Alibaba Cloud took a significant step towards democratizing AI on September 23, 2025, by releasing Qwen3-Omni, a powerful, fully open-source multimodal model. Unlike competitors closed-source flagship models, Qwen3-Omni can natively process text, images, audio, and video within a single architecture and is available under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits free commercial use. The model demonstrates high performance, surpassing GPT-4o in several benchmarks, and supports 119 languages for text and 19 for audio. This release provides developers and companies worldwide with a free and powerful alternative for building their own multimodal AI applications, posing a serious challenge to the dominance of proprietary systems from OpenAI and Google and strengthening Alibabas position as a leader in the open-source community.
Alibaba Launches Open-Source Multimodal Model Qwen3-Omni
