Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Chinese e-commerce and web giant Alibaba’s Qwen team has officially launched a new series of open source AI large language multimodal models known as Qwen3 that appear to be among the state-of-the-art for open models, and approach performance of proprietary models from the likes of OpenAI and Google. The Qwen3 series features two “mixture-of-experts” models and six dense models for a total of eight (!) new models. The “mixture-of-experts” approach involves having several different specialty model types combined into one, with...