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Alibaba Launches Qwen3-Max, a Trillion-Parameter Language Model

The new flagship model was unveiled at the company's Apsara Conference and is a key part of its "AI first" growth strategy.

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Alibaba launched its Qwen3-Max large language model, which contains over 1 trillion parameters and is designed to compete with the largest proprietary models from leading U.S. AI firms.

A New Competitor at Scale

Chinese technology firm Alibaba Group Holding launched its largest and most powerful language model to date, the Qwen3-Max, on September 24, 2025. The announcement was made at the company's annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, a major event showcasing its latest advancements in cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

Zhou Jingren, chief technology officer at Alibaba Cloud, stated that the new model contains more than 1 trillion parameters, the variables an AI system uses to process information. This scale places Qwen3-Max in the same class as the largest proprietary models developed by leading U.S. firms like …

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