Alibaba's Qwen AI enters electric vehicles with BYD and SAIC Volkswagen, enables in-car voice bookings on Nvidia chips

Alibaba announced Qwen AI model integration into vehicles from BYD and SAIC Volkswagen (a Volkswagen joint venture), enabling in-car voice commands for services like food delivery, hotel bookings, and China Eastern Airlines flight reservations. Qwen will operate on Nvidia's automotive chip platform. Alibaba separately released Qwen3.6-27B, a dense 27B-parameter open-weight model that outperforms 397B MoE models on agentic coding benchmarks.