A friendly update from Alibaba’s AI team makes research feel less like work and more like publishing.
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If you’ve ever wished your research paper could just publish itself, you might want to check out what Alibaba’s Qwen Team is cooking. Their latest update to Qwen Chat’s Deep Research tool doesn’t just write up detailed reports—it now turns them into full-blown live web pages and podcasts with just a couple of clicks.
Yes, seriously.
Let’s break it down.
From Research to Web Page or Podcast… Instantly
The upgraded Deep Research feature—announced on October 21, 2025—lets you go from a structured research report to a visually polished website or an audio podcast in less time than it takes to re-format your footnotes.
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Here’s how it works:
- Start a research query inside Qwen Chat. You get conversational, step-by-step help, including clarifying questions.
- Qwen pulls data from around the web. It checks sources, analyzes numbers, and highlights conflicting info. It can even calculate CAGR and other stats for you.
- The results show up in a clean, PDF-style format you can review in the app.
- Click “Create” from the report pane and choose:
- “Web Dev” to generate a professional, live web page.
- “Podcast” to get a narrated, multi-speaker audio episode.
All of it runs on Qwen’s own open-source-based models: Qwen3-Coder (for code and layout), Qwen-Image (for graphics), and Qwen3-TTS (for text-to-speech voices). But the entire experience—from pulling data to publishing content—is managed and hosted by Qwen.
You don’t need to fiddle with servers or hosting. It just works.
Real Example? Sure.
In their demo, Qwen researched the U.S. SaaS market—pulling in multiple sources, flagging discrepancies in market size estimates ($206B vs. $253B), and even calculating the growth rate. It then created a web page with visual charts and let the user publish a podcast of the research, complete with host dialogue and banter—not just a dry read-through.
And yeah, it’s surprisingly slick.
One user even made a podcast on UFO sightings, where two AI-generated hosts chat about trends in unexplained aerial phenomena based on the report they just made. It’s… weirdly engaging.
Curious? You can check out those live web examples here (on authoritarian regimes) and here (on UFOs).
What Makes This Different?
Unlike tools like Google’s NotebookLM, which focus more on organizing your existing notes and references, Qwen Deep Research is about creating new content from scratch.
It’s less a digital binder, more a creative partner.
NotebookLM is great if you already have long documents and want to ask questions about them. Qwen, on the other hand, starts with a question and builds everything from the ground up—citing real sources and commenting on conflicting info as it goes.
With just one tool, you:
- Get a written report
- Turn it into a live web page (with original graphics)
- Create a podcast episode to go with it
All in a matter of clicks.
Some Quirks
A few things to know if you want to dive in:
- The podcast voices come from a fixed library: 17 hosts and 7 co-hosts. You can’t preview voices before choosing, and the tone is still a bit more robotic than the most natural voice tools out there.
- All the output seems to default to English, even though the models are technically multimodal.
- Web pages are hosted via public links, but podcasts must be downloaded—there’s no direct sharing link (yet).
Still, for researchers, analysts, educators, or content folks looking to publish fast and in multiple formats, that’s a pretty solid toolkit.
How to Try It
The Deep Research feature is now live inside the Qwen Chat app. You can test it out via this link, but keep in mind: pricing details for Qwen3-Max and premium options haven’t been shared yet.
The Bottom Line
This update turns Qwen Chat into an end-to-end content machine. From research to code to visuals and podcast-ready audio, it’s all baked into one workflow. You start with a question and end up with three polished pieces of content. No switching tools. No exporting files. Just publish and go.
It’s not perfect, but it’s definitely pointing toward a future where publishing research is less of a slog—and more of a creative process.
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Let’s see if Google answers back. But for now, Qwen just made research a whole lot easier to share.
Keywords: Qwen, AI research tool, publishing, Alibaba, Deep Research, Qwen Chat, website creation, podcast creation, AI technology
