Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct launches and it ‘might be the best coding model yet’

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s “Qwen Team” has done it again.

Mere days after releasing for free and with open source licensing what is now the top performing non-reasoning large language model (LLM) in the world — full stop, even compared to proprietary AI models from well-funded U.S. labs such as Google and OpenAI — in the form of the lengthily named Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507, this group of AI researchers has come out with yet another blockbuster model.

That is Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, a new open-source LLM focused on assisting with software development. It is designed to handle complex, multi-step coding workflows and can create full-fledged, functional applications in seconds or minutes.

The model is positioned to compete with proprietary offerings like Claude Sonnet-4 in agentic coding tasks and sets new benchmark scores among open models.

It is available on Hugging Face, GitHub, Qwen Chat, via Alibaba’s Qwen API ...