Alibaba launches open source Qwen3 model that surpasses OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1
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Summary
Alibaba’s Qwen team has launched its series of open-source AI large language multimodal models, known as Qwen3.
These can be accessed and deployed across platforms including Hugging Face, ModelScope, Kaggle and GitHub, as well as Qwen’s own chat interface and mobile apps.
These models are trained to provide “hybrid reasoning” or “dynamic reasoning” capabilities, allowing for more time-consuming and compute-intensive responses in specialised fields, which can be toggled on and off as required.
Qwen3 includes both Meld of Experts (MoE) and dense models, all covered by Apache 2.0 open-source license, and offer GPT-4-class reasoning at a similar GPU memory cost to a 20-30 billion dense model.
The models also significantly broaden multilingual support to 119 languages and dialects.