Alibaba's open Qwen 3.5 takes aim at GPT-5 mini and Claude Sonnet 4.5 at a fraction of the cost

By Matthias BastianFebruary 26, 2026Source: The Decoder2 views

$Alibaba's open Qwen 3.5 takes aim at GPT-5 mini and Claude Sonnet 4.5 at a fraction of the cost$

Alibaba has introduced the new Qwen 3.5 model series. It comprises four models: Qwen3.5-Flash, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B and Qwen3.5-27B. The article Alibaba's open Qwen 3.5 takes aim at GPT-5 mini and Claude Sonnet 4.5 at a fraction of the cost appeared first on The Decoder.

Alibaba has introduced the new Qwen 3.5 model series. It comprises four models: Qwen3.5-Flash, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B and Qwen3.5-27B.

The article Alibaba's open Qwen 3.5 takes aim at GPT-5 mini and Claude Sonnet 4.5 at a fraction of the cost appeared first on The Decoder.

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Key Terms Explained

Claude

Anthropic's family of AI assistants, including Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus.

Decoder

The part of a neural network that generates output from an internal representation.

GPT

Generative Pre-trained Transformer.