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Jan 27, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Qwen3‑Max‑Thinking Boosts Performance with Test‑Time Scaling—Why It Still Isn’t Open‑Source

Alibaba’s new Qwen3‑Max‑Thinking model adds inference‑time scaling and adaptive tool use, delivering large gains on math, coding, and agent benchmarks while remaining closed‑source, and it offers drop‑in OpenAI‑compatible API access at the cost of higher latency and token usage.