According to 1M AI News, Lin Jinyang, technical lead of Alibaba’s Qwen team, officially resigned from Alibaba on the afternoon of March 3. On the early morning of March 4, he posted on X: “me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen.” On the same day, Qwen team member Kaixin Li also announced her departure. Tang Jie, CEO of Zhipu AI, promptly responded on X: to Lin Jinyang, “cool. start a new journey”; to Kaixin Li, “join us, more focus,” publicly signaling recruitment interest.
On the same day, Yu Bowen, head of Qwen’s post-training, also departed; his role has been taken over by Zhou Hao, a former senior research scientist at DeepMind who joined Tongyi Lab earlier this year. Hui Bin yuan, head of Qwen Code, left in January to join Meta. According to Wan Dian, Lin Junyang’s departure is related to organizational changes within the Qwen team: Tongyi Lab plans to restructure Qwen from a vertically integrated system into horizontally divided teams focused on pre-training, post-training, text, multimodal, and other areas. As a result, Lin Junyang’s managerial scope was reduced, and the restructuring direction conflicted with his belief that teams should remain more closely integrated. Some senior executives within Alibaba expressed dissatisfaction with Qwen-3.5, released on Chinese New Year’s Eve, calling it a “half-finished product.” Born in 1993, Lin Junyang joined Alibaba’s Damo Academy in 2019 after earning his master’s degree from Peking University and became Alibaba’s youngest P10 in 2025.
Qwen team members resign as Alibaba restructures, Zhipu AI CEO courts departing talent
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On-chain data reveals shifting talent dynamics as Alibaba’s Qwen team undergoes internal changes. Multiple core members, including technical lead Junyang Lin, have resigned. Lin announced his departure on March 3, writing, “me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen.” Kaixin Li and Bowen Yu also left, with Yu’s role assumed by Haohao Zhou, a former DeepMind researcher. Zhipu AI CEO Tang Jie publicly sought to recruit the departing staff. Lin’s exit is linked to Tongyi Lab’s restructuring, which plans to divide Qwen into specialized teams. Some executives reportedly criticized the Qwen-3.5 release as a “half-finished product.” On-chain analysis suggests ongoing uncertainty in the AI and crypto sectors.
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