Overview
- According to Aicpb.com, Qwen’s monthly active users rose 149% in November to 18.34 million, placing it 24th globally just two weeks after public beta.
- The app quickly entered the top three trending free downloads in Apple’s mainland China and Hong Kong App Stores.
- Qwen offers multimodal tools such as deep research, image generation, and slide creation powered by Alibaba’s Qwen family of foundational models.
- Qwen’s growth outpaced Chinese rivals as ByteDance’s Doubao grew 5.33% to 167.91 million MAUs and DeepSeek’s flagship app declined 3.72%, while ChatGPT led globally with 775.57 million MAUs.
- Alibaba expanded its AI ecosystem with new Quark AI glasses, and analyst commentary links the company’s AI and cloud progress to a stock gain of over 90% year to date.