Binyuan Hui
Initiator of OpenDevin (now OpenHands); StarCoder2 co-author and first author of the Qwen2.5-Coder report
Binyuan Hui works on autonomous coding models and coding agents. Hui's homepage describes Hui as the initiator of OpenDevin, the open platform for AI software-development agents now called OpenHands, and Hui is a co-author of the OpenHands paper (2024). After joining the BigCode collaboration in 2023, Hui co-authored "StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2" (2024). Hui was a staff research scientist on Alibaba's Qwen team, is first author of the Qwen2.5-Coder Technical Report and a co-author of the Qwen and Qwen3 technical reports; Hui's GitHub profile now lists the Qwen role as a former one.1236789
Work
OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin)Open-source code
Described on Hui's homepage as the initiator of OpenDevin, and a co-author of "OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents" (2024), which introduces OpenHands (f.k.a. OpenDevin) and notes its release under the MIT license. The repository's commit history lists commits by Hui's account from March to May 2024, including support for the BIRD benchmark and early front-end and repository fixes, and Hui's GitHub profile pins the OpenHands repository.13452
StarCoder2Open weights
Co-author of "StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation" (2024) from the BigCode project, which introduces the StarCoder2 family of code models and makes the weights available under an OpenRAIL license.61
Qwen2.5-Coder (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
First author of the Qwen2.5-Coder Technical Report (2024); also a co-author of the Qwen Technical Report (2023) and the Qwen3 Technical Report (2025).789
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