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Qwen3.5-397B-A17B

Active Parameters

397B

Context Length

262K

Modality

Multimodal

Architecture

Mixture of Experts (MoE)

License

Apache 2.0

Release Date

24 Feb 2026

Knowledge Cutoff

-

System Requirements

VRAM requirements for different quantization methods and context sizes

1,024 tokens

835.33 GB VRAM

Consumer

47x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

13x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

10x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

262,144 tokens

869.02 GB VRAM

Consumer

49x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

13x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

10x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

Architecture Diagram

Input TokensToken EmbeddingPosition: RoPEHidden: 4.1k · Context: 262K · Vocab: 248.3kx 60 layersRMSNormPre-AttentionGrouped-Query Attention32Q / 2KV headsHead dim: 256+RMSNormPre-FFNSparse MoE FFN (11/512 experts)SwiGLUIntermediate: 1k+Final RMSNormOutput Logits

Evaluation Benchmarks

Rank

#44

BenchmarkScoreRank

0.763

14

Web Development

WebDev Arena

1399

55

General Text

Text Arena

1442

59

Rankings

Overall Rank

#44

Coding Rank

#35

About Qwen3.5-397B-A17B

Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is Alibaba Cloud's largest and most capable multimodal foundation model, released February 2026. With 397B total parameters and 17B activated through a Mixture-of-Experts architecture (512 experts), it achieves state-of-the-art scores on MMLU-Pro (87.8%), GPQA Diamond (88.4%), SWE-bench Verified (80.0%), and Terminal-Bench 2.0 (54.0%). It features unified vision-language capabilities, extended context up to 1M tokens, and excels in coding agents, general agents, multimodal reasoning, and multilingual understanding across 201 languages.

Technical Specifications

Attention

Attention Structure

Grouped-Query Attention

Attention Heads

32

Key-Value Heads

2

Attention Head Dimension

256

Position Embedding

ROPE

RoPE Theta

10,000,000

Sliding Window Attention

No

Sliding Window Size

-

Sliding Window Ratio

-

Linear Attention

Yes

Linear Attention Ratio

75.0%

Normalization

RMS Normalization

Activation Function

SwigLU

Dimensions

Hidden Dimension Size

4,096

Number of Layers

60

FFN Intermediate Size (Dense)

1,024

Multi-Token Prediction Heads

1

Tokenizer

Vocabulary Size

248,320

Mixture of Experts

Total Expert Parameters

17.0B

Number of Experts

512

Active Experts

11

Shared Experts

-

FFN Intermediate Size (per Expert)

1,024

Dense Layers Before MoE

-

About Qwen 3.5

Qwen 3.5 is Alibaba Cloud's latest-generation foundation model family, released February 2026. It represents a significant leap forward, integrating breakthroughs in multimodal learning (unified vision-language foundation), efficient hybrid architecture (Gated Delta Networks with sparse Mixture-of-Experts), scalable reinforcement learning across million-agent environments, and global linguistic coverage spanning 201 languages. Available under Apache 2.0 license with open weights.


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