# open source AI

Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 Appears in Hugging Face Transformers — A Quiet Move That Could Amplify China’s AI Reach

A pull request adding Qwen3.5 to the Hugging Face Transformers repository surfaced on February 9, signaling Alibaba’s latest model is being integrated into the world’s primary open‑source AI toolkit. Whether the change includes usable weights or only interface support, the move lowers barriers for developers, broadens the model’s reach, and raises questions about licensing, safety and geopolitics.