Alibaba drops Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B: 80B scale with 3B compute
Alibaba just released Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B, an ultra-sparse MoE model that packs 80B total parameters while only activating 3B per token. It delivers 10x faster inference and 10x cheaper training than Qwen3-32B, with its Thinking variant outperforming Gemini-2.5-Flash-Thinking. Basically, flagship-grade reasoning is now running at lightweight speed.