# Qwen3-Next

Qwen3-Next is an AI model released by Qwen on Sep 11 2025. It has 80B parameters, a 256k context window and open weight.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Model | Qwen3-Next |
| Developer | Qwen |
| Release date | Thursday, Sep 11 2025 |
| Licensing | Open Weight |
| Parameters | 80B |
| Context window | 256k |

## Questions and answers

### When was Qwen3-Next released?

Qwen3-Next was released by Qwen on Thursday, Sep 11 2025.

### Who made Qwen3-Next?

Qwen3-Next was built by Qwen. Alibaba's AI lab, building the Qwen family. The most prolific publisher of open-weight models of any major lab, alongside a proprietary Max and Plus tier sold through Alibaba Cloud.

### What is the context window of Qwen3-Next?

Qwen3-Next has a context window of 256k. That is the maximum amount of input plus output the model can hold in a single request.

### How many parameters does Qwen3-Next have?

Qwen3-Next is reported at 80B parameters.

### Is Qwen3-Next open source?

Partly. Qwen3-Next is an open-weight model: the trained weights are free to download and run locally or on your own infrastructure, but the training data and code are not fully released and the license may restrict some commercial uses. It is not open source in the strict sense.

### What came before and after Qwen3-Next?

Qwen's previous tracked release was Qwen3-Coder on Jul 22 2025, 51 days earlier. It was followed by Qwen3-Max on Sep 24 2025.


---

Canonical page: https://aireleasetracker.com/model/qwen/qwen3-next
Full dataset: https://aireleasetracker.com/llms-full.txt · JSON: https://aireleasetracker.com/models.json
Source: AI Release Tracker (https://aireleasetracker.com). Benchmark scores are the figures published by the releasing lab at launch.