It looks like a marketing move. It's a good quality, detailed picture. It's going to get shared a lot. I would assume they knew exactly what they were doing. Nothing like a bit of controversy for extra clicks.

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brookst 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Because every ML researcher is a viral social media expert.

(I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic)

	▲	viraptor 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is not some random ML researcher doing fun things at home. Qwen is backed by Alibaba cloud. They likely have whole departments of marketing people available.