Alibaba releases open-source Qwen3.5 AI models beating OpenAI, Anthropic rivals; runs on consumer GPUs with 1M token context windows via hybrid architecture and 4-bit quantization.

Alibaba's new open source Qwen3.5 Medium model offers near Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

Alibaba's now famed Qwen AI development team has done it again: a little more than a day ago, they released the Qwen3.5 Medium Model series consisting of four new large language models (LLMs) with support for agentic tool calling, three of which are available for commercial usage by enterprises and indie developers under the standard open source Apache 2.0 license:Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Qwen3.5-27BDevelopers can download them now on Hugging Face and ModelScope. A fourth model, Qwen3.5...