pretext5d ago

Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6

Qwen

Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

Show threadjgbuddy5d ago
Worth noting that this model, unlike almost all qwen models, is not open-weight, nor is the parameter count exposed. Also odd that it is compared against opus 4.5 even though 4.6 was released like 2 months ago.
Show threadpferdone5d ago

They said in the last paragraph[0]:

"[...] In the coming days, we will also open-source smaller-scale variants, reaffirming our commitment to accessibility and community-driven innovation. [...]"

[0] https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6#summary--future-work

Qwen

Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

Show threaddeaux5d ago

> we will also open-source smaller-scale variants

In other words, like GP said, this Qwen3.6-Plus model is not open-weight unlike the other Qwen models.

Show threadkennywinker

> unlike the other Qwen models

Please send the download link for qwen 3.5-plus.

Also, who cares? If you have the hardware to run a ~400b model i don’t think you count as a home user anymore.

Apr 2 at 3:10pmWeb