On the morning of November 3, the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit opened. Joseph Tsai, co-founder and chairman of Alibaba Group, said in his opening ceremony remarks that AI can only become truly accessible through open source and openness. He noted that Chinese open-source models deliver strong overall performance and high inference efficiency, and maintain leading positions in key indicators such as model downloads and the number of derivative models, making China a leader in global open-source intelligence. Alibaba's Qwen has open-sourced more than 470 models, with global cumulative downloads exceeding 4 billion and more than 330,000 derivative models, ranking first in the world.
