Alibaba launches its ‘most advanced’ open-source AI model Qwen3-Coder — All you need to know

China-based Alibaba deepened its presence in the artificial intelligence race as it announced on Wednesday the launch of an open-source AI coder.

In a statement on Wednesday, Alibaba announced the launch of Qwen3-Coder. This AI model is designed for high-performance software development, it said.

Alibaba touted Qwen-3 Coder as its most advanced AI coding model to date.

The model excels in agentic AI coding tasks, from generating new codes and managing complex coding workflows, according to the statement.

“We’re releasing Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, our most powerful open agentic code model to date,” said a post on Qwen’s X account.

Qwen is the AI model made by Alibaba.

Here is all you need to know about Qwen-3 Coder

This Qwen3-Coder is a 480B-parametre Mixture-of-Experts model (35B active), Alibaba said.

This AI model natively supports 256,000 context and scales to 1 million context with extrapolation, it said.

“It achieves top-tier performance across multiple agentic coding benchmarks among open models, including SWE-bench-Verified,” said the X post.

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