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Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (Thinking)

Alibaba's 80-billion-parameter Qwen3-Next thinking release with enforced reasoning, published as a distinct Apache-2.0 open-weights checkpoint with a hosted Model Studio API.

Developer
Alibaba
Distribution
Downloadable weights · Developer API
Artifact licensing
Open-licensed artifacts
License scope
Reviewed release artifacts and mandatory terms; not an assessment of training code or training data openness.
Licenses
Apache License 2.0
Boundary
This record represents the Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking weight release of September 2025 at Hugging Face commit e502dd4100cc68c0de57643fd4317ec93a128670 (last modified 2025-09-15), a distinct post-trained checkpoint from the Instruct sibling, together with the hosted qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking API model. The Base weights, the Instruct sibling, the FP8 variant, later Qwen generations, and community quantizations remain separate boundaries.

Risk statements

Not yet examined.

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