By Tracy Qu
China's Alibaba Group on Thursday released Qwen3.6-Plus, the latest version of its flagship large language model series, as competition in artificial intelligence intensifies.
The new model is designed for "agentic AI," which is aimed at moving from passive assistance to systems that can autonomously handle complex, large-scale coding tasks and real-world visual tasks, Alibaba said in a statement.
Qwen3.6-Plus will be integrated into Alibaba's ecosystem, including Wukong, an AI-native enterprise platform, and Qwen App, Alibaba's flagship AI application, the company said. It added that the model showed strong benchmark performance in agentic coding and multimodal reasoning.
The AI industry is rapidly shifting from chatbots to AI agents, a direction now shared by both major tech companies and AI startups. Companies like Moonshot AI and MiniMax have also updated their models to better perform tasks such as writing codes and generate research reports.
Write to Tracy Qu at tracy.qu@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 02, 2026 01:36 ET (05:36 GMT)
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