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Story summary
- Alibaba's Cloud Division released the open-source AI model Qwen-3.5.
- Qwen-3.5 has 397 billion parameters and a 256,000-token context window.
- The model is 60% cheaper to use and handles workloads eight times better than its predecessor.
- The release comes amid the China–U.S. AI competition.
- Its performance is comparable to leading OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind systems, though not against their latest versions.
