
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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