
Qwen3.6-27B
Qwen3.6-27B is a 27B dense open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba that scores 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified - beating Alibaba's own 397B MoE - under Apache 2.0.
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Qwen3.6-27B is a 27B dense open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba that scores 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified - beating Alibaba's own 397B MoE - under Apache 2.0.

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