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Qwen
Qwen Chat is Alibaba's free AI assistant for chat, research, coding, images, documents and voice calls, built on its Qwen models.
Qwen Chat is the official assistant for Alibaba's Qwen family of language models, giving everyday users and developers one place to use both open-weight and proprietary versions. It handles chat, image and video understanding, image generation and editing, document processing, tool use, artifacts, and voice and video chat. Deep research can produce full reports, and the assistant can turn them into slide presentations. Recent models include the open-weight Qwen3.5, released in February 2026, and the larger proprietary Qwen Max models with a visible thinking mode. Qwen Chat is free to use, and the same models are available to developers through Alibaba Cloud.
Qwen at a glance
- Best for: Software engineer, Researcher, Student, Writer
- Runs on: Web, iOS, Android
- Pricing: Free
- Released: January 2025
- Category: AI chat assistant
- Website: chat.qwen.ai
Key features
- Free chat with open and proprietary Qwen models
- Image and video understanding
- Image generation and editing
- Document processing and artifacts
- Deep research reports and slide creation
- Voice and video chat
Use it for
- Compare open-weight Qwen models before self-hosting
- Research a topic and turn it into slides
- Edit or generate images from a prompt
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