{"id":94336,"date":"2026-02-16T17:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=94336"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:50:12","slug":"alibabas-cloud-division-launches-open-source-ai-model-qwen-3-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/alibabas-cloud-division-launches-open-source-ai-model-qwen-3-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba&#8217;s Cloud Division Launches Open-Source AI Model Qwen-3.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cloud division of Chinese tech giant Alibaba has unveiled a new open-source AI model, Qwen-3.5, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3343738\/alibaba-unveils-qwen-35-sharpening-global-race-spread-ai-models?module=top_story&#038;pgtype=section\">SCMP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two versions of the <span data-descr=\"large language model\" class=\"old_tooltip\">LLM<\/span> are now available in the Qwen app. The release coincides with the Lunar New Year.<\/p>\n<p>The flagship model demonstrates performance on par with leading advanced solutions and features a context window of 1 million tokens\u2014one of the largest in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Qwen-3.5-Open-Source boasts 397 billion parameters and a context window of 256,000 tokens.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Qwen has achieved native multimodality\u2014it understands text, images, audio, and video within a single system.<\/p>\n<p>The family employs a new architecture designed to enhance computational efficiency and reduce operational costs.<\/p>\n<p>Alibaba stated that Qwen 3.5 is 60% cheaper to use and handles large workloads eight times better than its predecessor. It has gained the ability to autonomously perform actions in mobile and desktop applications.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cCreated for the era of agentic AI, Qwen 3.5 helps developers and companies move faster and achieve more with the same computational resources, setting a new standard of efficiency per unit cost of <span data-descr=\"process of generating an output\" class=\"old_tooltip\">inference<\/span>,\u201d the company stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Qwen has gained widespread popularity due to the release of several versions for different developer and business tasks. The LLM has established itself as the \u201cstandard open model.\u201d In December, its downloads on Hugging Face surpassed the combined downloads of all other major open solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in January, Qwen-3 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/alibabas-qwen-3-ai-model-launched-into-space\">became the world&#8217;s first<\/a> AI model to be downloaded and operated in orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cloud division of Chinese tech giant Alibaba has unveiled a new open-source AI model, Qwen-3.5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Alibaba's cloud division unveils open-source AI model Qwen-3.5.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[640,438],"class_list":["post-94336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-alibaba","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"244","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Alibaba's cloud division unveils open-source AI model Qwen-3.5.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94337,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94336\/revisions\/94337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}