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Alibaba's free Qwen3.5 signals that China's open-weight model race is far from slowing down
Alibaba's free Qwen3.5 signals that China's open-weight model race is far from slowing down

Chinese AI labs keep shipping new models at a rapid clip. Today it's Alibaba's turn with Qwen3.5, which tries to match top Western models using a hybrid architecture that combines linear attention and mixture-of-experts while keeping just 17 billion parameters active per query. And yes, it's open weight.
The article Alibaba's free Qwen3.5 signals that China's open-weight model race is far from slowing down appeared first on The Decoder.

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