Qwen4 Is Still in Training, and Still Unpriced
Alibaba has confirmed a status update, not a launch, a parameter count or a release date.
Alibaba’s only written statement on Qwen4 came at its Yunqi conference on 22 September 2026, describing the model as still in training; its official account posted a teaser image on 6 November with no specifications attached. The Max, Plus, Flash and 27B tiering that has circulated widely originates from conference slides and attendee accounts rather than a press release, and the three-trillion-parameter figure is industry speculation, not an official number. As of 6 November, no Qwen4 model had appeared on Hugging Face. One figure frequently misattributed: Alibaba has said Qwen4.5 and Qwen5 are planned to scale toward 5 to 10 trillion parameters, which is not a Qwen4 claim. The current Qwen3.8 Max stands at 2.4 trillion.