Qwen 3
Alibaba’s May 2025 release — first open family with hybrid reasoning (toggle-able chain of thought), Apache 2.0 across all sizes.
Alibaba’s May 2025 release — first open family with hybrid reasoning (toggle-able chain of thought), Apache 2.0 across all sizes.
DeepSeek’s January 2025 reasoning model — frontier chain-of-thought quality, plus six MIT-licensed distills from 1.5B to 70B.
DeepSeek’s December 2024 frontier-scale MoE — 671B total, 37B active, trained for ~$5.6M in compute.
Last reviewed July 9, 2026.