Alibaba launches Qwen3.5 with open-weight and hosted versions

The trade dispute between the US and China is having an effect somewhere else. While the US is doing its best to control homegrown technology by imposing tariffs and other measures, tech companies in China are looking to become self-reliant. Among them is China’s largest retail giant, Alibaba, which already has released its Qwen AI model. From time to time, all these companies upgrade their AI models for better performance and versatility. Well, Alibaba has also done that, as it just released the latest model, Qwen3.5. At a time when agentic AI tools are getting massive attention, the Chinese retail