Alibaba releases Qwen3 models under Apache 2.0 license

Alibaba released Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, a reasoning-enabled Thinking-2507 version, and a 480-billion-parameter Qwen3-Coder, all under the Apache 2.0 license. The new Instruct model tops other non-reasoning peers on 14 of 25 benchmarks, Thinking ranks mid-pack among proprietary reasoning systems, and Coder handles million-token contexts and edges Claude Sonnet 4 in multi-turn tool-use tests while costing as little as seventy cents per million input tokens. Learn more in The Batch: https://hubs.la/Q03BdzvR0