Overview
Qwen Team developed and released the Qwen3 series, a state-of-the-art family of language models optimized for advanced reasoning, dialogue, instruction-following, and agentic use cases. Qwen3 introduces innovative thinking/non-thinking mode switching, long context capabilities, and multilingual support, all while achieving high efficiency and performance.
The Qwen3 models span several sizes and include support for seamless reasoning, complex tool usage, and detailed multi-turn conversations, making them ideal for applications such as research assistants, code generation, enterprise chatbots, and more.
Variants
Qwen3
| No | Variant | Branch | Cortex CLI command |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen3-0.6B | 0.6b | cortex run qwen3:0.6b |
| 2 | Qwen3-1.7B | 1.7b | cortex run qwen3:1.7b |
| 3 | Qwen3-4B | 4b | cortex run qwen3:4b |
| 4 | Qwen3-8B | 8b | cortex run qwen3:8b |
| 5 | Qwen3-14B | 14b | cortex run qwen3:14b |
| 6 | Qwen3-32B | 32b | cortex run qwen3:32b |
| 7 | Qwen3-30B-A3B | 30b-a3b | cortex run qwen3:30b-a3b |
Each branch contains multiple quantized GGUF versions:
- Qwen3-0.6B: q2_k, q3_k_l, q3_k_m, q3_k_s, q4_k_m, q4_k_s, q5_k_m, q5_k_s, q6_k, q8_0
- Qwen3-1.7B: q2_k, q3_k_l, q3_k_m, q3_k_s, q4_k_m, q4_k_s, q5_k_m, q5_k_s, q6_k, q8_0
- Qwen3-4B: q2_k, q3_k_l, q3_k_m, q3_k_s, q4_k_m, q4_k_s, q5_k_m, q5_k_s, q6_k, q8_0
- Qwen3-8B: q2_k, q3_k_l, q3_k_m, q3_k_s, q4_k_m, q4_k_s, q5_k_m, q5_k_s, q6_k, q8_0
- Qwen3-32B: q2_k, q3_k_l, q3_k_m, q3_k_s, q4_k_m, q4_k_s, q5_k_m, q5_k_s, q6_k, q8_0
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: *q2_k, q3_k_l, q3_k_m, q3_k_s, q4_k_m, q4_k_s, q5_k_m, q5_k_s, q6_k, q8_0
Use it with Jan (UI)
- Install Jan using Quickstart
- Use in Jan model Hub:
cortexso/qwen3
Use it with Cortex (CLI)
- Install Cortex using Quickstart
- Run the model with command:
cortex run qwen3
Credits
- Author: Qwen Team
- Converter: Menlo Research
- Original License: License
- Blogs: Qwen3: Think Deeper, Act Faster