Alibaba unveils Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open-weight MoE model with 35B total and 3B active parameters, saying it rivals larger dense models in agentic coding tasks (Qwen)

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Alibaba released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open-weight MoE model with 35B total/3B active parameters that claims to match larger dense models on agentic coding tasks.

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