Ahead of DeepSeek's R2 release, Alibaba announced its new Qwen3 AI model, as the Chinese companies fight for the best AI LLMs.

Yet another player is claiming the top spot for AI. Alibaba, one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies, has announced the launch of its latest AI reasoning model, known as Qwen 3. Alibaba claims these models match (and even outperform) models from both Google and OpenAI in reasoning tasks.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. took the wraps off a new version of its flagship Qwen AI model, sustaining the breakneck pace of development that’s characterized China’s artificial intelligence sphere in the wake of DeepSeek.