> 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.

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.

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.

> unlike almost all qwen models

Almost all means there have been ones before that were not open. So, no contradiction there.

> 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.