Qwen3-Max-Thinking
Alibaba Qwen · · 172 days after Qwen-Image
Partially verified
0 of 1 published values traced to a source1 primary source, 1 archived2 not disclosed by the lab1 not researched yet
Why this status
Cited to the lab's own announcement. Not verified because the release date could not be found in any cited primary source — the value may be correct, but this dataset cannot yet show where it came from. Modalities recorded as text-to-text. No image, audio or video capability appears anywhere in the primary sources, which labs advertise prominently when present.
What these states mean · How records are judged · Has this record changed?
The reasoning configuration of Qwen3-Max, served through the API as qwen3-max-2026-01-23.
Details
| Released | January 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba Qwen |
| Family | Qwen |
| Era | Agentic systems |
| Type | Language model · Reasoning model |
| Modalities | Text → Text |
| Capabilities | Reasoning |
| Weights | Proprietary |
| Licence | Not applicable — proprietary |
| Context window | Not disclosed |
| Parameters | Not disclosed |
Current information, elsewhere
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Sources
Record status: partly verified · confidence 60/100 · 1 of 1 primary
Cited to the lab's own announcement. Not verified because the release date could not be found in any cited primary source — the value may be correct, but this dataset cannot yet show where it came from. Modalities recorded as text-to-text. No image, audio or video capability appears anywhere in the primary sources, which labs advertise prominently when present.
Primary means published by the organisation that made the model. Verified records require at least one.
Qwen family
- Qwen1.5-72B February 4, 2024
- Qwen2-72B June 7, 2024
- Qwen2.5-72B September 19, 2024
- QwQ-32B March 6, 2025
- Qwen3-235B-A22B April 29, 2025
- Qwen3-30B-A3B April 29, 2025
- Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct July 22, 2025
- Qwen3-Max-Thinking January 23, 2026
- Qwen3-Coder-Next February 2, 2026
- Qwen3.5-397B-A17B February 14, 2026
- Qwen3.6-Plus April 2, 2026
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B April 15, 2026
- Qwen3.6-27B April 21, 2026
- Qwen3.7-Max May 16, 2026
- Qwen3.7-Plus May 21, 2026
- Qwen3.8-Max August 3, 2026
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next August 3, 2026
- Qwen3.8-27B August 5, 2026
- Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B August 8, 2026
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash September 18, 2026
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