On-Device AI

Qwen 3.5 Small: Alibaba's 9B Model That Beats GPT-OSS-120B

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 Small series delivers natively multimodal AI models from 0.8B to 9B parameters under Apache 2.0, with the 9B scoring 81.7 on GPQA Diamond — beating OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B.

By Sarah Chen · 5 min · Mar 29, 2026