Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen 3, a family of AI models the company claims matches and in some cases outperforms the best models available from Google and OpenAI. Most of the models are — or soon will be — available for download under an “open” license from AI dev platform Hugging Face

Yet another player is claiming the top spot for AI. Alibaba, one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies, has announced the launch of its latest AI reasoning model, known as Qwen 3. Alibaba claims these models match (and even outperform) models from both Google and OpenAI in reasoning tasks.