Qwen 3: 0.6B to 235B MoE full+base models that beat R1 and o1

**Qwen 3** has been released by **Alibaba** featuring a range of models including two MoE variants, **Qwen3-235B-A22B** and **Qwen3-30B-A3B**, which demonstrate competitive performance against top models like **DeepSeek-R1**, **o1**, **o3-mini**, **Grok-3**, and **Gemini-2.5-Pro**. The models introduce an "enable_thinking=True" mode with advanced soft switching for inference scaling. The release is notable for its Apache 2.0 license and broad inference platform support including MCP. The dataset improvements and multi-stage RL post-training contribute to performance gains. Meanwhile, **Gemini 2.5 Pro** from **Google DeepMind** shows strong coding and long-context reasoning capabilities, and **DeepSeek R2** is anticipated soon. Twitter discussions highlight Qwen3's finegrained MoE architecture, large context window, and multi-agent system applications.