2 min learnNew DelhiMar 4, 2026 01:43 PM IST
AI corporations world wide are always engaged on newer, bigger and extra highly effective fashions, however Chinese language tech big Alibaba appears to be going the other approach. Just lately, the corporate unveiled 4 new small fashions beneath its Qwen 3.5 sequence.
These open-source massive language fashions, together with Qwen 3.5-0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B, are aimed toward builders searching for multimodal capabilities alongside sturdy reasoning efficiency.
Alibaba says all 4 fashions within the Qwen 3.5 sequence are constructed on the identical structure and might simply deal with each textual content and pictures. For each mannequin within the sequence, the corporate has launched a ‘base’ model that builders can fine-tune from scratch, together with an ‘instruct’ model that may be deployed instantly.
Nevertheless, the biggest and strongest within the sequence – Qwen 3.5-9B is getting essentially the most consideration. When it comes to benchmarks, Alibaba says the big language mannequin performs equally to the GPT-oSS-120B regardless of the scale distinction between the 2. The Chinese language tech big additionally claims that the mannequin’s efficiency is akin to AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini in a number of reasoning and knowledge-based assessments. In duties that contain logical reasoning, math problem-solving, and doc evaluation, the Qwen 3.5-9B performs equally to those a lot bigger AI chatbots.
On the opposite aspect of the spectrum, the Qwen 3.5-0.8B and 2B, two light-weight fashions which are designed to run on moveable gadgets like laptops and smartphones, the place computing energy is proscribed at finest. And whereas they aren’t as sturdy as different Qwen fashions in reasoning, Alibaba says they’ll simply course of each textual content and pictures.
The brand new Qwen 3.5 sequence fashions can be found on Hugging Face in addition to ModelScope with open weights, and could be downloaded and run domestically utilizing in style AI frameworks. Responding to a tweet, xAI head Elon Musk has mentioned that the brand new Qwen 3.5 sequence fashions have “spectacular intelligence density.”
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