(Bloomberg) – Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Got the wraps of a new version of his flagship Qwen AI model, whereby the breaking pace of the development is maintained that has characterized the artificial intelligence of China in the afterpath of Deepseek.
Alibaba unveiled his QWEN3 series models on Tuesday, of which it said that the performance of Deepseek on various fronts are rivals, including mathematics and coding. Qwen3 also considerably reduces the implementation costs compared to other important models, the company said.
The QWEN3 series includes two so-called mixture of experts (tired) models that try to match hybrid reasoning systems The way in which people think after problems Thinking-onangs introduced by Anthropic and Alphabet Inc.'s Google. Deepseek and other developers have also used the tired technique, which divides tasks into smaller sets of data, such as having a team of specialists who each concentrate on a segment of a job, making the process more efficient.
Because Deepseek Openai canceled with a powerful model, it said it only took a few million dollars to build, the technical leaders of China flooded the market with a rapid succession of cheap AI services. Alibaba-Die in 2025 all-in on the AI race declared a few weeks ago with a new model in its QWEN 2.5 series that can process text, photos, audio and video and is efficient enough to walk directly on telephones and laptops. It revealed a new version of his AI Assistant Quark app in March.
OpenAi, Google and Anthropic have released a flurry of models in the same way in recent months. OpenAi recently said that it is also planning to release a more “open” model that mimics human reasoning in the coming months, a shift in strategy after Deepseek and Alibaba open-source AI systems have pushed. Alibaba said on Tuesday that all Qwen3 models are open source.
Alibaba is building its AI efforts around QWen. In February Chief Executive Officer Eddie Wu said that the 'primary objective' of the company was now artificial general intelligence, a somewhat blurry goal in the industry to build AI systems with intellectual capacities at human level.
That shift helped to restore the company of years of unrest after co-founder Jack Ma clashed with the country's communist party about the regulation of the private sector. Ma, who had been the most profitable manager of China, mostly disappeared from the audience in the coming years.
In February Ma joined other prominent entrepreneurs in a controversial meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to talk through new technologies and innovations. The meeting marked the support of Beijing for a long-marginalized private sector considered the key to reviving the world's number 2 economics.
-With help from Claire Che.
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