Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Alibaba (Qwen)
multimodal LLM

Qwen3.6-27B

Alibaba's 27B dense model; base of Qwen-SEA-LION v4.5. Adapters 555, finetunes 411, merges 24, quants 743.

Benchmark bar charts for Qwen3.6-27B against other models.
Levelmodel
Classmultimodal LLM
Parameters27B
Context262,144
ReleasedApr 2026
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onconsumer GPU
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

vendor-reportedmaintainer-run
MMLU-Proknowledge and reasoning
vendor-reported
86.2
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

SEA-HELMSoutheast Asian and Indonesian
Indonesianmaintainer-run
77.96 95% CI [-1.22, +1.20]
04080

Score in index. Higher is better.

rank 2, SEA-HELM Indonesian18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
maintainer-run
77.96 95% CI [-1.22, +1.20]
04080

Score in score. Higher is better.

rank 2, SEA-HELM Indonesian, open-weight models, average of 2,000 bootstraps18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
maintainer-run
74.64 95% CI [-0.65, +0.60]
04080

Score in score. Higher is better.

SEA-HELM SEA average, open-weight models18 Sep 2026 leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
vendor-reported
77.2
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

distillfinetune
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B to Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-IT: distill, high confidenceQwen3.6-27B to Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-IT: distill, high confidenceQwen3.6-27B to Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-IT: finetune, high confidenceQwen3.5-397B-A17BQwen3.5-397B-A17BAlibaba (Qwen), Feb 2026Qwen3.6-27BQwen3.6-27BAlibaba (Qwen), Apr 2026Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-ITQwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-ITAI Singapore, May 2026
AI SingaporeQwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-IT is a child (distill)high confidencemodel card
AI SingaporeQwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-IT is a child (finetune)high confidencemodel card
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 3 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
Alibaba (Qwen)
Family
Qwen3.6
Released
Apr 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 Gated DeltaNet + Gated Attention, dense
Total parameters
27B sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
1.01M with YaRN
Context length
262,144 tokens
Input
text, image, video
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
consumer GPU
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
measured on a benchmark
  • SEA-HELM Indonesian leaderboard (ID aggregate, first score column of the Indonesian Competency and Task Scores table): 77.96 (95% CI -1.22 to +1.20), run by AI Singapore (SEA-HELM leaderboard maintainer) leaderboard.sea-lion.ai
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. Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B , Hugging Face huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B
  2. SEA-HELM Leaderboard leaderboard.sea-lion.ai/detailed/SEA https://leaderboard.sea-lion.ai/detailed/SEA
  3. SEA-HELM Leaderboard leaderboard.sea-lion.ai/detailed/ID https://leaderboard.sea-lion.ai/detailed/ID
  4. aisingapore/Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-IT , Hugging Face huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/aisingapore/Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-IT

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Qwen3.6-27B", https://aurion.semai.id/models/alibaba-qwen3-6-27b/, records of October 2026.