Alibaba’s Qwen3 surpasses Llama as top open-source model

Alibaba’s Qwen3 surpasses Llama as top open-source model

Alibaba’s Qwen3 model family has surpassed Meta’s Llama as the most-downloaded open-source AI model worldwide, with over 600 million downloads, according to Interconnect‘s 2025 Open Models Year in Review published this week. The review details that Qwen3 serves as the top choice for fine-tuning tasks, particularly those involving multilingual capabilities. It states that the model family “is regarded as the choice for a lot of problems, especial…