Qwen3.5 35B A3B

Name: Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Author: Alibaba

Alibaba

Qwen3.5 35B A3B is a lightweight MoE model from the Qwen3.5 series with 3 billion active parameters. Fast and efficient with reasoning support.

Key Specifications

Parameters

35.0B

Context

Release Date

March 1, 2026

Average Score

94.3%

API Documentation Repository Model Weights Results Blog

Timeline

Key dates in the model's history

Announcement

March 1, 2026

Last Update

March 21, 2026

Today

March 26, 2026

Technical Specifications

Parameters

35.0B

Training Tokens

Knowledge Cutoff

Family

Capabilities

MultimodalZeroEval

Benchmark Results

Model performance metrics across various tests and benchmarks

Multimodal

Working with images and visual data

AI2D

TEST • Self-reported

93.0%

Other Tests

Specialized benchmarks

CountBench

• Self-reported

98.0%

VLMsAreBlind

• Self-reported

97.0%

MMLU-Redux

• Self-reported

93.0%

With CI (best from options) • Self-reported

93.0%

IFEval

• Self-reported

92.0%

License & Metadata

License

apache-2.0

Announcement Date

March 1, 2026

Last Updated

March 21, 2026

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Articles about Qwen3.5 35B A3B

Qwen 3.5 Is Alibaba's Bid to Win the Agentic AI Era

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 family uses extreme MoE efficiency to beat models 7x its size. The flagship is now live on Arena — and claims to outperform GPT-5.2.

March 23, 2026

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