Alibaba Group Holding Limited launched its latest Qwen 3 series of large language models (LLMs) on Tuesday, showcasing major advances in performance, scalability, and efficiency.

The report outlines how the flagship model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, achieves competitive results in benchmark evaluations of coding, math, and general capabilities when compared to other top-tier models such as DeepSeek-R1, OpenAI's o1 and o3-mini, xAI's Grok-3, and Alphabet Inc.'s Gemini-2.5-Pro.

According to the company, Qwen 3 models introduce two problem-solving modes: Thinking and Non-Thinking, claiming that the approach "greatly enhances the model’s ability to implement stable and efficient thinking budget control."