PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Anfeng Li

Anfeng Li is a researcher whose AI work spans large language models and model evaluation. In 2025, he coauthored the Qwen3 Technical Report, which describes dense and mixture-of-experts models, a unified thinking framework, support for 119 languages and dialects, and Apache 2.0 access. In 2026, he contributed to Qwen3.5-Omni and coauthored HLE-Verified, a systematic revision of Humanity's Last Exam with a transparent, component-wise protocol and a fine-grained error taxonomy. As of October 2026, he works on Alibaba's Qwen Team.

Now at
Alibaba
Works
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Citations
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h-index
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Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. May 2025

    The Qwen3 report

    He coauthors the Qwen3 Technical Report in 2025. It describes dense and mixture-of-experts models with parameter scales from 0.6 to 235 billion.

  2. May 2025

    Combining reasoning modes

    The 2025 Qwen3 model combines thinking and non-thinking modes in one framework.

  3. May 2025

    Expanding language coverage

    Its 2025 report expands support from 29 to 119 languages and dialects, and makes all Qwen3 models publicly accessible under Apache 2.0.

  4. February 2026

    Revising Humanity's Last Exam

    He coauthors HLE-Verified in 2026, a systematic revision of Humanity's Last Exam with a transparent, component-wise verification protocol and fine-grained error taxonomy.

  5. April 2026

    Contributing to Qwen3.5-Omni

    He contributes to the Qwen3.5-Omni Technical Report in 2026.

  6. As of October 2026

    On Alibaba's Qwen Team

    As of October 2026, he works on Alibaba's Qwen Team.

Most-cited works

  1. HLE-Verified: A Systematic Verification and Structured Revision of Humanity's Last Exam2026 · 0 citations

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Sources and credits

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  1. [2505.09388] Qwen3 Technical Report arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. GitHub - QwenLM/Qwen3: Qwen3 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud. · GitHub github.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. Paper page - Qwen3 Technical Report huggingface.co. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. [2602.13964] HLE-Verified: A Systematic Verification and Structured Revision of Humanity's Last Exam arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. HLE-Verified: A Systematic Verification and Structured Revision of Humanity’s Last Exam arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  6. Qwen3.5-Omni Technical Report arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.