Is It Really That Hard to Build a Trillion-Parameter AI Model?
Across today’s AI industry, both domestically and internationally, companies developing large language models are as common as clouds in the sky.
However, if you carefully examine their parameter scales, you’ll find that only a handful of AI companies worldwide truly possess the technology and capability to reach the trillion-parameter level.
So, what exactly does a trillion parameters mean?
Does it sound exaggerated and almost impossible to achieve?
Or is it just a matter of spending enough money to pile up computing power?
Today, let’s take Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max as an example to explore what kind of power lies behind the phrase “trillion parameters.”
Qwen3-Max is now available on DepolyAI’s official website, where you can experience firsthand the charm of a trillion-parameter model.
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What Are “Parameters”?
To understand “a trillion parameters,” we first need to know what “parameters” are.
In an AI model, parameters are like the weights connecting neurons in the human brain—they are the fundamental units the model uses to learn, reason, and generate language.
As the model reads vast amounts of text, images, and code, it constantly adjusts these parameters to “learn” the rules of language and the logic of the world.
Simply put: the more parameters a model has, the more knowledge it can store.
The more complex the model, the deeper its understanding of semantics, context, and reasoning.
Of course, having more parameters is not always better.
Expanding parameter scale also leads to exponential increases in energy consumption and engineering challenges!
How Was Qwen3-Max’s Trillion Parameters “Forged”?
Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max is one of China’s first large-scale models to officially enter the “Trillion-Parameter Club.”
It adopts a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, meaning that although its total parameter count reaches 1 trillion (1T), only tens to hundreds of billions of parameters are actually activated during a single inference.
This “sparse activation” mechanism allows the model to maintain powerful capabilities while avoiding unnecessary computational waste.
The Astonishing Energy Consumption of Trillion-Parameter Models
The entire training process of Qwen3-Max consumed as much electricity as thousands of households use in a year.
That’s why there are so few companies worldwide capable of developing trillion-parameter models—not because others don’t want to, but because most can’t afford it or can’t stabilize it.
Distributed Training Architecture
A single server simply cannot hold a model this large.
Therefore, Qwen3-Max uses a multi-machine, multi-GPU distributed training architecture, with efficient communication mechanisms that synchronize model parameters across tens of thousands of GPUs.
It’s like having thousands of people in different cities copying the same book simultaneously—fast, but without a single error allowed.
More Parameters Don’t Necessarily Mean More Intelligence
What truly matters is what data the model is fed.
Qwen3-Max is trained on high-quality, multilingual, carefully filtered and cleaned datasets, combined with instruction tuning and alignment training.
This enables it to not only possess vast knowledge but also understand context and semantics deeply—explaining why it excels in Chinese comprehension, logical reasoning, and code generation.
The Meaning of a Trillion Parameters Is More Than Just “Big”
In AI, piling up parameters is only the surface.
The true goal is to enable models to understand and generalize across broader knowledge spaces.
If a hundred-billion-parameter model has “learned to speak,” then a trillion-parameter model has “learned to think.”
Models like Qwen3-Max represent a key step for AI evolving from “can talk” to “can think.”
Finally, both Ling 1T and Qwen3-Max, two of the world’s trillion-parameter AI models, are now available for experience on DepolyAI’s official website.
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