ALIBABA UNVEILS QWEN 3, A FAMILY OF 'HYBRID' AI REASONING MODELS

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Alibaba has released Qwen 3, a family of AI models they claim can rival top models from Google and OpenAI. These open-licensed models feature advanced reasoning capabilities and a mixture of expert architecture. Supporting 119 languages and trained on 36 trillion tokens, Qwen-3-235B-A22B notably outperformed OpenAI's o3-mini in several benchmarks. It's not yet publicly available.