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Caixin Global[4], 2 April 2026: "Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. on Thursday released Qwen 3.6-Plus" (2 April); Model Studio lists the launch snapshot qwen3.6-plus-2026-04-02, and OpenRouter[6] shows "Released Apr 2, 2026". Qwen's blog page is stamped 2026/04/01 and the Alibaba Cloud[3][5] Community repost 2 April.
Model Studio page: native vision-language Plus model with image, text and video input and text output, markedly better agentic coding, front-end and vibe coding than the 3.5 series; snapshot qwen3.6-plus-2026-04-02; function calling, structured outputs, web search and context caching; CNY 2 input and CNY 12 output per million tokens up to 256K input (CNY 8 and CNY 48 up to 1M).[1]
Alibaba's release: the model will be integrated into Wukong, its AI-native enterprise platform, and the Qwen[1] app; strengths in visual coding (screenshots and wireframes to front-end code), long-form video reasoning and repository-level engineering.
Caixin, 2 April 2026: Alibaba "on Thursday released Qwen[1] 3.6-Plus", pitched on agentic coding that breaks down tasks, writes and tests code and troubleshoots iteratively; native multimodal; available on Alibaba Cloud's[3][5] Bailian platform at CNY 2 per million input and CNY 12 per million output tokens; part of an effort to regain momentum in the AI race.
Repost of Qwen's[1] launch post: available immediately via API after the Qwen3.5 series in February, hosted on Model Studio with a 1M-token context by default, better agentic coding and multimodal perception, and built in response to community feedback on Qwen3.5-Plus; benchmark table against Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, Kimi K2.5, GLM5, Claude 4.5 Opus and Gemini 3 Pro.
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