# Alibaba — Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

- Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com)
- Announced: 2026-02-15T20:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Qwen
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Qwen3.5, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
- Context window: 1M context window
- Source: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.5
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4619-qwen3-5-towards-native-multimodal-agents

Alibaba releases Qwen3.5, an open-weight native vision-language model with 397B total parameters (17B activated), featuring hybrid linear attention and sparse MoE architecture, a 1M token context window, and support for 201 languages.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.5:

> We are delighted to announce the official release of Qwen3.5 , introducing the open-weight of the first model in the Qwen3.5 series, namely Qwen3.5-397B-A17B .

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