How Will Alibaba Group's Qwen3.5 Transform Agentic AI?
Alibaba Qwen 3.5: Open-Weight Multimodal AI for the Agentic Era What: Alibaba Qwen 3.5, unveiled February 16, 2026, is an open-weight agentic AI model with 397 billion parameters, native multimodal capabilities, and visual agentic features that let it independently control mobile and desktop apps. Why: It is 60% cheaper and up to 19× faster in throughput than its predecessor, outperforming GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro on internal benchmarks. How: Through a hybrid linear attention architecture, sparse mixture-of-experts, large-scale reinforcement learning, and support for 201 languages - available open-source under Apache 2.0 and as a hosted model on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. Trending Now: Qwen 3.5 Goes Viral Ahead of Chinese New Year Alibaba has rolled out Qwen 3.5 on the eve of Chinese New Year 2026, clearly signaling its ambition in the evolving AI race. Qwen 3.5 has gone viral, with the AI community on X, LinkedIn, and Reddit actively discussing s...