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Key points

• •Alibaba has launched Qwen 3.5, a new version of its large AI model, designed for the era of AI agents.
• •Qwen 3.5 is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks for businesses and developers, with a cloud version, Qwen3.5-Plus, for large-scale uses.
• •Qwen 3.5 offers performance improvements and is 60% cheaper to use than Qwen 3, with a hybrid architecture that activates only a fraction of its parameters for each request.
• •Qwen 3.5 is a multimodal model that understands text, images, and videos, with the ability to analyze sequences up to approximately two hours.
• •Alibaba highlights the agentic AI capabilities of Qwen 3.5, which can integrate with environments like OpenClaw to automate software research and development tasks.
• •Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have launched voucher and "red envelope" cash campaigns to promote their chatbots to the general public.