Alibaba TONGYI Qwen Open Source Qwen3.5 Small Model Series: Multimodal Agent Can Run on Edge Devices
The Alibaba TONGYI Qwen team has launched the Qwen3.5 small model series, including four lightweight models of 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B, along with their corresponding base versions. They are based on a unified architecture, equipped with native multimodal capabilities (supporting image-text processing), with structural improvements and reinforcement learning training that can be scaled, achieving higher intelligence levels with fewer computing resources. Among them, the 0.8B and 2B models are extremely compact and fast in inference, specifically optimized for edge devices.