Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-27B under Apache 2.0
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Released Qwen3.6-27B under Apache 2.0 — SWE-bench Verified 77.2%
Why it matters
A dense 27B beat its 397B MoE predecessor, and the center of gravity of truly open models moved down to the 30B class
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Pressremio.aihttps://www.remio.ai/post/qwen3-6-open-source-model-beats-a-397b-giant-while-alibaba-quietly-closes-weights-on-its-flagshiAdded in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
On the map — ⑨ Open-Weight Lineage line
- Previous stopKimi K2 Thinking
- This recordQwen3.6-27B
- Next stopK-EXAONE 2.0
In the model family tree — Qwen family · 13 versions
- Earlier versionQwen3.5-Omni
- This recordQwen3.6-27B
- Later versionQwen3.8-2.4T-A95B