Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-397B: The 17B-Active Model That Proves We’ve Been Wasting 95% of Our AI Compute
Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-397B-A17B ranks #3 in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, challenging Llama’s open-source dominance with a sparse MoE architecture that activates only 17B of its 397B parameters, no chain-of-thought required.