Miju LabsWhy they are on the map
Author on Qwen3-VL-Seg (May 2026) and Qwen3-VL-Embedding (Jan 2026) source — evidence dated 2026-05
Needs the data for a model; writes the spec.
How Qwen (Alibaba Tongyi Lab) buys data
Qwen-Image-2.0-RL technical report (Jun 2026) applies RL to image generation — implies large-scale image preference/reward data; sourcing not disclosed. Leadership churn in 2026 (tech lead, post-training head and coding lead left).
Part of Tongyi Lab under Alibaba Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren. After Lin Junyang (tech lead), Yu Bowen (post-training head) and Hui Binyuan (coding lead) left in early 2026, ex-DeepMind Zhou Hao leads post-training RL. Qwen-Image and Qwen-VL are separate sub-teams.
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