Qwen 3 surpassed Claude 4 Opus and DeepSeek V3 in tests
The Qwen team released an update to their flagship model Qwen 3. The results are excellent. The new version surpasses such powerful models as Claude 4 Opus, Kimi K2 and DeepSeek V3 in many key indicators.
Particularly important is the developers’ strategic decision to abandon the hybrid approach. Now instead of combining Instruct and Reasoning modes in one model, they release separate specialized versions. Today the Instruct model is presented. And the version for deep reasoning is already in active development.
The foundation of the new architecture is Mixture of Experts technology. Where from 235 billion parameters only 22 billion are actively used. This makes the model significantly lighter for computations, which is critically important for real application.
The developers claim they significantly improved the model’s basic knowledge coverage, its logical reasoning capabilities and long context processing up to 256,000 tokens. The model now follows user preferences much better.
In the future, the team plans to distill technologies into younger versions, which will make Qwen 3’s power accessible not only to owners of top graphics cards.