India, May 9 -- Alibaba's new Qwen3 family of AI models has surpassed DeepSeek's R1 to become the world's best open-source model. According to reports, Qwen3 did better than R1 in tests that measure open-source AI models' abilities in areas like language instruction, math, coding, and data analysis.

The Qwen3 family was launched last week by Alibaba's cloud computing unit. It has eight improved models with between 600 million and 235 billion parameters. In machine learning, parameters are the variables in an AI system while it is being trained.

According to LiveBench platform, an independent platform that tests large language models, before these new tests, DeepSeek's R1 had been the best open-source AI model in the world since it came ...