Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its next-generation open artificial intelligence model, Qwen-3.5, in a move set to have major implications for the global AI race between China and the US.<\/p>\n
The much-anticipated release, timed on the eve of the Lunar New Year, capped a frenetic week in which nearly every major Chinese AI developer rolled out new flagship models.<\/p>\n
The two new 3.5-series models were made available on Alibaba\u2019s cloud platform Model Studio on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The new Qwen-3.5-Open-Source model with 397 billion parameters showed significant improvement over the company\u2019s previous flagship model, Qwen-3-Max-Thinking, despite the latter\u2019s much larger size of over 1 trillion parameters, according to self-reported benchmark scores.<\/p>\n
The model also boasted a performance on par with leading models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, the benchmarks showed, although the comparison was not with the three US heavyweights\u2019 latest models.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a closed-source version called Qwen-3.5-Plus achieved performance \u201con par with state-of-the-art leading models\u201d and has a listed context window \u2013 the amount of data it can process at any given time \u2013 of 1 million tokens, one of the largest in the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its next-generation open artificial intelligence model, Qwen-3.5, in a move set to have major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,2300,138,607,219,4431,263,111,43,139,69,2114,14095,2022,145,3040,377],"class_list":{"0":"post-286818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-asia","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-lifestyle","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-opinion","22":"tag-south-china-morning-post","23":"tag-sport","24":"tag-technology","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}