Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI model coming this month, sources say

Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI model coming this month, sources say

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing unit of the Hangzhou-based tech giant, plans to launch its Qwen3 LLM this month, according to people familiar with the matter. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.

The upgraded model is expected to come in multiple variants, including a standard version and a Qwen3-MoE, which uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, one person with knowledge of the plans said. The MoE design allows for cost-efficient training and deployment, a strategy that helped