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Public story · 2026-03-02 · source-backed
Alibaba released Qwen3.5-0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B — all natively multimodal (text+image+video from same weights, no adapter), 262K context, Apache 2.0. The 9B beats last-gen Qwen3-30B across the board and outperforms GPT-5-Nano by 13 points on MMMU-Pro. Architecture uses Gated DeltaNet hybrid (3:1 linear-to-softmax attention) for constant-memory context scaling. Critical PSA: these models require bf16 KV cache — f16 produces broken outputs (120-upvote warning thread). Biggest local-model launch day since the Qwen 3.5 flagship. r/LocalLLaMA
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