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  "name": "Qwen3 (235B-A22B)",
  "baseTitle": "Qwen3 235B-A22B",
  "company": "Alibaba Cloud",
  "country": "China",
  "flag": "🇨🇳",
  "date": "2025-04-28",
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  "attention": "GQA with QK-Norm",
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  "scale": "235B total, 22B active (9.4% active)",
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  "license": "Apache License 2.0",
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  "kvCacheKiB": 188,
  "kvCacheLevel": "High",
  "summary": "Large sparse Qwen variant that stays very close to DeepSeek V3 while removing the shared expert.",
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    "thumb": "https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/images/architectures/thumbnails/qwen3-235b-a22b.webp",
    "alt": "Figure 19: Qwen3 235B-A22B",
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      "label": "View in article",
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      "title": null
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      "href": "https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/tree/main/ch05/11_qwen3",
      "title": null
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      "title": "Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B"
    },
    {
      "label": "License",
      "href": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B/blob/main/LICENSE",
      "title": null
    },
    {
      "label": "Tech report",
      "href": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.09388",
      "title": null
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