Alibaba Qwen Leader Exits, Strategy Steady

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• •Lin Junyang submitted his resignation on March 3, 2026, and announced it publicly on X with 'me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen,' triggering community reactions describing it as 'the end of an era.'[1][2][6]
• •This marks the third senior Qwen executive departure in 2026: Yu Bowen (post-training head) resigned March 2, and Hui Binyuan (Qwen Code head) left in January to join Meta.[2][4][6]
• •Qwen mobile app achieved 203 million monthly active users in February 2026, up from 31 million in January, boosted by Lunar New Year campaigns.[3][5]
• •Lin Junyang, born 1993 with a master's in linguistics from Peking University, joined Alibaba's DAMO Academy in 2019 and became its youngest P10-level tech lead last year.[2][7]

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