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Qwen3 Beats Claude Opus 4? Just a Minor Update!

Qwen3 Beats Claude Opus 4? Just a Minor Update!

Qwen3 surpasses Kimi K2 & Claude Opus 4 in benchmarks! A 'minor update' with 235B params, 256K context, and top-tier reasoning. Bigger upgrades coming soon!

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Open-source large models are entering "China time."

While Kimi K2 is still riding high, less than a week later, Qwen3 has received its latest upgrade, with 235B total parameters occupying only a quarter of Kimi K2's 1T scale.

Yet in benchmark performance, it has surpassed Kimi K2.

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Qwen officials also announced they will no longer use hybrid thinking modes, but will instead train the Instruct and Thinking models separately.

Therefore, the new model released this time only supports non-thinking mode. The web version is now available for use, but the Tongyi APP has not yet been updated.

Qwen officials also revealed: This is just a small update! The big moves are coming soon!

But in any case, goodbye Qwen3-235B-A22B, hello Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507.

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