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Alibaba released the next generation of its open-source large language models, Qwen3, today — and experts are already calling it another breakthrough in China’s rapidly growing open-source AI space.
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Alibaba Launches New ‘Hybrid’ AI Reasoning Models
OpenAI Rolls Out New Shopping Features With ChatGPT Search Update
AI Tutorial: How to use the new Qwen 3 locally
AI Tools to check out
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI Findings/Resources
AI News
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Alibaba Launches New ‘Hybrid’ AI Reasoning Models
Alibaba’s Qwen team has just launched a new series of open-source, multimodal large language models called Qwen3, which appear to rival the performance of proprietary models from companies like OpenAI and Google.
Details:
The Qwen3 family comprises eight models, ranging from 600 million to 235 billion parameters, offering both dense and mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures, and supporting 119 languages.
The new models are “hybrid” models, meaning they can take time to “reason” through complex problems or answer simpler requests quickly, offering users the flexibility to control the thinking budget.
Their flagship model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, outperforms DeepSeek R1, o1, and even rivals Gemini 2.5-Pro on key third-party benchmarks like ArenaHard, while also surpassing o3-mini on the latest versions of AIME and BFCL, a test designed to evaluate a model’s reasoning ability.
That model isn’t publicly available yet; the largest public Qwen3 model, Qwen3-32B, reportedly rivals R1 and surpasses OpenAI’s o1 on several tests.
In addition to the two MoE models, Qwen3 also includes dense models at various scales: Qwen3-32B, Qwen3-14B, Qwen3-8B, Qwen3-4B, Qwen3-1.7B, and Qwen3-0.6B.
They are available for download under an “open” license on AI dev platform Hugging Face and GitHub.
This launch intensifies the competition in China's AI sector, with major players like Baidu and DeepSeek also escalating their AI efforts to close the gap with the top AI models—and doing so at an incredible speed.
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OpenAI Rolls Out New Shopping Features With ChatGPT Search Update
OpenAI is making ChatGPT a better shopping assistant; it can now show handy product cards with images, prices, ratings, and detailed descriptions for certain shopping-related queries.
Details:
All recommendations are organic, with OpenAI partnering with retailers to ensure up-to-date pricing.
Clicking on a product card opens a sidebar with more details, like where to buy, user reviews, and an option to ask further questions about the product.
OpenAI says it also plans to soon integrate its memory feature with shopping for Pro and Plus users, meaning ChatGPT will reference a user's previous chats to make highly personalized product recommendations.
The shopping updates are rolling out to all ChatGPT users, including free and paid accounts.
Other updates include improved citations, trending searches, and autocomplete. Additionally, OpenAI will now let you message or call 1-800-CHATGPT via WhatsApp.
The update comes as the search feature has become one of ChatGPT's fastest-growing and most-used capabilities, according to the company, which just reported that the function has crossed a major milestone, processing over one billion web searches in a single week.
AI Tutorial
How to use the new Qwen 3 locally
Download LM Studio
Search for "Qwen 3".
Select the size you want: 4B, 8B, 14B or 32B (Keep in mind your computer's capabilities when choosing the model size.)
Click Download.
Once downloaded:
Click on "New Chat", then choose "Select a model to load".
Load the model you just downloaded and start chatting.
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