Qwen3.5-9B
Parameters
9B
Context Length
262.144K
Modality
Multimodal
Architecture
Dense
License
Apache 2.0
Release Date
24 Feb 2026
Knowledge Cutoff
-
Technical Specifications
Attention Structure
Grouped-Query Attention
Hidden Dimension Size
4096
Number of Layers
32
Attention Heads
16
Key-Value Heads
4
Activation Function
SwigLU
Normalization
RMS Normalization
Position Embedding
ROPE
Qwen3.5-9B
Qwen3.5-9B is Alibaba Cloud's efficient multimodal foundation model with 9B parameters, released February 2026. It uses a hybrid architecture combining Gated Delta Networks and Gated Attention in an 8×(3×DeltaNet→FFN→1×Attention→FFN) pattern. It achieves strong scores on MMLU-Pro (82.5%), GPQA Diamond (81.7%), HMMT benchmarks (90%/90%), and LiveCodeBench v6 (82.7%). Features unified vision-language capabilities, 262k native context (extensible to 1M), multi-token prediction training, and excels in multimodal reasoning, coding, agents, and multilingual tasks across 201 languages.
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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Context Size: 1,024 tokens