Alibaba’s Qwen3 Overtakes DeepSeek’s R1, Emerging as World’s Leading Open-Source AI Model

In a dramatic shift within the open-source AI landscape, Alibaba’s newly released Qwen3 family of models has surpassed DeepSeek’s R1 to claim the world’s top position. According to independent testing by LiveBench, Qwen3 outperformed R1 in assessments across various domains including language instruction, mathematics, coding, and data analysis. This milestone follows the launch of the eight-model Qwen3 family by Alibaba’s cloud computing unit last week, with each model possessing between 600 million to 235 billion parameters.