According to Casey Lau, some US tech companies such as Airbnb are relying heavily on Chinese open source AI models and he specifically referenced Qwen in a post on X on December 3, 2025, source Casey Lau on X. According to Alibaba Cloud, Qwen is an open source large language model family with commercially usable weights that are publicly available to developers, source Alibaba Cloud Qwen documentation. For crypto market positioning, the AI and Big Data token category is tracked for sector performance by CoinMarketCap, providing a sector level gauge to watch alongside AI exposed equities when enterprise AI adoption headlines circulate, source CoinMarketCap category data.