# Qwen3: new frontier model family released

> Alibaba released Qwen3, a new model family led by Qwen3-235B-A22B which achieves competitive benchmark results against DeepSeek-R1, o1, o3-mini, Grok-3, and Gemini-2.5-Pro. The range also includes Qwen3-30B-A3B, a small MoE model that outperforms QwQ-32B with 10x fewer activated parameters, and Qwen3-4B which rivals Qwen2's performance.

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|---|---|
| **Tool** | Qwen |
| **Version** | — |
| **Kind** | announcement |
| **Published** | 2025-04-28 |
| **Observed** | 2026-08-11 |
| **Significance** | 5/5 |
| **Breaking** | no |
| **Categories** | new-model |

## What changed


- Qwen3-235B-A22B: flagship MoE model competitive with DeepSeek-R1, o1, o3-mini, Grok-3, Gemini-2.5-Pro
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: small MoE model outperforming QwQ-32B with 10x fewer activated parameters
- Qwen3-4B: tiny model matching Qwen2 performance


## Sources

- [blog_rss](https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3/) — retrieved 2026-08-11


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