Qwen 3.8-Max, Alibaba's Qwen team listed two more releases: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, and Qwen-Drive-1.0, a vision-language foundation model built for autonomous driving.

It's a sign of how wide the Qwen family now reaches, from chat models to cars.

sources
  1. Qwen: Researchqwen.ai

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