Qwen is never going to open source Qwen 3.7, aren't they?

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After firing Junyang Lin, Qwen has locked down its large models and is no longer releasing open source models, while other Chinese AI labs continue to open source their latest models. Rumors suggest the small model team is gone and Qwen 3.6/3.7 may be the last open source models.

Well, this was predictable. After Qwen fired Junyang Lin, the next models are no longer open source. Ignoring the small models for a minute, they’ve fully locked down all the big models. No Deepseek/GLM competitor. And all the rumors on chinese weibo now say that the small model Qwen team is gone, and that Qwen 3.6 (and maybe 3.7) was the last model Junyang Lin worked on. There's not going to be any open source small models from Qwen anymore. Labs that have released open source models more recently than Qwen: GLM-5.2, 2026-06-17 Kimi-K2.7-Code, 2026-06-12 MiniMax-M3, 2026-06-11 Step-3.7-Flash, 2026-05-29 MiMo-V2.5-Pro, 2026-04-27 DeepSeek-V4-Pro / V4-Flash, 2026-04-24 AKA as of now, Qwen is now the last major Chinese AI lab that hasn't released an open source model recently. Everyone else has released an open source model more recently than Qwen, and the 3.7 line remains fully closed source.
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