Alibaba's Tongyi Lab has released Qwen3.6-27B, a 27-billion-parameter multimodal AI model under the Apache 2.0 license. It's designed to run on local hardware and claims to outperform Google's Gemma4-31B and even rival Anthropic's Claude 4.5 Opus in some benchmarks.
Intel has released three INT4-quantized versions of Alibaba's Wan 2.2 video AI model, compressing the weights to about a quarter of their original size using its AutoRound tool.
Alibaba Cloud's Bailian platform introduces a flat-rate monthly subscription for developers, offering access to multiple Chinese AI models for coding and image generation, starting at about $28 per seat.
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab released Fun-ASR 1.5, a speech recognition model that handles 30 languages and over 20 Chinese dialects with significantly improved accuracy.
Alibaba's new open-source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model uses a sparse MoE architecture to boost programming and multimodal abilities while keeping compute costs lower.
