Alibaba Group has announced the launch of Qwen3-Coder, an open-source AI model focused on software development.

The model supports tasks such as code generation and managing complex coding workflows.

Qwen3-Coder is designed for agentic AI tasks, enabling it to solve coding challenges independently.

According to Alibaba, it outperformed local rivals like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI’s K2 in benchmarks.

It also matched the performance of leading US models such as Claude and GPT-4 in some areas.

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