{"slug": "alibabas-qwen-releases-open-source-model-for-autonomous-driving", "title": "Alibaba’s Qwen releases open-source model for autonomous driving", "summary": "Alibaba's Qwen team, with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, released Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B, an open-source model for autonomous driving that integrates driving-scene understanding and motion planning. Built on Qwen3.5-4B, it adds 3D perception and trajectory generation components, with two planning variants, and is available under the Apache 2.0 license.", "body_md": "Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B, an open-source model that combines driving-scene understanding with planning a vehicle’s movements. Developed with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, it uses Qwen3.5-4B as its vision-language foundation and adds separate components for 3D perception and generating driving trajectories.\n\nThe release includes two versions of the planning component: one trained to imitate driving examples and another further optimized through reinforcement learning. Both use the same underlying vision-language model, which retains its original architecture and ability to answer visual questions. The project provides code, model weights and demo data under the Apache 2.0 license. [[Qwen](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Drive-1.0)]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-releases-open-source-model-for-autonomous-driving", "canonical_source": "https://technode.com/2026/09/07/qwen-drive-autonomous-driving/", "published_at": "2026-09-07 05:35:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 06:26:47.144359+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["autonomous-vehicles", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Alibaba", "Qwen", "Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B", "Huazhong University of Science and Technology", "Qwen3.5-4B"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-releases-open-source-model-for-autonomous-driving", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-releases-open-source-model-for-autonomous-driving.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-releases-open-source-model-for-autonomous-driving.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alibabas-qwen-releases-open-source-model-for-autonomous-driving.jsonld"}}