Junyang Lin, a key technical leader on Alibaba's Qwen AI team, has stepped down just one day after the launch of the Qwen 3.5 Small Model series. His departure drew strong reactions from colleagues and industry partners who described him as central to the project's success. A Qwen team contributor's post on X suggested the
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