Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5 Is Coming… Very Soon. Get Ready.

The Qwen series from Alibaba continues to make waves in the open-source AI world, and excitement is building for the next major release: Qwen 3.5.

Recent reports and developer activity indicate that Alibaba is gearing up to launch Qwen 3.5 very soon — potentially within weeks, as pull requests for model integration have appeared on platforms like Hugging Face, sparking speculation about an imminent drop. Industry insiders and sources like The Information have highlighted plans for this flagship update, optimized for complex reasoning, advanced math, coding, and native multimodal capabilities (including vision understanding).

This follows the strong performance of earlier Qwen3 variants (like Qwen3-Max and Qwen3-Next in 2025), which have pushed boundaries in efficiency, context handling, and benchmarks — often rivaling or surpassing top closed models. Qwen 3.5 is expected to build on the refined Qwen3-Next architecture, delivering even better results in agentic tasks, longer contexts, and real-world applications.

The AI community is buzzing about what could be a game-changer in the ongoing global race, especially from China's open-weight leaders.

For the latest updates, benchmarks, expected features, and timeline tracking, keep an eye on the dedicated tracker: qwen35.xyz — it's a great resource to stay ahead of the announcement.

What do you think — will Qwen 3.5 set a new bar for open models? 🚀