1m-context

Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary AI model in days, featuring a 1 million token context window available via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API. The model claims improved agentic coding capabilities and partially outperforms Anthropic's Claude 4.5 Opus in Alibaba-conducted benchmarks, though trails Claude 4.6 Opus released in December 2025.

Alibaba's Qwen division released Qwen 3.6 Plus on April 2, 2026, offering free access to a model with a 1,000,000 token context window. The model combines linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing and achieves a 78.8 score on SWE-bench Verified for software engineering tasks.