Qwen-Audio
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Alibaba
- C · CEO & Politics
- Eddie Wu — Not publicly documented (PRC-based; operates under Chinese regulatory environment)
- D · Date
- 2023
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- China
- K · Key Staffers
- Jingren Zhou (CTO, Tongyi Lab)
- L · Languages
- Chinese-primary
- M · Model Type
- Audio LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- Synthetic audio risks: voice cloning or impersonation misuse, copyright/style imitation concerns, and possible unsafe or biased outputs depending on deployment safeguards.
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, Tongyi Qianwen license)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- Alibaba Cloud's Qwen-Audio, the audio-language model of the Qwen series, which takes diverse audio (human speech, natural sounds, music and songs) plus text as input and outputs text; a multi-task training framework covering more than 30 tasks gives it strong results without task-specific fine-tuning, including state-of-the-art scores on Aishell1, CochlScene, ClothoAQA and VocalSound, and the instruction-tuned Qwen-Audio-Chat adds multi-turn audio and text dialogue.
- S · Stock / Status
- $110 (BABA, Sep 25, 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @AlibabaGroup
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Audio LLM from Alibaba, released 2023.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“Qwen-Audio.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/qwen-audio.html
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