Alibaba Releases Qwen 3.5 Small Series for On-Device and Edge AI
Alibaba's Qwen team released four compact open-weight models (0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters) in the Qwen 3.5 family on March 1, 2026, optimized for local inference on smartphones, laptops, and other resource-constrained hardware while supporting native multimodal inputs.