Overview
- The consumer AI app entered public beta on November 17 and reached more than 10 million downloads within a week, according to the company.
- Alibaba says this pace outstripped early growth for ChatGPT, Sora and DeepSeek, calling Qianwen the fastest-growing AI application to date.
- A new web portal at qianwen.com now offers a browser-based experience that aligns with the mobile app.
- The web client exposes additional Qwen3 model options such as Qwen3-Max-Thinking-Preview and Qwen3-Coder, plus code and deep-research tools.
- Conversation grouping for managing chat histories has been added, and Alibaba describes the current release as an initial version with model upgrades planned.