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This week, Alibaba’s Qwen3-235B-A22B non-thinking mode (Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507), secured third place on the competitive Chatbot Arena leaderboard just days after its launch; Meanwhile, Alibaba released its ungraded Qwen3-30B series with three streamlined models optimized for cost efficiency and development flexibility, empowering developers worldwide to harness cutting-edge AI without comprising performance.
Qwen3-235B Undertakes Top 3 on Global LLM Leaderboard
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, Alibaba’s latest open-source large language model featuring 235 billion parameters and significant improvements in general knowledge, has secured third place on Chatbot Arena—tying with GPT-4.5 and Grok-4. Additionally, Qwen3 also ties for the first in Coding, Hard Prompts, Math, Instruction Following and Longer Query on Chatbot Arena as the top open model.
Chatbot Arena, a widely respected benchmark platform for LLMs, evaluates models through anonymous comparisons in a crowdsourced and randomized format. This achievement further underscores the strong performance and growing competitiveness of Alibaba’s open-source language models in the global AI landscape.
With 256K long-context understanding capabilities, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 exhibits significant improvements in general capabilities, including instruction following, logical reasoning, text comprehension, mathematics, science, coding and tool usage. It also showcases remarkable alignment with user preferences in subjective and open-ended tasks, enabling more helpful responses and higher-quality text generation.
New Qwen3-30B Series Delivers Powerful Performance in Small Sizes
In addition to open sourcing top-notched powerful large language models, Alibaba has been releasing upgraded lightweight yet powerful smaller-size models, which are easier to be deployed and run more cost efficiently for global developers. This week, the company unveiled a series of Qwen3 models with 30 billion parameters, including a thinking model (Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507), a non-thinking model (Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507) and a streamlined coding model (Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct).

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