Alibaba restructures AI leadership with Qwen3.6-Plus topping leaderboards as 397B-parameter multimodal model

Alibaba Group formed a new AI-focused technology committee led by CEO Eddie Wu and appointed Li Feifei as Cloud CTO to sharpen AI strategy. The company launched Qwen3.6-Plus, which topped multiple AI leaderboards, following the February 2026 release of Qwen3.5—a 397-billion-parameter multimodal open-weight model with native agentic capabilities supporting over 200 languages.