Domestic large models are simultaneously performing a "race and excitement" in the global open-source community and the consumer market. On March 2, 2026, with Alibaba Cloud's intensive layout during the Spring Festival, the Qwen family officially established its dominant position in the global AI ecosystem.

This "Spring Festival offensive" is not only a technology output but also a milestone event of AI deeply integrating into national life.

Technical Dominance: Qwen 3.5 Tops Hugging Face

The "New Year's Eve gift package" from Alibaba in the open-source field still has a lasting impact, with multiple small and medium-sized models released, changing the global large model landscape:

  • Securing the Top Four Globally: On the authoritative AI community Hugging Face global open-source large model ranking list, the Qwen 3.5 series firmly occupied all four positions with outstanding reasoning, coding, and multimodal capabilities.

  • Explosion of Small and Medium-Sized Models: The Qwen 3.5-7B/14B models optimized for edge computing and terminal-side operations achieved performance indicators exceeding those of closed-source models with very few parameters, greatly reducing the innovation threshold for developers.

Market Explosiveness: DAU Surged by 940%, Ranking First Domestically

In the user market, the Qwen App achieved extraordinary growth thanks to the social and consumption scenarios during the Spring Festival holiday:

  • "One sentence order" becomes a hit: During the Spring Festival, the Qwen App processed nearly 200 million voice instructions, allowing users to complete complex operations such as hailing a car, ordering meals, and booking tickets with just one sentence, marking that AI intelligent agents (Agents) have officially entered the mass stage.

  • Leapfrog Growth in User Base: According to the latest data from QuestMobile, the daily active users (DAU) of Qwen reached 73.52 million during the Spring Festival, with an year-on-year growth rate of as high as 940%, which is leading among all domestic AI applications currently.

Industry Insights: From "Chatting" to "Getting Work Done"

Alibaba Cloud This dual victory reflects two core logics of the large model competition in 2026: mastering the underlying open-source ecosystem and penetrating the top application scenarios. Qwen 3.5 wins popularity in the geek community and proves its practical effectiveness through "one-sentence orders" in real commercial transactions, which means AI is no longer a toy in the laboratory but a new infrastructure truly changing the lifestyle of the nation.