Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
LLMfamily

Qwen3.5

Alibaba's Qwen3.5 family, Apache 2.0, hybrid DeltaNet architecture; card claims 201 languages.

Alibaba (Qwen)
Levelfamily
ClassLLM
Parametersnot in the notes
Context262,000
Released2 Mar 2026
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

vendor-reportedmaintainer-run
GPQAknowledge and reasoning
Qwen3.5-397B-A17Bvendor-reported
88.4
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

GPQA Diamondknowledge and reasoning
Qwen3.5-9BNot independently verifiedvendor-reported
81.7
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

MMLU-Proknowledge and reasoning
Qwen3.5-9BNot independently verifiedvendor-reported
82.5
Qwen3.5-4BNot independently verifiedvendor-reported
79.1
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

SEA-HELMSoutheast Asian and Indonesian
Qwen3.5-122B-A10BIndonesianmaintainer-run
77.93 95% CI [-1.29, +1.25]
04080

Score in index. Higher is better.

rank 3, SEA-HELM Indonesian18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
Qwen3.5-122B-A10Bmaintainer-run
77.93 95% CI [-1.29, +1.25]
rank 3, SEA-HELM Indonesian, open-weight models, average of 2,000 bootstraps18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BCheckpoint Qwen3.5-35B-A3B as listed; release view (data last updated 18 Sep 2026); score is the average of 2000 bootstrapsmaintainer-run
77.55 95% CI [-1.18, +1.21]
SEA-HELM leaderboard, 58 models, Indonesian (ID)18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
Qwen3.5-122B-A10Bmaintainer-run
74.66 95% CI [-0.64, +0.61]
rank 2, SEA-HELM SEA average, open-weight models18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
Qwen3.5-9BCheckpoint Qwen3.5-9B as listed; release view (data last updated 18 Sep 2026); score is the average of 2000 bootstrapsmaintainer-run
74.23 95% CI [-1.29, +1.28]
SEA-HELM leaderboard, 58 models, Indonesian (ID)18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BCheckpoint Qwen3.5-35B-A3B as listed; release view (data last updated 18 Sep 2026); score is the average of 2000 bootstrapsmaintainer-run
73.55 95% CI [-0.62, +0.60]
SEA-HELM leaderboard, 58 models, SEA average18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
Qwen3.5-4BCheckpoint Qwen3.5-4B as listed; release view (data last updated 18 Sep 2026); score is the average of 2000 bootstrapsmaintainer-run
69.66 95% CI [-1.30, +1.32]
SEA-HELM leaderboard, 58 models, Indonesian (ID)18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
Qwen3.5-9BCheckpoint Qwen3.5-9B as listed; release view (data last updated 18 Sep 2026); score is the average of 2000 bootstrapsmaintainer-run
69.13 95% CI [-0.64, +0.63]
SEA-HELM leaderboard, 58 models, SEA average18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
Qwen3.5-4BCheckpoint Qwen3.5-4B as listed; release view (data last updated 18 Sep 2026); score is the average of 2000 bootstrapsmaintainer-run
63.82 95% CI [-0.65, +0.64]
04080

Score in score. Higher is better.

SEA-HELM leaderboard, 58 models, SEA average18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
Qwen3.5-397B-A17Bvendor-reported
76.4
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.5 small (0.8B, 2B, 4B, 9B) belongs to this familymultimodal LLM2 Mar 2026
Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.5-0.8B belongs to this familymultimodal LLM2 Mar 2026800M
Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.5-2B belongs to this familymultimodal LLM2 Mar 20262B
Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.5-35B-A3B belongs to this familyLLM2 Mar 202635B
Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.5-4B belongs to this familymultimodal LLM2 Mar 20264B
Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.5-9B belongs to this familymultimodal LLM2 Mar 20269B
Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.5-122B-A10B belongs to this familymultimodal LLMFeb 2026122B
Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3.5-397B-A17B belongs to this familymultimodal LLMFeb 2026397B
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
Alibaba (Qwen)
Family
not in the notes
Released
2 Mar 2026 sourcesnotes
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
hybrid Hybrid Gated DeltaNet plus full attention
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
262,000 tokens
Input
text
Output
text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights permissive
Licence
Apache License 2.0 sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. Qwen3.5 - a Qwen Collection huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen35
  2. Qwen 3.5 Small Models: 9B Parameters That Beat 120B rits.shanghai.nyu.edu https://rits.shanghai.nyu.edu/ai/qwen-3-5-small-models-9b-parameters-that-beat-120b

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Qwen3.5", https://aurion.semai.id/models/alibaba-qwen3-5/, records of October 2026.