Qwen Releases 35B Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Model, Keeps Open-Source Pressure On

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a sparse mixture-of-experts model that activates only 3 billion parameters per token from a 35B total — continuing China's aggressive open-source AI push.

The Qwen team at Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) model that uses only 3 billion active parameters per forward pass despite having 35 billion total parameters. As @koltregaskes noted, the architecture enables performance competitive with much larger dense models while keeping inference costs low.

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