Alibaba · Eddie Wu · 2026-09-22
2026 Apsara Conference keynote: "Currently, Alibaba’s Qwen team is exploring RSI and has made meaningful progress."
“AI researchers have also mapped out a concrete path forward:Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI). By engaging with real-world tasks and feedback, models identify their own limitations. They autonomously design experiments, synthesize data, and evaluate outcomes, driving a continuous cycle of self-evolution. Currently, Alibaba’s Qwen team is exploring RSI and has made meaningful progress.”
- Who
- Alibaba, Eddie Wu
- Date
- 2026-09-22 Alibaba's post says the conference kicked off on Sept. 22, 2026; it does not give the keynote's own date.
- Evidence
- Not rated. A keynote statement. It gives no measured result for the Qwen team's RSI work. how we rate evidence
- Replication
- Nothing to rerun. all claims
- Checked
- 2026-10-29, against the source page
- Links
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Also on the page
- Eddie Wu is CEO of Alibaba Group. The first sentences of the quote describe what "AI researchers have also mapped out"; the claim about Qwen is the last sentence. The same passage says the Qwen team "plans to train a new model at the scale of 5 to 10 trillion-parameter".
- Alibaba also publishes the keynote in Chinese. There the Qwen sentence is more hedged: it says the team has made some progress, not meaningful progress.