Alibaba Qwen Unveils Open-Source 27B Coding Model
Alibaba's Qwen released Qwen3.6-27B, a 27 billion-parameter dense open-source AI model focused on coding, reasoning across text and multimodal tasks, and support for both thinking and non-thinking modes. The company said the model is available under an Apache 2.0 license.
Qwen said Qwen3.6-27B outperformed its larger Qwen3.5-397B-A17B model on major coding benchmarks despite being about 15 times smaller, with scores of 77.2 versus 76.2 on SWE-bench Verified, 53.5 versus 50.9 on SWE-bench Pro, 59.3 versus 52.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.0, and 48.2 versus 30.0 on SkillsBench.
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@scaling01RT @Alibaba_Qwen: 🚀 Meet Qwen3.6-27B, our latest dense, open-source model, packing flagship-level coding power! Yes, 27B, and Qwen3.6-27B…
@clementdelangueRT @Alibaba_Qwen: 🚀 Meet Qwen3.6-27B, our latest dense, open-source model, packing flagship-level coding power! Yes, 27B, and Qwen3.6-27B…
@clementdelangueRT @Ali_TongyiLab: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is trending at #1 on Hugging Face! 🥇🤗 Thank you for making us the top trending model on @huggingface thi…
@wesrothRT @WesRoth: Alibaba dropped an early look at its next flagship frontier model, Qwen3.6-Max-Preview. This serves as a significant upgrade o…
@alibaba_qwen🚀 Meet Qwen3.6-27B, our latest dense, open-source model, packing flagship-level coding power! Yes, 27B, and Qwen3.6-27B punches way above its weight. 👇 What's new: 🧠 Outstanding agentic coding — surpasses Qwen3.5-397B-A17B across all majo
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@zephyr_z9Qwen is releasing some killer dense models
@alibaba_qwenLM Performance：With only 27B parameters, Qwen3.6-27B outperforms the Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (397B total / 17B active, ~15x larger!) on every major coding benchmark — including SWE-bench Verified (77.2 vs. 76.2), SWE-bench Pro (53.5 vs. 50.9), Te