Chinese tech company Alibaba released Qwen 3, a family of AI models that the company claims outperforms some of the best.

It reflects Qwen's current position as the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem, surpassing Meta Platforms' Llama community.

Qwen3 comes in two versions: a large LLM with the bulky name Qwen3-235B-A22B, which, according to Alibaba, should be able to keep up with models such as DeepSeek R1 o3-mini from OpenAI and Gemini 2.5 Pro in common benchmarks, and a small Qwen3-30B-A3B, which should nevertheless be extremely powerful.