Alibaba Unveils Trillion-Parameter AI Model to Rival OpenAI and Google DeepMind

Alibaba Group has introduced its most advanced AI model, Qwen-3-Max-Preview, featuring over 1 trillion parameters. Released via its cloud platform and OpenRouter marketplace, this model joins the elite ranks of AI systems developed by OpenAI and Google DeepMind. A member of the company’s Qwen3 series, Qwen-3-Max-Preview is designed exclusively for text-based tasks and outperformed earlier iterations in internal evaluations. It reportedly surpassed competitors like MoonShot AI’s Kimi K2 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 in performance benchmarks, though Alibaba has not provided an official technical report. AI parameters, which determine a model’s learning capacity, continue to be a key measure of innovation in the field.