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Alibaba Launches Qwen 3.5 Open Models to Challenge GPT-5 Mini and Claude Sonnet 4.5
Key Takeaways
- Alibaba released four Qwen 3.5 models including Flash, 35B-A3B, 122B-A10B, and 27B variants
- The models use mixture-of-experts architecture to deliver high performance at lower compute cost
- Alibaba claims performance competitive with GPT-5 mini and Claude Sonnet 4.5
- All models are released as open weights, challenging the closed-source model paradigm
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DT Editorial Team··4 min read·via the-decoder.com