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Alibaba's newest omni-modal model ships closed

development2026-03-31

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Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni processes text, more than ten hours of audio, images and video but only through a proprietary API, marking a quiet Chinese retreat from open source.

Reporting date: 2026-03-31 (not necessarily the event date)

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Four-billion-parameter models match last generation's eighty

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Alibaba's newest omni-modal model ships closed
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Reporting date: 2026-03-31
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-03-31-qwen-retreats-from-open-source
Claim: Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni processes text, more than ten hours of audio, images and video but only through a proprietary API, marking a quiet Chinese retreat from open source.
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- Welcome to March 31, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-march-31-2026
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