Lesson 986 of 1570
AI and Qwen 3: Alibaba's Open Multilingual Model
Qwen 3 from Alibaba is one of the strongest open-weight models — and best in Chinese.
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- 1The big idea
- 2qwen
- 3alibaba
- 4open weights
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Section 1
The big idea
Qwen 3 (Alibaba) is an open-weight family with strong English performance and best-in-class Chinese. Variants exist for chat, code, math, and vision. Free to download and run.
Some examples
- Run Qwen 3 locally via Ollama or LM Studio.
- Qwen Coder is a strong open coding model.
- Best-in-class for Chinese tasks; great for ESL students learning Mandarin.
- Hosted by Alibaba — read data policies before sending sensitive info.
Try it!
Pull Qwen 3 8B with Ollama. Ask it the same question in English and another language. Compare quality.
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