Alibaba Group Holding on Tuesday unveiled the highly anticipated third generation of its open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model series, which promises faster processing and enhanced multilingual capabilities, intensifying competition in an already crowded Chinese market.

The Qwen3 family consists of eight models, ranging from 600 million parameters to 235 billion, with enhancements across all models, according to the Qwen team at Alibaba’s cloud computing unit. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.