Alibaba Unveils Qwen 3.5 AI Model for Agentic AI Era, Targets Rival Apps in China

Alibaba launches Qwen 3.5 AI model built for the agentic AI era, claiming improved performance and lower costs while competing with ByteDance's Doubao
Alibaba Unveils Qwen 3.5 AI Model for Agentic AI Era, Targets Rival Apps in China
Alibaba Unveils Qwen 3.5 AI Model for Agentic AI Era, Targets Rival Apps in China Alibaba Launches Qwen 3.5, Eyes Leadership in the ‘Agentic AI Era’ Chinese technology giant Alibaba has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence model, Qwen 3.5 , marking a major step in what the company describes as the “agentic AI era.” The new model is designed to execute complex tasks independently, moving beyond simple conversational AI toward more autonomous digital agents. The announcement comes as Alibaba intensifies competition in China’s rapidly expanding AI ecosystem, where rivals such as ByteDance’s Doubao and DeepSeek currently dominate user engagement. What is Qwen 3.5? Qwen 3.5 is the latest upgrade in Alibaba’s Qwen AI series and is engineered to handle multi-step reasoning, autonomous task execution, and real-time decision-making. According to the company, the model shows significant improvements in: Task planning and execution capabilities Reasoning accuracy Processing efficiency Cost-pe…