
Qwen3.5: A Leading Small AI Model, and the Team That Just Left
On March 4, 2026, at 12:11 a.m., Lin Junyang posted four words: 'me stepping down. bye my beloved qwen.' By 4 a.m., 5,000 people had liked it. This is the story of what he built, why he left, and what it means for the open-source AI world.

