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Alibaba's New AI Model Runs 8x Faster While Sentiment Hits 60.6
Alibaba's Qwen3.5 model offers visual agentic functions, is 60% cheaper, and processes large workloads eight times faster, aiming to boost developer efficiency.
- Claiming major cost and speed gains, Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.5, which it said is 60pc cheaper to use and eight times better at processing large workloads.
- Alibaba built Qwen3.5 on a hybrid architecture with 397bn total parameters activating only 17bn per pass, which Alibaba said optimises speed.
- Adding visual agentic features, the model also ranks higher than OpenAI's GPT-5.2, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5, and Google's Gemini 3 Pro in several tests, reports say.
- Built for the agentic AI era, Qwen3.5 helps developers and enterprises move faster and do more with the same compute, while the agentic chatbot service has close to 200m users.
- Recently, other Chinese AI firms launched new models including Zhipu's GLM-5, MiniMax's M2.5, Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5, and ByteDance upgraded Doubao ahead of DeepSeek's V4 this month.
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Alibaba's New AI Model Runs 8x Faster While Sentiment Hits 60.6
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Alibaba is turning up the heat in China’s AI race. On Monday, the e-commerce giant introduced Qwen 3.5, its latest large language model built for what it calls the “agentic AI era.” The company says the new model can complete complex […] The post Alibaba launches Qwen 3.5, says new agentic AI model outperforms GPT-5.2, Claude and Gemini first appeared on Tech Startups.
The new model presents improved reasoning and agents' capabilities, besides processing images and videos better than their predecessors
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