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Alibaba’s Qwen3 open-weight “hybrid” AI models debut in 0.6B-235B parameters
Bay Area Times
April 29, 2025
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1. Alibaba’s Qwen3 open-weight “hybrid” AI models debut in 0.6B-235B parameters
Qwen3-235B-A22B, the flagship model, is competing with DeepSeek R1, Grok 3, and OpenAI’s o3-mini on key benchmarks, per Qwen:
2 MoE and 6 dense models in total in the Qwen3 family.
The models can “reason” through complex problems or quickly answer simple requests.
Support 119 languages and trained on a dataset of ~36T tokens.
Qwen3 models are lagging behind OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini on early AIME benchmarks
Post-trained Qwen3 models are available through Hugging Face and ModelScope.
Code is accessible via GitHub.
Like other Chinese models, the Qwen3 family is censoring content critical of the Chinese government
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