Alibaba has released the Qwen3 family of open-weight AI models, including various size variants.Qwen3's 235B parameter model outperforms OpenAI's o1 and o3-mini models and is on par with Gemini 2.5 Pro.Qwen3 lags behind OpenAI's o4-mini model in LiveCodeBench coding benchmark.The Qwen3 release is praised for its coordination across the LLM ecosystem by Simon Willison, co-creator of Django Web Framework.