Alibaba launches Qwen3.6-27B, an open-weight dense model with 27B parameters, saying it surpasses Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on major coding benchmarks (Qwen)

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Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-27B, an open-weight dense model that claims to outperform the larger MoE Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on major coding benchmarks.

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