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Alibaba Group has launched Qwen3-Coder, an open-source artificial intelligence model tailored for software development. The Chinese tech giant introduced the model on Wednesday, describing it as “its most advanced coding tool to date.”
Qwen3-Coder is specifically engineered to handle complex software development tasks such as code generation and managing intricate programming workflows.
What sets it apart, according to Alibaba, is its superior performance in “agentic AI coding tasks”. It is a term that refers to automated coding processes where AI operates independently to solve programming problems.
With tech firms across the globe racing to advance generative AI capabilities, Alibaba’s move reflects China’s strategic push to match and even surpass Western innovations. The company reported that Qwen3-Coder surpassed local rivals such as DeepSeek and Moonshot AI’s K2 in several core coding functions.
Even more notably, Alibaba claimed that Qwen3-Coder rivals top-tier U.S. models, including Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4, in some areas—signaling the emergence of Chinese AI as a serious contender in the global tech ecosystem.
