r/LocalLLaMA Demands Qwen 3.6-397B-A17B Open Weights: 'Substantial Improvement Over 3.5 for Real World Tasks'

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A 210-upvote post calls for Alibaba to open-source the full Qwen 3.6-397B-A17B model, with the poster reporting it outperforms GLM-5.1 and Kimi-k2.5 on real-world tasks despite benchmarks not showing it. Qwen 3.6-Plus launched April 2 as API-only with 1M context and agentic coding capabilities, but the community wants the weights. The free OpenRouter preview reportedly ended April 3, increasing urgency for self-hosting options.