China's Alibaba challenges U.S. tech giants with open source Qwen3-Omni AI model accepting text, audio, image and video

Chinese search giant Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers has debuted what may be its most impressive model yet: Qwen3-Omni, an open source large language model (LLM) that the company bills as the first "natively end-to-end omni-modal AI unifying text, image, audio & video in one model.