Alibaba launches Qwen3-Coder, its latest AI-coding model
The Qwen3-Coder is a 480B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model. It can natively support 256,000 contexts and scales to 1 million contexts with the help of extrapolation.
The launch by Alibaba came at a time when the competition is intensifying among the Chinese technology companies in the race for AI supremacy. Alibaba emphasized the 'agentic AI coding tasks' for automating processes where AI systems can easily tackle programming challenges.
Qwen3-Coder outperformed multiple releases in performing tasks, including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI's K2, as per the data released by Alibaba. The company is looking to release more model sizes of Qwen3-Coder for strong performance and best results.
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