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Alibaba releases the open-weight Qwen3.5 Small Model Series in 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes, claiming the 9B model rivals OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on some benchmarks

VentureBeat Carl Franzen

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  • @alibaba_qwen @alibaba_qwen on x
    🚀 Introducing the Qwen 3.5 Small Model Series Qwen3.5-0.8B · Qwen3.5-2B · Qwen3.5-4B · Qwen3.5-9B ✨ More intelligence, less compute. These small models are built on the same Qwen3.5 foundation — native multimodal, improved architecture, scaled RL: • 0.8B / 2B → tiny, fast, [image…
  • @justinlin610 Junyang Lin on x
    final shot. these are the small models that i told u!
  • @karankendre Karan on x
    Me realising I can run these models locally on my M1 MacBook Air for free [video]
  • @ollama @ollama on x
    The Qwen 3.5 small model series is now available ollama run qwen3.5:9b ollama run qwen3.5:4b ollama run qwen3.5:2b ollama run qwen3.5:0.8b All models support native tool calling, thinking, and multimodal capabilities in Ollama.
  • @elonmusk Elon Musk on x
    @Alibaba_Qwen Impressive intelligence density
  • @udiwertheimer Udi Wertheimer on x
    china just mogged @AlexFinn they waited for him to spend his life savings on 317 mac studios with a combined 4.7 petabytes of vram and then they released frontier models that are small enough to run on a single potato
  • @cherry_cc12 Chen Cheng on x
    We just dropped the Qwen3.5 Small series — 0.8B / 2B / 4B / 9B 🚀 Small doesn't mean limited anymore. Would love to hear what you build with them 👀
  • @itspaulai Paul Couvert on x
    How is this even possible?! Qwen has released 4 new models and the 4B version is almost as capable as the previous 80B A3B one 🤯 And the 9B is as good as GPT OSS 120B while being 13x smaller! - They can run on any laptop - 0.8B and 2B for your phone - Offline and open source
  • @alexfinn Alex Finn on x
    Do you understand what this means? Are you aware how much the world just changed? You can now run frontier intelligence on a potato Your $600 Mac Mini can now run unlimited super intelligence for free. No authoritarian AI companies can cut you off Do this immediately, no
  • @adrgrondin Adrien Grondin on x
    The new Qwen 3.5 by @Alibaba_Qwen running on-device on iPhone 17 Pro. Qwen 3.5 beats models 4 times its size, has strong visual understanding, and can toggle reasoning on or off. The 2B 6-bit model here is running with MLX optimized for Apple Silicon. [video]
  • @abhijitwt Abhijit on x
    finally, we can run an LLM locally on a 1GB RAM old laptop for free [video]
  • @cgtwts @cgtwts on x
    Qwen 3.5 Small models - fully open source - beats models 4x it's size - 9B model performs on par with GPT OSS 120B while being 13x smaller - outperforms Gemini 3 flash and Claude sonnet 4.5 on select benchmarks - runs on any laptop - even works on a phone - completely free. [vide…
  • @slow_developer Haider on x
    INCREDIBLE qwen just dropped 4 new qwen3.5 small models: 0.8b, 2b, 4b, and 9b. looking at the benchmarks, they're now matching gemini 3 flash and sonnet 4/4.5 in about half the tests, even on vision this is a big deal. because you can now run them locally, and they're good [image…