Qwen3-Next: Achieving Unmatched Training and Inference Cost‑Effectiveness
Alibaba's Qwen team unveils Qwen3-Next, a hybrid expert LLM with 800 B parameters but only 30 B active, delivering training costs under one‑tenth of comparable dense models and more than ten‑fold inference throughput for long contexts, while matching or surpassing larger models on benchmark tasks.
