QWEN

Alibaba's flagship open-weight coding model. 480B total parameters, 35B active (MoE). Native 256K context, scales to 1M. Apache 2.0 license. State-of-the-art agentic coding.

Alibaba's newest Qwen release claims flagship-level coding in a 27B dense model. Here is why dense matters, where it fits against the 480B MoE coder, and what it unlocks for local inference.

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen 3 Coder, a 480-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that sets a new bar for open-source coding assistants. With 35 billion active parameters and support ...

Alibaba released Qwen 3 with eight models under an Apache 2 license, including a 235B mixture-of-experts flagship that beats Llama 4 Maverick on nearly every benchmark while being smaller and cheaper to run.