Alibabas Qwen3-Coder: A Groundbreaking Open-Source AI That Outshines the Competition

Alibaba has introduced what it claims to be «the most advanced AI programming tool» — the open-source AI model Qwen3-Coder.

This neural network is designed to tackle programming-related tasks. It is capable of writing code and managing complex workflows, showing advancements in various areas.

The company markets the product as being «particularly strong» in agent-based AI tasks, where artificial intelligence can operate independently without human intervention.

According to the data presented, Qwen3-Coder has outperformed its Chinese competitors, including models from DeepSeek and Moonshot AI’s K2, in several metrics. For instance, it scored 70.3 points in the American Mathematics Olympiad, while DeepSeek-V3-0324 only managed 46.6 points.

In the MultiPL-E programming test, the language model achieved a score of 87.9, compared to DeepSeek’s 82.2.

In some areas, this neural network is on par with leading American models like Claude from Anthropic and GPT-4 from OpenAI.

The Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507-FP8 is an upgrade from the previous version Qwen3-235B-A22B-FP8, but it operates in a non-reasoning mode, providing results without step-by-step logical breakdowns. This enhancement allows the maximum length of processed content to increase eightfold, reaching 256,000 tokens, which enables it to handle significantly larger texts within a single dialogue.

It is worth noting that in May, Alibaba announced a breakthrough in reducing training costs for search-oriented AI models by 88%.