Alibaba releases Qwen3-Coder
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Released Qwen3-Coder — first model Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct (480B total / 35B active MoE), 256K native context extendable to 1M, pretrained on 7.5T tokens (70% code), Apache 2.0
Why it matters
Alibaba claimed state-of-the-art results among open models in agentic coding, browser use and tool use, and open-sourced the command-line coding tool Qwen Code alongside it
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Officialqwenlm.github.iohttps://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3-coder/Added in Week 41, 2026 · See that week
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- Earlier versionQwen3
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- Later versionQwen3.5-397B-A17B