Introduction Qwen has unveiled Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, their most powerful open agentic code model released to date. With a distinctive Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and comprehensive agentic coding capabilities, Qwen3-Coder not only sets a new standard for open-source coding models but also redefines what’s possible for large-scale, autonomous developer assistance. Model Architecture and Specifications Key Features Model Size: 480 billion parameters (Mixture-of-Experts), with 35 billion active parameters during inference. Architecture: 160 experts, 8 activated per inference, enabling both efficiency and scalability. Layers: 62 Attention Heads (GQA): 96 (Q), 8 (KV) Context Length: Natively supports 256,000 tokens; scales to 1,000,000 tokens using context extrapolation techniques. Supported Languages: Supports a large variety of programming and…
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