# open-source AI

Alibaba’s Star AI Engineer Steps Down as Qwen Project Faces Leadership Gap

Lin Junyang, the technical head of Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen project and the company’s youngest P10 technical leader, announced his departure on March 4. Lin led Qwen’s rise as a prominent open-source LLM family, but Alibaba has not named a successor, leaving short-term uncertainty about leadership and the project’s future direction.