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What’s Next for Qwen After Junyang Lin’s Departure?
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What’s Next for Qwen After Junyang Lin’s Departure?

Junyang Lin, the technical lead and public face of Alibaba's Qwen AI project, just announced that he's stepping down from the team on X, right after the release of the new Qwen 3.5 small models. Does this signal a shift in Qwen's research direction or openness? Is this just a leadership change or something deeper in Alibaba's AI strategy? What do y'all think the future of Qwen looks like now? submitted by /u/TutorLeading1526 [link] [comments]
Warning: Trae IDE’s New Token Pricing Destroyed My Workflow Overnight – Don’t Get Caught Off Guard
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Warning: Trae IDE’s New Token Pricing Destroyed My Workflow Overnight – Don’t Get Caught Off Guard

Hey everyone, I've been a Trae IDE user for over a year now, relying on it for custom agents, coding (PHP, Python, JS, etc.), and even casual sanity-keeping chats. The old Pro plan ($10/mo) gave me 600 fast requests + unlimited slow ones, which easily lasted me 3+ weeks of moderate use. It felt like good value for an AI-powered IDE. But after their February 2026 switch to token-based pricing, it's a nightmare. Yesterday, I spent the day trying (and failing) to hook up a local LLM (via LM Studio) to bypass cloud costs – something that used to be easier with providers like Ollama, but that's disappeared from the list. Ended up burning through $38 in one day on just 127 requests. That's twice my monthly $20 Basic allowance on a fraction of my old usage... For context: Many of those requests w...
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