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If the AI industry had an equivalent to the recording industry’s “song of the summer” — a hit that catches on in the warmer months here in the Northern Hemisphere and is heard playing everywhere — the clear honoree for that title would go to Alibaba’s Qwen Team.
Over just the past week, the frontier model AI research division of the Chinese e-commerce behemoth has released not one, not two, not three, but four (!!) new open source generative AI models that offer record-setting benchmarks, besting even some leading proprietary options.
Last night, Qwen Team capped it off with the release of Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507, it’s updated reasoning large language model (LLM), which takes longer to respond than a non-reasoning or “instruct” LLM, engaging in “chains-of-thought” or self-reflection and self-checking that hopefully result in more correct and comprehensive responses on more difficult tasks.
Indeed, the new Qwen3-Thinking-2507, as we’ll call it for short, now leads or closely trails top-performing models across several major benchmarks.
