Re-read that

You should. 3.5 MoE was worse than 3.5 dense, so expecting 3.6 MoE to be superior than 3.5 dense is questionable, one could argue that 3.6 dense (not yet released) to be superior than 3.5 dense.

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spuz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Ok but you made a claim about the new model by stating a fact about the old model. It's easy to see how you appeared to be talking about different things. As for the claim, Qwen do indeed say that their new 3.6 MoE model is on a par with the old 3.5 dense model:

> Despite its efficiency, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B delivers outstanding agentic coding performance, surpassing its predecessor Qwen3.5-35B-A3B by a wide margin and rivaling much larger dense models such as Qwen3.5-27B.

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b

	▲	storus 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This says a slightly different thing: https://x.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2044768734234243427?s=48&t... If you look, at many benchmarks the old dense model is still ahead but in couple benchmarks the new 35B demolishes the old 27B. "rivaling" so YMMV.