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February 2026

eWeek

Alibaba Launches Qwen3.5 AI Model With 60% Lower Costs, 8x Throughput

Alibaba launches Qwen3.5, a 397B-parameter AI model built for agents, claiming 60% lower costs, 8x throughput, and expanded multimodal capabilities. The post Alibaba Launches Qwen3.5 AI Model With 60% Lower Costs, 8x Thro

Feb 17, 2026
Computer World

Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 targets enterprise agent workflows with expanded multimodal support

Aliba

Feb 17, 2026
FirstPost

Alibaba unveils new Qwen3.5 model for 'agentic AI era'

Alibaba claims Qwen3.5 was 60 per cent cheaper to use and eight times better at processing large workloads than its immediate predecessor, adding that the model also came with the ability to independently take actions across mobile and desktop apps, or what the company calls "visual agentic capabili

Feb 17, 2026
Simon Willison's Weblog

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents Alibaba's Qwen just released the first two models in the Qwen 3.5 series - one open weights, one proprietary. Both are multi-modal for vision input. The open weight one is a Mixture

Feb 17, 2026
CNBCMajor Publication

Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 as China’s chatbot race shifts to AI agents

Qwen3 is Alibaba's latest large language model, which it says combines traditional LLM capabilities with "advanced, dynamic reasoning." Alibaba Group has released its newest AI model series, featuring enhanced capabilities, as it faces intensifying competition in China's AI space with several model

Feb 17, 2026
TechBuzz

Alibaba Launches Qwen3.5 with AI Agent Tech in China Race

Alibaba's new Qwen3.5 model brings agentic AI capabilities as Chinese tech giants pivot

Feb 17, 2026
SiliconAngle

Alibaba releases multimodal Qwen3.5 mixture of experts model

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today released an artificial intelligence model that it says can outperform GPT-5.2 and Claude 4.5 Opus at some tasks. The new algorithm, Qwen3.5, is available on Hugging Face under an open-source license. By default, Qwen3.5 is capable of processing prompts with up to

Feb 16, 2026
The Decoder

Alibaba's free Qwen3.5 signals that China's open-weight model race is far from slowing down

<img alt="Banner &#039;Qwen 3.5 Open-source Release&#039; with teddy bear, key and glowing AI icons for efficiency, multimodality and global scalability." class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="1080" src="https://the-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/qwen-3.5banner.jpg" styl

Feb 16, 2026
SiliconRepublic

Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 with visual agentic abilities

Qwen3.5 is 60pc cheaper to use and eight times better at processing large workloads, the company said. Read more: Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 with visual agentic abilities</a

Feb 16, 2026
EconomicTimes - IndiaTimes

Alibaba unveils new Qwen3.5 model for 'agentic AI era'

The release comes as Alibaba looks to attract more users to its Qwen chatbot app in China, a landscape currently dominated by rival tech ‌giant ByteDance's ⁠Doubao and ⁠DeepSeek, which became the first Chinese AI firm to break through globally last year.

Feb 16, 2026
Cybernews

Alibaba unveils new Qwen3.5 model for 'agentic AI era' - Reuters

Alibaba unveils n

Feb 16, 2026
Yahoo Finance

Alibaba unveils new Qwen3.5 model for 'agentic AI era'

BEIJING, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Alibaba on Monday unveiled a new artificial intelligence model Qwen 3.5 designed to execute complex tasks independently, with big improvements in performance and cost that

Feb 16, 2026