Qwen Released March 10, 2026 Synced Apr 7, 2026

Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B

Qwen3.5-9B is a multimodal foundation model from the Qwen3.5 family, designed to deliver strong reasoning, coding, and visual understanding in an efficient 9B-parameter architecture. It uses a unified vision-language design...

Tool useVisionReasoning

Why it stands out

262K-token context window handles longer documents and multi-turn conversations without truncation.

Combines tool use with reasoning — a strong baseline for agentic and multi-step workflows.

Multimodal input (vision) extends it beyond text-only workflows.

$0.1/M input makes it practical for always-on agents, batch processing, or high-volume classification.

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Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B entered the tracked catalog

March 10, 2026

Qwen3.5-9B is a multimodal foundation model from the Qwen3.5 family, designed to deliver strong reasoning, coding, and visual understanding in an efficient 9B-parameter architecture. It uses a unified vision-language design with early fusion of multimodal tokens, allowing the model to process and reason across text and images within the same context.

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Qwen launched Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B

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