Elon Musk teases Grok 3.5 hours after Alibaba’s Qwen3 generates buzz amid US-China AI race

On Tuesday, Alibaba released the third generation of its Qwen family of AI models, with multiple versions, each featuring a different number of parameters. The largest model, with 235 billion parameters, outperformed DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI’s o1 reasoning models, according to Alibaba, owner of the Post. At 600 million parameters, the most efficient version of the model could be capable of running on a smartphone, some experts have said.

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