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QV88
QV 88 is an undecorated 18th Dynasty shaft-and-chamber tomb in the Valley of the Queens at Thebes, attributed by inscribed finds to a prince named Ahmose, son of Nebesu and Ian.
Qvantum
Qvantum is a Swedish heat-pump company headquartered in Åstorp, Sweden, that has developed heat pumps and energy systems since 1993 and is led by CEO Fredrik Rosenqvist.
QVC
QVC, short for Quality Value Convenience, is an American home shopping company founded by Joseph Segel in 1986 that sells products through TV channels, websites, and apps.
Qveen Herby
Qveen Herby is the rap and R&B alter ego of Amy Noonan, formerly of pop duo Karmin with husband Nick Noonan; rebranded in 2017 with 'Karmin Is Dead, Long Live the Qveen,' releasing EPs and projects independently.
QW-2 (前卫-2) (missile)
The QW-2 (前卫-2, export name Vanguard 2) is a Chinese third-generation, shoulder-launched, fire-and-forget surface-to-air missile developed by CASIC 119 Factory in Shenyang and revealed in 1998.
Qwant
Qwant, also known as Qwant.com, is a French web search engine launched in 2013 that does not build user profiles or sell personal data, positioning itself around privacy and European digital sovereignty.
QwaQwa
QwaQwa, also spelled Qwaqwa, was a bantustan, or homeland, created by apartheid South Africa for Sesotho speakers in the eastern Orange Free State, self-governing from 1974 until reincorporation in 1994.
Qwen (model family)
Qwen is a family of large language and multimodal models published by Alibaba Group's Qwen Team, first released in 2023 and distributed with open weights.
Qwen (通义千问)
Qwen (通义千问), also known as Tongyi Qianwen, is a family of large language models from Alibaba Cloud, first unveiled in 2023 and spanning dense, multimodal, and open-weight releases.
Qwen (通义千问) (assistant app)
Qwen (通义千问) is Alibaba's free AI assistant app, launched in public beta in China in November 2025 and built on the Qwen large language model family.
Qwen derivative ecosystem
The Qwen derivative ecosystem is the population of fine-tuned, quantized, merged, and distilled models built on Alibaba's open Qwen weights, the largest such base in the open-model world by 2026.
Qwen licensing shift
The Qwen licensing shift is Alibaba's move of its Qwen AI models from a restrictive custom license to Apache 2.0, beginning in 2024 and partially reversed in 2026.
Qwen-AgentWorld
Qwen-AgentWorld is a pair of open-weight language world models announced by Alibaba's Qwen team in June 2026, which predict how agentic environments respond to an agent's actions across seven domains.
Qwen-Audio
Qwen-Audio is an open-weight audio-language model line from Alibaba Cloud's Qwen series, first released in November 2023, trained on more than 30 tasks covering speech, sound, music, and song.
Qwen-Coder
Qwen-Coder is Alibaba's family of open-weight code-specialized language models, spanning CodeQwen1.5, Qwen2.5-Coder (2024), and the agentic Qwen3-Coder line launched in 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license.
Qwen-Image
Qwen-Image is a family of image generation and editing models from Alibaba's Qwen team, first released in August 2025, known for complex text rendering, especially Chinese, and precise image editing.
Qwen-Music
Qwen-Music is a music generation model family from Alibaba, introduced in July 2026, that generates complete songs from text prompts or by re-rendering reference audio in a new style.
Qwen-VL
Qwen-VL is a family of open-weight vision-language models developed by Alibaba's Qwen Team within the Tongyi Qianwen series, first released in August 2023 and spanning four generations through Qwen3-VL.
Qwen3
Qwen3 is a family of open-weight large language models released by Alibaba's Qwen team in April 2025, spanning eight checkpoints from 0.6B to a 235B-parameter flagship under Apache 2.0.
Qwen3-Coder
Qwen3-Coder is a family of open-weight, code-specialized large language models developed by Alibaba's Qwen team, released on July 23, 2025 and licensed under Apache 2.0.
Qwen3-Embedding
Qwen3-Embedding is a family of open-weight text embedding and reranking models released by Alibaba's Qwen team in June 2025, in 0.6B, 4B, and 8B sizes under the Apache 2.0 license.
Qwen3-TTS
Qwen3-TTS is a text-to-speech model family from Alibaba's Qwen team, released as a commercial API in September 2025 and as Apache 2.0 open-weight models in January 2026, trained on over 5 million hours of speech.
Qwen3.8-Max
Qwen3.8-Max is a large language model released by Alibaba on August 3, 2026, billed as the most powerful model in its Qwen series to date.
QWER (큐더블유이알)
QWER (큐더블유이알) is a four-member South Korean girl band, also called a growth-type girl band, formed in 2023 via Kim Gyeran's Favorite Children project; debuted October 18, 2023 with Harmony from Discord; members Chodan, Magenta, Hina, Siyeon.
QWERTY
QWERTY, also known as the QWERTY keyboard layout, is the standard keyboard layout, named for its top letter row and invented by Christopher Sholes in the 1870s.
QWERTZ
QWERTZ, the German and Central European keyboard layout, swaps Y and Z versus QWERTY and adds dedicated keys for ä, ö, ü, and ß; standardized as DIN 2137 since 1976, offered by Remington in Germany from 1896.
Qwest Communications
Qwest Communications was a Denver-based telecom company that built a nationwide fiber-optic network, acquired US West in 2000, and was absorbed by CenturyLink in 2011.
QwQ-32B
QwQ-32B is a 32-billion-parameter open-weight reasoning model released by Alibaba's Qwen team on March 6, 2025, trained with reinforcement learning to match DeepSeek-R1's math and coding performance at a fraction of the size.
QX027N, TSLP×IL-13 bispecific antibody
QX027N (WIN027), a long-acting anti-TSLP×IL-13 bispecific antibody by Qyuns Therapeutics (2509.HK), in Phase I/II for atopic dermatitis, asthma, COPD, and CRSwNP; ex-China rights licensed to Windward Bio's LE2025 for up to US$700 million plus royalties.
Qyuns TSLP/IL-33 bispecific antibody (licensed to Roche)
QX031N (RG6981) is Qyuns Therapeutics' long-acting bispecific antibody targeting TSLP and IL-33 for COPD and asthma, licensed globally to Roche in October 2025 for $75 million upfront plus up to $995 million in milestones; Phase I began in New Zealand in 2026.