Today, Alibaba officially released QwenLong-L1-32B, a large language model specifically designed for long-context reasoning. This marks a significant breakthrough in AI's ability to handle long texts. The model outperforms o3-mini and Qwen3-235B-A22B in performance and reaches a comparable level with Claude-3.7-Sonnet-Thinking.

Technical Innovation Highlights

The biggest technical breakthrough of QwenLong-L1-32B is that it is the world's first long-text contextual reasoning model trained through reinforcement learning. Based on the QwenLong-L1 framework, this model adopts advanced GRPO (Group Relative Policy Optimization) and DAPO (Direct Alignment Policy Optimization) algorithms, combined with hybrid reward functions based on rules and models, significantly improving the accuracy and efficiency of the model in long-context reasoning.

In seven long-text contextual document question-answering benchmarks, QwenLong-L1-32B has demonstrated outstanding performance, proving its leading capability in handling complex long-text tasks.

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Complete Solution System

Besides the model itself, Alibaba also released a complete solution for long-text reasoning problems. This solution includes four core components: the high-performance QwenLong-L1-32B model, specialized optimized training datasets, innovative reinforcement learning training methods, and comprehensive performance evaluation systems.

The release of this complete solution provides developers and researchers with full-chain tools from model training to performance evaluation, expected to accelerate the industrialization process of long-text AI applications.

Industry Impact

The release of QwenLong-L1-32B not only showcases Alibaba's strength in AI technology innovation but also sets a new technical benchmark for the entire industry in the field of long-text processing. As the application scenarios of large models continue to expand, long-text reasoning capability will become one of the key indicators for measuring the intelligence level of AI systems.

The launch of this model is expected to generate significant application value in fields such as document analysis, legal research, and academic literature processing, which require deep understanding of long texts.

GitHub: https://github.com/Tongyi-Zhiwen/QwenLong-L1