Alibaba appoints Dayiheng Liu as head of Qwen LLM project
Alibaba has appointed senior AI researcher Dayiheng Liu as the head of its Qwen large language model project, succeeding Lin Junyang who stepped down in March 2026. Liu, a former Huawei 'genius youth' and core Qwen member, was listed as the project lead at the Alibaba Cloud Apsara Conference and delivered a keynote titled 'Qwen: Towards Real-World Intelligent Agents'.
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Juro Osawa / The Information : Sources: Alibaba names senior AI researcher Dayiheng Liu as the head of its Qwen project, bringing clarity after multiple reorganization rounds earlier in 2026 — Alibaba Group has appointed Dayiheng Liu, one of its senior AI researchers, as the head of its Qwen large language models …
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Qwen一号位定了！刘大一恒接棒 鹭羽 2026-09-23 15:27:49 来源： 量子位 与稚晖君同届天才少年 鹭羽 发自 凹非寺 量子位 | 公众号QbitAI 定了！ 林俊旸 离职半年，新任千问负责人终于就位—— 前华为天才少年 刘大一恒 。 阿里云栖大会已经在官网嘉宾一栏中，将他挂在了C位。 紧随蔡崇信、吴泳铭之后，title是： 阿里巴巴ATH事业群Token Foundry Qwen LLM项目负责人。 开幕式上，他也刚刚在吴泳铭主旨演讲之后，带来15分钟的主题演讲，标题是 「Qwen：迈向真实世界智能体」 。 重视程度不言而喻。。。 so为什么是他？ 这位新帅的来头，可能比外界预想的更有料。 前华为天才少年接棒 刘大一恒，四川自贡人，本硕博均就读于 四川大学计算机学院 。 师从吕建成教授，研究方向集中在自然语言生成与理解。 曾在ACL、ICML、NeurIPS、EMNLP、AAAI等顶会及其它期刊发表论文共计百余篇，谷歌学术引用超六万次，并以通讯作者身份获得了 NeurIPS 2025最佳论文奖 。 另一位通讯作者正是前任负责人 林俊旸 。 刘大一恒同时也是Qwen初期核心成员。 2021年加入达摩院后，负责Qwen项目最早期的 预训练 工作。 随后几年更是高产不断： 主导开发Qwen1至Qwen3.5系列语言模型及Qwen-Math系列，核心参与Qwen-Coder、VL、Omni等模型开发，累计参与300多款Qwen模型开源。 换句话说， Qwen从早期研发到持续迭代 ，整个发展过程他其实一直都在。 只不过这一次，他终于正式走向台前。 事实上，真正让刘大一恒首次进入公众视野的，还是2020年的一则重磅新闻—— 刘大一恒经过多轮选拔，成为西南地区首位入选 华为天才少年计划 第一档的学生，年薪高达200万元。 当年全国仅有5位学生入选第一档，刘大一恒便是其中之一。 值得一提的是，当年的“天才少年”名单中还有另一位后来广为人知的人物： 稚晖君 。 而此次参选，还是华为主动向刘大一恒递出的橄榄枝。 不过，当年他虽然拿到了华为的offer，最终却没有选择入职，而是在博士毕业后，以校招「阿里星」的身份直接加入了阿里。 林俊旸离职之后 刘大一恒接手Qwen，也并非一步登天。 今年3月，Qwen技术负责人林俊旸突然在社交平台宣布卸任，由时任阿里云CTO、通义实
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