Worth noting that this model, unlike almost all qwen models, is not open-weight, nor is the parameter count exposed. Also odd that it is compared against opus 4.5 even though 4.6 was released like 2 months ago.

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pferdone 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They said in the last paragraph[0]:

"[...] In the coming days, we will also open-source smaller-scale variants, reaffirming our commitment to accessibility and community-driven innovation. [...]"

[0] https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6#summary--future-work

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deaux 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> we will also open-source smaller-scale variants

In other words, like GP said, this Qwen3.6-Plus model is not open-weight unlike the other Qwen models.

	▲	dgb23 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In a practical sense, I'm primarily interested in small to medium sized models being open. I think that might be common sentiment. However, my hope is that there will be at least somewhat competitive big and open models as well, from an ethical/ideological perspective. These things were trained on data that was provided by people without their consent, so they should at least be be publicly accessible or even public domain.
	▲	thepasch 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Qwen3.5-Plus is the largest variant of the open weight Qwen3.5 model, expanded with a 1M context window and fine-tuned on the Qwen-native harness’ specific tools.
	▲	pferdone 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> unlike almost all qwen models Almost all means there have been ones before that were not open. So, no contradiction there.
	▲	kennywinker 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> unlike the other Qwen models Please send the download link for qwen 3.5-plus. Also, who cares? If you have the hardware to run a ~400b model i don’t think you count as a home user anymore.

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cpburns2009 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If Opus 4.6 was only released two months ago, then it seems reasonable that Qwen hasn't finished fully comparing against the latest Opus.

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zozbot234 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wouldn't say "almost all" seeing as -MAX and -Omni models were always closed.

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