Alibaba Group
has released its newest AI model series, featuring enhanced capabilities, as it faces intensifying competition in China’s AI space with several models launched in the past week.
The Qwen3.5 AI model comes in an open-weight version, which allows users to download, run, fine-tune, and deploy it on their own infrastructure. Alibaba also released a “hosted version,” meaning the model can run on Alibaba’s own servers.
Both models were made available on Monday, the eve of the Chinese New Year, and come just a week after Alibaba released a new AI model designed for robots.
The company highlighted that Qwen3.5 offers improvements in performance and cost and was built with “native multimodal capabilities,” enabling the models to understand text, images and video simultaneously within one system.
