Qwen 3.5 Open Source: Multimodality and Efficiency

The open source release of the multimodal model Qwen 3.5-397B-A17B has been announced. This latest generation model is proposed as an efficient and natively multimodal solution.

The news was spread via a post on Reddit, in the LocalLLaMA subreddit, signaling the availability of the model and inviting the community to explore its capabilities. The open source release could favor the adoption and development of applications based on this model, especially in contexts where data sovereignty and control over the infrastructure are priorities. For those evaluating on-premise deployments, there are trade-offs that AI-RADAR analyzes in detail in the /llm-onpremise section.