AI Engineering

Mar 3, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba Qwen‑3.5 Small Models: 0.8B Parameters Enable Video on Edge Devices

Alibaba released four Qwen‑3.5 models (0.8B‑9B) that use a Gated DeltaNet hybrid‑attention architecture and native multimodal training to achieve 262k‑token contexts, outperform larger rivals on visual, reasoning, and math benchmarks, and run video analysis on phones and laptops, though they still demand significant VRAM.