Alibaba unveils largest-ever Qwen-3 Max model

Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveiled Qwen-3 Max, its largest-ever AI model, at the company’s 2025 Apsara Conference in its home city Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on Wednesday.

The Qwen-3 Max model has over 1 trillion parameters and was pretrained on 36 trillion tokens. It comes with a context length of one million tokens, which allows it to reason through entire codebases or lengthy documents. The new model is said to offer improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage.

 A preview version of Qwen3-Max released earlier this month was ranked No.3 on LMArena’s text leaderboard. The three-day annual event will showcase Alibaba’s latest advancements in infrastructure, platforms, AI models and applications.