Alibaba’s new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 beats Kimi-2 and offers low compute version

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made waves globally in the tech and business communities with its own family of “Qwen” generative AI large language models, beginning with the launch of the original Tongyi Qianwen LLM chatbot in April 2023 through the release of Qwen 3 in April 2025.

Why?

Well, not only are its models powerful and score high on third-party benchmark tests at completing math, science, reasoning, and writing tasks, but for the most part, they’ve been released under permissive open source licensing terms, allowing organizations and enterprises to download them, customize them, run them, and generally use them for all variety of purposes, even commercial. Think of them as an alternative to DeepSeek.

This week, Alibaba’s “Qwen Team,” as its AI division is known, released the latest updates to its Qwen family, and they’re already attracting attention once more from AI ...