Alibaba releases Qwen3 Coder Next — open-source code specialist tuned for software engineering

Summary

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3 Coder Next on May 18, a next-generation code-specialist variant tuned for software engineering benchmarks and agentic coding loops. Availability surfaced on LLM Gateway and the Qwen3 family hub. The release follows Qwen 3.5 (February, 397B MoE with unified vision-language across 201 languages) and Qwen 3.6 (April). Together with DeepSeek V4 Pro's recent benchmark results (80.6 on SWE-Bench Verified, 1M context), Chinese open-source coding-specialist models cont