Alibaba launches Qwen-3 Max, its most powerful AI model yet to rival ChatGPT and Gemini: Here’s how to start using

Alibaba has launched its new Qwen-3 Max model, the most powerful and advanced large language model (LLM) from the Chinese AI company. The new model is positioned to compete with the likes of OpenAI’s GPT-5, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude’s Opus 4, among others.

What is Qwen-3 Max?

Qwen-3 Max is the first model in Alibaba’s Qwen series of AI models to surpass one trillion parameters and was pretrained on 36 trillion tokens. The new model comes with a context length of one million tokens, which allows it to reason through entire codebases or lengthy…