Stone to Silicon

Artificial intelligence · 2025

Qwen3

Alibaba's open family with switchable thinking, from 0.6B to 235B parameters.

Released in April 2025 under Apache 2.0, Qwen3 included dense and MoE models trained on about 36 trillion tokens, with a hybrid thinking mode. Qwen became one of the most widely fine-tuned base model families on Hugging Face and a staple of local inference.

See it in the living treeWikipedia

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

What it led to 1

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)