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Qwen

Apache-licensed open weights

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team builds multilingual, multimodal and agent-focused models across a wide range of deployable sizes.

Latest tracked open release

Qwen3.6 open family

The Qwen3.6 open family targets agentic coding with a dense 27B model and an efficient 35B-A3B mixture-of-experts model.

Released
22 April 2026
Licence
Apache 2.0
Dense model
Qwen3.6-27B
MoE model
35B total, 3B active
Context
Up to 262K tokens
Why it matters

Where Qwen stands out

  • Strong agentic coding
  • Efficient dense and MoE options
  • Broad local deployment support