
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: The Open Model Offering Heavyweight Intelligence at Featherweight Costs
Alibaba has just released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a 'Mixture-of-Experts' AI model that performs like giant 30B models but runs on modest hardware using the compute of a 3B model. We analyze its agentic capabilities and the innovative 'Thinking Preservation'.




