Next AI Model
ArchiveLinesTimeline

Qwen 3

Alibaba · Qwen line · flagship · open weights

Released April 29, 2025Replaced by Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Qwen 3 was released by Alibaba on April 29, 2025, as an open-weights flagship model in the Qwen line.

What changed

Qwen3 open models can switch between step-by-step thinking and quick answers, support 119 languages and dialects, and are licensed under Apache 2.0.

Compared with Qwen 2.5 · the model it replaces

Learned from nearly twice as much text as Qwen 2.5

Pre-training data — how many tokens of text the models learned from, in 119 languages and dialects

about 36 trillion tokens

▲ up from 18 trillion for Qwen2.5 · nearly twice as much

Sources: Qwen · Qwen (GitHub) · Hugging Face

Get new AI models by email

Every Monday, only when something shipped: the AI models that came out, what each one changed, and which lines are due next.

We email you a link to confirm first · unsubscribe anytime · read past issues · about the newsletter · RSS for the Qwen line

Where the Qwen line stands

Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B is the current model in this line. The card shows how long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.

Qwen

Alibaba · flagship line · open weights

Latest: Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B · Aug 12, 2026

AnnouncedQwen 4 · announced Sep 22, 2026, 32 days ago

“At the conference, Alibaba revealed that its next-generation model, Qwen 4, is currently in training.” — Alibaba, Sep 22, 2026 · Alibaba Cloud

Open-weights release of Qwen 3.8-Max, without the cloud model's image input and non-thinking mode; a commercial licence is required above $50M in annual revenue.

What changed in Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B →
Days since last release
73
days
Usual gap
177
days
Recent gaps
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B · Aug 2026
177
Qwen 3.5 · Feb 2026
210
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 · Jul 2025
83
Qwen 3 · Apr 2025
222

Every Qwen release

Newest first. See the full line with every card →

  1. Aug 12, 2026Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
  2. Feb 16, 2026Qwen 3.5
  3. Jul 21, 2025Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
  4. Apr 29, 2025Qwen 3 · this page
  5. Sep 19, 2024Qwen 2.5
  6. Jun 6, 2024Qwen 2
  7. Feb 5, 2024Qwen 1.5
  8. Nov 30, 2023Qwen-72B
  9. Aug 3, 2023Qwen-7B