qwen3-max-2026-01-23Qwen3-Max-Thinking is Alibaba's latest flagship reasoning-enhanced large language model, evolving the Qwen3-Max architecture to emphasize deep, multi-step analytical reasoning and tool collaboration. It scales the model's capacity significantly—reportedly to over 1 trillion parameters—and integrates a “Thinking Mode” where the model can expose and leverage step-by-step reasoning traces before producing final answers, enabling more reliable solutions to complex problems such as advanced mathematics, logic, and multi-stage tasks.
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from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( api_key="YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.apertis.ai/v1") response = client.chat.completions.create( model="qwen3-max-2026-01-23", messages=[ {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"} ], max_tokens=1024, temperature=0.7) print(response.choices[0].message.content) # Optional: Enable context compression to reduce token usage# response = client.chat.completions.create(# model="qwen3-max-2026-01-23",# messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],# extra_body={"compression": {"enabled": True, "model": "gpt-4.1-mini"}}# )modelmessagesmax_tokenstemperaturetop_pstreamtoolsreasoning_effortstream_optionsthinkingextra_bodyUse these namespaced identifiers in Cursor IDE to avoid conflicts with built-in models.
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