Tag: architectural innovations

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/12/qwen3-next/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B: 🐧🦩 Who needs legs?! Feedly Summary: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Qwen announced two new models via their Twitter account (nothing on their blog yet): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. They make some big claims on performance: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct approaches our 235B flagship. Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking outperforms Gemini-2.5-Flash-Thinking. The name “80B-A3B" indicates 80 billion parameters…