America never expected that after Hangzhou, the capital of e-commerce in China, transformed into a tech hub, it would become a nightmare for Silicon Valley! This beautiful city with West Lake is quietly overturning America's AI hegemony!

Hangzhou's gentle demeanor hides sharpness in technology! A group of tech challengers threw down the gauntlet to American Silicon Valley, and as an old player in Hangzhou's tech scene, Alibaba Technology demonstrated its strength and presence! At 4:29 AM on April 29th, overseas social platforms were in an uproar. Alibaba released and open-sourced the new Qwen3 model from the Qwen series. Shortly after its release, Qwen3 quickly topped various evaluation lists, becoming the strongest open-source large model in the world!

To everyone's surprise, such a top-tier large model, with eight sizes ranging from 0.6B to 235B parameters, was fully open-sourced by Alibaba all at once.

In the track of open-source large models, Alibaba Qwen can be said to have left others far behind. Alibaba Qwen has already open-sourced over 200 models, with global downloads exceeding 300 million times. The number of derivative models from Qwen exceeds 100,000, surpassing America's Llama to become the world's No. 1 open-source model.

The latest open-source large model list published by the world's largest AI open-source community, Huggingface, shows that all ten models listed are derivative models trained again based on the open-source models of Qwen. An increasing number of developers and enterprises worldwide are using Alibaba's Qwen models to reduce costs for AI training and innovation.

Hangzhou is not only China's AI capital but also the mainstay of China's open-source large models. Both the Qwen series models from Alibaba and the DeepSeek series were born in Hangzhou. Their open-source routes have not only broken America's lead in AI but have also brought about a new turning point in the global AI competition.

Chinese large models have broken through America's technological blockade with open-source strategies. Even Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, had to admit that it's less about China defeating American AI and more about open-source triumphing over closed-source. Dr. Roelof Botha, a former federal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice, believes that one day China will become a leader in the AI field.

America thought that by clinging to the closed-source route of high cost, high computing power, and high parameters, preventing the spread of advanced technologies, and forming a monopoly advantage, it could win the championship in global AI competition. Who would have thought that Chinese AI did not compete with America for control over closed-source models but chose to carve out its own territory in the open-source domain. Ultimately, the success of Alibaba Qwen3 proved that open-source is indeed the inevitable choice for China to break through in AI!

Now, American companies have also realized the power of open-source and want to change their approach. Unfortunately, in the high-end open-source arena, America has already been eliminated. Recently, Meta, an American open-source player, released Llama 4, which sparked widespread skepticism. In the high-end arena, there was no trace of this model, and it was directly pushed out of the main track.

Clearly, in the high-end arena of large model open-source, only Chinese players remain to vie for the final crown! What's both thrilling and humorous is that the only contenders left to claim the title of the world's strongest open-source model are the "DQ" duo, both born in Hangzhou: Alibaba Qwen and DeepSeek. It was once thought that open-source large models would be the new battleground between China and the US in AI. Who would have imagined that within just a year, this battlefield evolved from a "China-US player showdown" to a "Hangzhou player friendly match"!

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, reluctantly admitted: standing on the wrong side of history without open-source. The successful ascension of Alibaba Qwen3 as the world's strongest open-source model is undoubtedly history once again mocking OpenAI: yes, open-source is indeed the right choice! And this arena of open-source is exclusively the battlefield of Chinese players!

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