Alibaba’s Qwen3-Omni tops Hugging Face AI ranking as Chinese open systems flourish
Alibaba’s open-source models make up half of the top 10 spots on Hugging Face’s trending rankings
Alibaba’s cloud computing unit unveiled the Qwen3-Omni series on Tuesday, describing it as the first native end-to-end multimodal system that “unifies text, images, audio and video in one model”.
Shares of Alibaba rose 4.14 per cent in Hong Kong on Monday, closing at HK$173.40.
Initially launched in April, Qwen3 has expanded into a family of models possessing text, image, audio and visual capabilities, as well as various multimodal systems tailored for real-world applications.
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Qwen researcher Lin Junyang attributed the new multimodal system’s enhancements to general improvements across foundational projects related to audio and images. The Qwen team “combined everything … to build our Qwen3-Omni”, he said.