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Alibaba's new open source Qwen3.5-Medium models offer 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-Flash, appears to be proprietary and only available through the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API, but still offers a strong advantage in cost compared to other models in the West (see pricing comparison table below). But the big twist with the open source models is that they offer comparably hi [...]

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Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops

Despite political turmoil in the U.S. AI sector, in China, the AI advances are continuing apace without a hitch.Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused prim [...]

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Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost

Alibaba dropped Qwen3.5 earlier this week, timed to coincide with the Lunar New Year, and the headline numbers alone are enough to make enterprise AI buyers stop and pay attention.The new flagship ope [...]

Match Score: 266.49

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Anthropic's Sonnet 4.6 matches flagship AI performance at one-fifth the cost, accelerating enterprise adoption

Anthropic on Tuesday released Claude Sonnet 4.6, a model that amounts to a seismic repricing event for the AI industry. It delivers near-flagship intelligence at mid-tier cost, and it lands squarely i [...]

Match Score: 242.75

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Qwen3-Max Thinking beats Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 on Humanity's Last Exam (with search)

Chinese AI and tech firms continue to impress with their development of cutting-edge, state-of-the-art AI language models.Today, the one drawing eyeballs is Alibaba Cloud's Qwen Team of AI resear [...]

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Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? Key figures depart in wake of latest open source release

Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers have been among the most prolific and well-regarded by international machine learning community — shipping dozens of powerful generalized and specialized g [...]

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Qwen3-Coder-Next offers vibe coders a powerful open source, ultra-sparse model with 10x higher throughput for repo tasks

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers has emerged in the last year as one of the global leaders of open source AI development, releasing a host of powerful large language [...]

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Anthropic is giving away its powerful Claude Haiku 4.5 AI for free to take on OpenAI

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 on Wednesday, a smaller and significantly cheaper artificial intelligence model that matches the coding capabilities of systems that were considered cutting-edge ju [...]

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What to be thankful for in AI in 2025

Hello, dear readers. Happy belated Thanksgiving and Black Friday!This year has felt like living inside a permanent DevDay. Every week, some lab drops a new model, a new agent framework, or a new “th [...]

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Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has cap [...]

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