Qwen

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Alibaba's Qwen model family — a broad range of open dense and MoE models plus the proprietary Max line, with strong multilingual and coding performance.

Glossary

Qwen 3.8-Max Qwen

Qwen 3.8-Max (August 2026) is Alibabas largest flagship — an MoE model with 2.4T parameters, a 1M-token context and multimodal input, later released with open weights.

Qwen 3.7-Max Qwen

Qwen 3.7-Max (May 2026) is Alibabas proprietary Max flagship with a 1M-token context, positioned as the "Agent Frontier" for long, tool-intensive agent workflows.

Qwen3-Max Qwen

Qwen3-Max is Alibaba's trillion-parameter flagship from September 2025 — a Mixture-of-Experts model with a 262K context that, unlike earlier Qwen models, is API-only.

Qwen 2.5 Qwen

Open model family from Alibaba, released in September 2024. It spans base sizes from 0.5B to 72B parameters plus Coder and Math variants; 128K context, multilingual. Smaller sizes under Apache 2.0, the 72B model under a dedicated Qwen license.

Qwen 3 Qwen

Qwen 3 is Alibabas family of open models released in April 2025. It ranges from 0.6B to 235B parameters (dense and MoE models), is licensed under Apache 2.0 and unites a thinking and a non-thinking mode in a single model.

Qwen 3.5 Qwen

Qwen 3.5 (February 2026) is Alibaba's third-generation open model family — from 0.8B to 397B parameters, MoE flagship with 1M-token context, multimodal.

Qwen 3.6 Qwen

Qwen 3.6 is Alibabas open-weights model from April 2026 — the dense 27B variant matches much larger MoE models on agentic coding benchmarks, under an Apache 2.0 license.