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Alibaba unveils Qwen3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning models


Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen 3, a family of AI models the company claims matches and in some cases outperforms the best models

The rise of China-originated model series like Qwen have increased the pressure on American labs such as OpenAI to deliver more capable AI technologies. They’ve also led policymakers to implement restrictions aimed at limiting the ability of Chinese AI companies to obtain the chipsnecessary to train models. Tuhin Srivastava, co-founder and CEO of AI cloud host Baseten, said that Qwen 3 is another point in the trend line of open models keeping pace with closed-source systems such as OpenAI’s.

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