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Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B

Alibaba-NLP Apache 2.0 out 13 months ago

30.5B parameters, 3B active (8 of 128 experts per token), text in, text out.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #713 in LLMs · score 71.9 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 13.8k · #482 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?18GB at INT4Estimatefits a 24 GB cardmethod
Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file
Do people use it?13.8kdownloads, 30 days#482 of 619 we track · below the median+1 likes, downloads +27% this week827 likesHugging Face

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 7 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Most discussed · 398 HN pts

Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters

Z-Image is a 6B parameter image generation model family featuring four variants optimized for different tasks.

  • Z-Image-Turbo requires a guidance scale of 0.0 during inference to function correctly.
  • The Z-Image-Omni-Base variant is not yet available on Hugging Face or ModelScope.
github.com 2025-11-30 398 HN pts · 157 comments 1.7k words about the Tongyi family family
Latest · 13 months ago

Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch

Tongyi DeepResearch is the first fully open-source Web Agent available on GitHub, HuggingFace, and ModelScope to achieve performance on par with OpenAI's DeepResearch.

  • The team tested training directly on the BrowseComp testing set, but results were substantially poorer than using their synthetic data.
  • IterResearch deconstructs tasks into research rounds to avoid cognitive suffocation from accumulating all information into a single expanding context.
tongyi-agent.github.io 2025-09-17 365 HN pts · 153 comments 2.5k words about the Tongyi family family

7 best of 7 tracked

The 2 picks above, plus these 5. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. CodeTongyi DeepResearch: the leading open-source deep research agentgithub.com · 2025-09-17 · 4 HN pts
  2. ArticleAlibaba opens AI model Tongyi Qianwen to the publicreuters.com · 2023-09-13 · 5 HN pts
  3. ArticleZ-Image: Efficient Image Gen Model with Single-Stream Diffusion Transformertongyi-mai.github.io · 2025-11-27 · 3 HN pts
  4. DiscussionThe Latest in Open Source AI from Alibaba's Tongyi Lab: FunAudioLLMold.reddit.com · 2024-07-15 · 1 HN pts
  5. ArticleAlibaba Cloud open sources its generative AI models Tongyi Qianwenscmp.com · 2023-09-13 · 1 HN pts

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

No API provider serves it, so its downloads are people running it themselves: 17 quantized builds.

  • As a service0no API provider listed
  • On own hardware17quantized builds
  • Built on53 fine-tunes · 2 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps0Hugging Face Spaces

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 64 GB Mac (unified memory) at INT4

About 18 GB at INT4, 37 GB at FP8, 73 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache. Every expert must be resident, so total parameters count.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 18 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT418 GBFP8: about 37 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP837 GBBF16: about 73 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1673 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 18 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT418 GBFP8: about 37 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP837 GBBF16: about 73 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1673 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

Most coverage came in the first two weeks

Teal is the weights (2025-09-16), amber triangles are 7 dated articles (each links to it).

What people built on it

22 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

22 derivatives on the Hub, most of them quantized

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

17 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)3 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)2 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)17 quantized3 fine-tunes2 adapters
17 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)3 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)2 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)17 quantized3 fine-tunes2 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Use-case evidence

1 use case

What it is good at 1 use case

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

17 fields

Listed in LLMs · MoE

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesQwen3MoeForCausalLM
Model typeqwen3_moe
Params by dtypeBF16: 30,532,122,624
Size bandL
MoEyes
Experts128
Experts per token8
LicenseApache 2.0 (apache-2.0)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)73 GB · Single high-end GPU (<80 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)37 GB · Single high-end GPU (<80 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)18 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra. MoE: all experts must be resident, so total parameters count.

All variants

22 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: Alibaba-NLP/Tongyi 22 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 17finetune: 3adapter: 2

Top variants (22 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
22 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
bartowski/Alibaba-NLP_Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — bartowski 22 77.5k
gabriellarson/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 gabriellarson 13 32.8k
cyankiwi/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-AWQ-4bit quantized AWQ 5.31B M apache-2.0 cyankiwi 4 21.9k
mradermacher/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-i1-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 mradermacher 6 16.5k
mradermacher/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 mradermacher 2 12k
DevQuasar/Alibaba-NLP.Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — DevQuasar 1 5.7k
noctrex/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-MXFP4_MOE-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — noctrex 4 1.7k
m-i/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-mlx-fp16 finetune mlx 30.5B L apache-2.0 m-i 1 1.3k
cyankiwi/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-AWQ-8bit quantized AWQ 9.04B L apache-2.0 cyankiwi 4 1k
m-i/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-mlx-8Bit quantized mlx 30.5B L apache-2.0 m-i 0 647
mrtoots/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-mlx-8Bit quantized mlx 30.5B L apache-2.0 mrtoots 0 642
C10X/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-Q4_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 C10X 0 632
SearchSwarm/SearchSwarm-30B-A3B finetune — 30.5B L mit SearchSwarm 5 368
abalogh/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-4bit quantized -4bit 30.5B L apache-2.0 abalogh 0 324
ramgpt/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 ramgpt 0 296
enacimie/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-Q4_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 enacimie 0 252
abalogh/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-bf16 finetune -bf16 30.5B L apache-2.0 abalogh 0 171
ArtusDev/Alibaba-NLP_Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-EXL3 quantized EXL3 — — apache-2.0 ArtusDev 1 119
lancew/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-FP8 quantized -FP8 30.5B L apache-2.0 lancew 0 166
marcalc/Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B-Q8_0-GGUF quantized Q8_0 — — apache-2.0 marcalc 0 162
danyloooah/rgh adapter — — — apache-2.0 danyloooah 1 0
Kskip/Lumini adapter — — — apache-2.0 Kskip 0 0

Articles and coverage

7 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Analysis6

github.com2025-11-30authorityHN front pageabout the Tongyi familyHN 398 pts · 157 comments1,670 words
Z-Image is a 6B parameter image generation model family featuring four variants optimized for different tasks. The Z-Image-Turbo variant achieves sub-second inference latency on H800 GPUs using only 8 NFEs and fits within 16G VRAM consumer devices. It ranks as the number one open-source model on the Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image Leaderboard, while the model adopts a Scalable Single-Stream DiT (S3-DiT) architecture. The Z-Image-Turbo model utilizes the Decoupled-DMD algorithm to achieve these few-step generation capabilities.written, reviewed, cited
  • Z-Image-Turbo requires a guidance scale of 0.0 during inference to function correctly.
  • The Z-Image-Omni-Base variant is not yet available on Hugging Face or ModelScope.
tongyi-agent.github.io2025-09-17HN front pageabout the Tongyi familyHN 365 pts · 153 comments2,506 words
Tongyi DeepResearch is the first fully open-source Web Agent available on GitHub, HuggingFace, and ModelScope to achieve performance on par with OpenAI's DeepResearch. The model scores 32.9 on Humanity's Last Exam, 43.4 on BrowseComp, and 46.7 on BrowseComp-ZH using a pipeline featuring AgentFounder and WebSailor for Agentic CPT and post-training. It supports a 128K context length and operates via native ReAct or Heavy Mode without prompt engineering.written, reviewed, cited
  • The team tested training directly on the BrowseComp testing set, but results were substantially poorer than using their synthetic data.
  • IterResearch deconstructs tasks into research rounds to avoid cognitive suffocation from accumulating all information into a single expanding context.
  • The Research-Synthesis framework uses multiple parallel Research Agents exploring a problem before a Synthesis Agent integrates their refined reports.
github.com2025-09-17authorityabout the Tongyi familyHN 4 pts · 0 comments1,017 words
Tongyi DeepResearch is an agentic large language model featuring 30.5 billion total parameters, with only 3.3 billion activated per token. The model demonstrates performance across benchmarks including Humanity's Last Exam, BrowseComp, BrowseComp-ZH, WebWalkerQA, xbench-DeepSearch, FRAMES and SimpleQA.generated, cited
reuters.com2023-09-13about the Tongyi familyHN 5 pts · 0 comments
tongyi-mai.github.io2025-11-27about the Tongyi familyHN 3 pts · 0 comments
scmp.com2023-09-13about the Tongyi familyHN 1 pts · 0 comments

Community1

old.reddit.com2024-07-15about the Tongyi familyHN 1 pts · 0 comments

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Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:46 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-14 14:08 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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