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Feb 16, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Why Qwen3.5-Plus Sets a New Standard for Open-Source Multimodal AI

Qwen3.5-Plus, Alibaba’s newly open-sourced multimodal LLM, combines a 397 B parameter model with only 17 B active parameters, leveraging native multimodal training, gated attention, sparse MoE, and FP8 precision to outperform GPT-5.2 and Gemini-3-Pro across vision, reasoning, and agent benchmarks.