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Have Alibaba / Qwen begun quietly publishing Qwen4.0-Max related code via new GitHub accounts or T-head PRs?

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Verdict

A LocalLLaMA post points to <1-month-old GitHub accounts and a T-head/alibaba-oss PR titled for Qwen4.0-Max prefill heads; no official Qwen or Alibaba announcement was checked, so it remains unconfirmed.

Evidence timeline · 2 sources · newest first
  1. Unconfirmed

    analytics-zoo/vllm-xpu-kernels PR #22 (merged Oct 23) is titled to enable Qwen3.8-flash-next kernels and optimize qwen4-27b (dense TP2 FP8 / TP1–TP2 INT4 SYCL paths). No official Qwen4 release announcement was checked in this run.

    Source: GitHub (analytics-zoo/vllm-xpu-kernels PR #22)
  2. Unconfirmed

    An r/LocalLLaMA post says newly created GitHub accounts and an Alibaba OSS / T-head PR (feat(gdn): support Qwen4.0-Max prefill heads) look like early Qwen4 work. The poster flags the accounts as either trolls or secret Alibaba accounts; no official Alibaba/Qwen confirmation was checked in this run.

    Source: r/LocalLLaMA
Quick answers
Is Qwen4 out yet?
No. Alibaba has not announced it as of Oct 24.
When is Qwen4 expected?
No official release date as of Oct 24.
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