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Which Way Is the Wind Blowing? How to Balance Geopolitics and Heavy Capex Investment
Oct 08, 2026 05:15 PM
On February 25, following the open-sourcing of Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on Lunar New Year’s Eve, Alibaba (阿里巴巴) continued to expand its Qwen 3.5 family by releasing three new mid-sized models: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, and Qwen3.5-27B.
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According to the company, the three newly released Qwen3.5 models set new performance highs within the mid-size model category, outperforming larger previous-generation flagship models such as Qwen3-235B-A22B and Qwen3-VL. Across multiple benchmarks, their performance is reported to be significantly better than GPT-5 mini.
Meanwhile, the hosted model Qwen3.5-Flash, built on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, has been launched on Alibaba Cloud’s Bailian platform, with input pricing as low as RMB 0.2 per million tokens.
Which Way Is the Wind Blowing? How to Balance Geopolitics and Heavy Capex Investment
Oct 08, 2026 05:15 PM