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Act V · Reasoning and agents

Open modelAlibaba

Qwen3

One model can switch between thinking and non-thinking modes; open-sourced under Apache 2.0.

Apache 2.0license

Why it matters

Every size and a permissive license made it one of the most widely used base models in open source.

Built on

QwenDeepSeek-R1

Led to

Qwen3.5

Source: qwenlm.github.io ↗

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