August 16, 2026

Alibaba's new open source Qwen3.5-Medium models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

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Alibaba's now famed Qwen AI development team has done it again: a little more than a day ago, they released the Qwen3.5 Medium Model series consisting of four new large language models (LLMs) with support for agentic tool calling, three of which...