Alibaba officially released the new flagship model of the Qwen series - Qwen3.6-Max-Preview. This model is an early preview version of the series, and users can interact with it in QwenStudio and call it via the Alibaba Cloud BaiLian API with the name qwen3.6-max-preview. Compared to the previous generation Qwen3.6-Plus, Qwen3.6-Max-Preview has made significant improvements in areas such as agent programming, world knowledge, and instruction following.

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According to Alibaba's introduction, Qwen3.6-Max-Preview achieved the highest scores in six major programming benchmark tests, including SWE-benchPro, Terminal-Bench2.0, SkillsBench, QwenClawBench, QwenWebBench, and SciCode. These results mark an important step forward in the model's programming capabilities. Specifically, in terms of agent programming ability, Qwen3.6-Max-Preview improved by 9.9 points in SkillsBench, 10.8 points in SciCode, and 5.0 points and 3.8 points respectively in NL2Repo and Terminal-Bench2.0.

In addition, Qwen3.6-Max-Preview has also shown significant improvements in its understanding of world knowledge, with a score increase of 2.3 points in SuperGPQA and 5.3 points in QwenChineseBench. At the same time, the model performed excellently in instruction following, with a score increase of 2.8 points in ToolcallFormatIFBench. These improvements make Qwen3.6-Max-Preview an important innovation in the field of intelligent programming.

Although this is a preview version, Alibaba stated that Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is still under active development, and subsequent versions will continue to be optimized to bring more powerful features and performance improvements in the future.

Key Points:   

🌟 Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is the latest flagship model released by Alibaba, with significant improvements in programming capabilities.   

📈 In six programming benchmark tests, the model achieved the highest scores, demonstrating strong intelligent programming capabilities.   

🔧 The model is still under development, and future optimizations will continue to provide better services.