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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made waves globally in the tech and business communities with its own family of “Qwen” generative AI large language models, beginning with the launch of the original Tongyi Qianwen LLM chatbot in April 2023 through the release of Qwen 3 in April 2025.
Why?
Well, not only are its models powerful and score high on third-party benchmark tests at completing math, science, reasoning, and writing tasks, but for the most part, they’ve been released under permissive open source licensing terms, allowing organizations and enterprises to download them, customize them, run them, and generally use them for all variety of purposes, even commercial. Think of them as an alternative to DeepSeek.
This week, Alibaba’s “Qwen Team,” as its AI division is known, released the latest updates to its Qwen family, and they’re already attracting attention once more from AI power users in the West for their top performance, in one case, edging out even the new Kimi-2 model from rival Chinese AI startup Moonshot released in mid-July 2025.
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The new Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507-Instruct model — released on AI code sharing community Hugging Face alongside a “floating point 8” or FP8 version, which we’ll cover more in-depth below — improves from the original Qwen 3 on reasoning tasks, factual accuracy, and multilingual understanding. It also outperforms Claude Opus 4’s “non-thinking” version.
The new Qwen3 model update also delivers better coding results, alignment with user preferences, and long-context handling, according to its creators. But that’s not all…
Read on for what else it offers enterprise users and technical decision-makers.
FP8 version lets enterprises run Qwen 3 with far less memory and far less compute
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