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  "slug": "qwen3-30b-a3b",
  "order": 11,
  "name": "Qwen3 (30B-A3B)",
  "baseTitle": "Qwen3 30B-A3B",
  "company": "Alibaba Cloud",
  "country": "China",
  "flag": "🇨🇳",
  "date": "2025-04-28",
  "decoderType": "Sparse MoE",
  "attention": "GQA",
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  "scale": "30B total, 3B active (10% active)",
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  "contextTokens": 128000,
  "license": "Apache License 2.0",
  "kvCacheText": "96 KiB",
  "kvCacheKiB": 96,
  "kvCacheLevel": "Moderate",
  "summary": "Small sparse Qwen3 model that sits close to GPT-OSS in active size but uses a deeper stack.",
  "keyDetail": "Deeper, narrower MoE alternative to GPT-OSS without a shared expert.",
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    "thumb": "https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/images/architectures/thumbnails/qwen3-30b-a3b.webp",
    "alt": "Figure 27: Qwen3 30B-A3B",
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    "height": 925
  },
  "articleUrl": "https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-big-llm-architecture-comparison#%C2%A79-gpt-oss",
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      "label": "View in article",
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      "title": null
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      "label": "config.json",
      "href": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B/blob/main/config.json",
      "title": "Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B"
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      "label": "License",
      "href": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B/blob/main/LICENSE",
      "title": null
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      "url": "https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct"
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  "markdownUrl": "https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/models/qwen3-30b-a3b.md"
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