Junyang Lin was the technical lead of Alibaba’s Qwen project. He announced he was stepping down on March 3, 2026 . He now lists himself as an independent researcher on his personal site. In a talk titled ‘ Qwen: Towards a Generalist Model / Agent, ‘ he walks through the Qwen family. It ends on a single line: “Training models -> training agents.” He later expanded that line into an detailed post as an independent researcher. This article reads the talk and the detailed post together. What Lin’s T