The AI race is heating up, and a new contender has entered the arena with a bang! Alibaba’s Qwen, their new AI assistant app, has already stormed past 10 million downloads in its first week. Could this be the AI powerhouse that challenges the likes of ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini? Let’s dive in!
## Qwen: The AI Assistant Making Waves
Qwen represents Alibaba’s bold step into the consumer AI market, aiming to transform their advanced AI model capabilities into tangible, real-world applications. This impressive initial performance reportedly outpaces the early adoption rates of both ChatGPT and DeepSeek, setting a high bar for the competition. Alibaba Cloud powers Qwen with its open-source AI model family, also named Qwen. The app is designed as a versatile assistant, ready to tackle both personal and professional tasks.
What can Qwen actually *do*? According to Alibaba, it’s capable of in-depth research, image generation, and even creating presentation slides. Available on both iOS and Android, Qwen is shaping up to be a comprehensive AI tool readily available at your fingertips.
## Alibaba’s Grand Vision: An ‘Everything App’
Alibaba isn’t stopping at just an AI assistant. Their ambition is to create a global ‘everything app’ through Qwen. Imagine seamless integration of maps, food delivery, travel bookings, office productivity tools, e-commerce, education, and even health services, all within a single application. This all-encompassing approach aims to provide users with a convenient and integrated digital experience.
## Qwen3-Max: Outperforming the Giants in Crypto Trading?
Adding another feather to its cap, Alibaba’s advanced AI model, Qwen3-Max, recently outperformed several major global AI systems in a live cryptocurrency trading experiment. In the “Alpha Arena” competition, Qwen3-Max achieved a 22.32% return on investment in just two weeks, surpassing models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Elon Musk’s xAI. While the experiment’s organizers caution that early results may be due to luck, this surprising victory certainly highlights Qwen’s potential and makes it a name to watch in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.




