Qwen's former lead on what hybrid thinking got wrong and why he backs agents
Junyang Lin, former technical lead of Alibaba's Qwen project who stepped down on March 3, 2026, now advocates for agent-based AI. In a talk titled 'Qwen: Towards a Generalist Model / Agent', he critiqued hybrid thinking and outlined the shift toward generalist agents.
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