Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B's competitors have been quietly putting in work.
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B's competitors have been quietly putting in work.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is an open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters per token. It uses a hybrid sparse mixture-of-experts architecture combining Gated DeltaNet linear attention with standard gated attention layers, enabling efficient inference at a fraction of the compute cost. The model supports a 262K token native context window (extensible to 1M via YaRN) and accepts text, image, and video inputs. It includes integrated thinking mode with reasoning traces preserved across multi-turn conversations, function calling, and structured output. Released under the Apache 2.0 license.
fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b" model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!" messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.
Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.
Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.
Average words per sentence.
"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.
**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.
Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.
Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.
Emoji per 1,000 characters.
"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.
53 outputs · $0.55 tracked across 53 receipts
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is an open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters per token. It uses a hybrid sparse mixture-of-experts architecture combining Gated DeltaNet linear attention with standard gated attention layers, enabling efficient inference at a fraction of the compute cost. The model supports a 262K token native context window (extensible to 1M via YaRN) and accepts text, image, and video inputs. It includes integrated thinking mode with reasoning traces preserved across multi-turn conversations, function calling, and structured output. Released under the Apache 2.0 license.
fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b" model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!" messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.
Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.
Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.
Average words per sentence.
"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.
**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.
Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.
Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.
Emoji per 1,000 characters.
"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.
53 outputs · $0.55 tracked across 53 receipts