Qwen3.5-Flash
Qwen3.5-Flash is Alibaba's hosted production model with 1M context, built-in tools, and multimodal support at $0.10/M input tokens - one of the cheapest frontier-tier APIs available.
Qwen
Alibaba Drops Qwen3.5: 397B Parameters, 17B Active, and It Trades Blows with GPT-5.2
Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with native multimodal support and a hybrid attention architecture that runs 8x faster than its predecessor. Apache 2.0 licensed.
A Group of College Students Distilled Claude, GPT, and Gemini Into Open-Source Models for $52
TeichAI, a four-person non-profit, generated 250 reasoning samples from Claude Opus 4.5, fine-tuned open-weight models on the result, and racked up 67,000 downloads. The legal and technical implications are more interesting than the benchmarks.
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.
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.
