On Wednesday, Alibaba Group announced the launch of Qwen3-Coder — a new open-source artificial intelligence model designed to automate software development processes. According to the Chinese e-commerce giant, this is currently their most powerful coding tool.
The model's release comes amid growing competition between Chinese and U.S. tech companies in the global race for AI dominance. Both sides are actively developing increasingly complex and powerful models.
Qwen3-Coder is focused on programming tasks such as code generation, managing complex workflows, and implementing AI agent coding — automated scenarios where AI independently performs specific programming tasks.
According to performance tests released by Alibaba, Qwen3-Coder outperformed major Chinese competitors, including models from DeepSeek and Moonshot AI K2, in key coding metrics.
Additionally, the company claims their model reaches the level of leading Western counterparts, including Claude by Anthropic and GPT-4 by OpenAI, in certain use cases.