Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 Claims to Beat GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5 - and It's Open Source
Alibaba releases Qwen 3.5, a 397-billion-parameter open-weight model that claims to outperform US frontier models at a fraction of the cost.
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Alibaba Drops Qwen 3.5: 397B Parameters of Open-Source Power
Alibaba releases Qwen 3.5, a 397B parameter open-source multimodal model with 256K context, Apache 2.0 license, and performance that tops Python coding and math reasoning benchmarks.
Qwen 3 Review: Alibaba's Hybrid-Thinking Open-Source Champion
A detailed review of Alibaba's Qwen 3 model family, featuring hybrid thinking modes, 119 language support, MCP integration, and Apache 2.0 licensing.
