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On December 4th, Alibaba's Qwen APP officially launched Qwen3-Learning, a large learning model based on Qwen3 training, targeting K-12 students and teachers. It offers two core functions: "photo problem-solving and answer checking" and "homework correction," all free of charge with no limit on usage frequency. The official stated that it is on par with paid services from OpenAI and Google in multiple educational benchmarks, but users can use it unlimited times without subscription.
Multi-language photo problem-solving: One-click identification of curricula from 30 countries
Qwen3-Learning supports photo uploads, and the system can complete question recognition and step-by-step explanation within 2 seconds, covering curricula from over 30 countries including China, the UK, France, and Spain, as well as past exam questions from the last ten years. In testing, the accuracy rate for math, physics, and chemistry was 92%, and it provides knowledge point tracing and extension exercises, forming a "answer → explanation → consolidation" loop.
Page-level homework correction: Full recognition of handwriting and printed text
All subjects' homework and exams from primary to high school can be photographed in full pages. The model automatically grades the work, generates reports on weak points, and provides error video explanations. Alibaba revealed that Qwen3-Learning achieved an F1 score of 96.4% on the Chinese handwriting recognition benchmark HWR-14, and its grading speed is eight times faster than that of teachers manually correcting papers.
Free strategy disrupting the market
Currently, similar products mostly adopt a "first N times free + subscription to unlock" model. Qwen3-Learning, however, claims to be permanently free with unlimited usage. Alibaba stated that costs are spread through edge-side distillation and cloud-side elastic GPU pools, with a single-question inference cost of less than 0.003 yuan, so "it can continue operating without relying on subscriptions."
Another milestone in the education ecosystem