Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B Released Open-Weight Under Apache 2.0 — 1M Native Context, Linear Attention, SWE-bench 73.4%

r/LocalLLaMA·high signal

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B on April 16, a sparse MoE model (35B total, 3B active) with Gated Delta Networks replacing standard transformer attention for linear-complexity 1M token context. SWE-bench Verified hits 73.4%. Always-on chain-of-thought reasoning uses 515 fewer tokens than Qwen 3.5 while producing 92 more output words. On r/LocalLLaMA, the launch post (520↑, 257 comments) titled 'This is it' signals the community views this as a step-change for local models.