Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s latest large language model, Qwen 3.6-Plus, ranked second globally on Code Arena, a coding-focused benchmark under LMArena, becoming the highest-ranked Chinese model. The model trailed Anthropic’s Claude-Opus-4.6-Thinking (1540) but outscored offerings from OpenAI and Google, including GPT-5.0-High (1448) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (1440). Released April 2, Qwen 3.6-Plus features native multimodal reasoning and strong coding and agent capabilities, with further model

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s latest large language model, Qwen 3.6-Plus, ranked second globally on Code Arena, a coding-focused benchmark under LMArena, becoming the highest-ranked Chinese model. The model trailed Anthropic’s Claude-Opus-4.6-Thinking (1540) but outscored offerings from OpenAI and Google, including GPT-5.0-High (1448) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (1440). Released April 2, Qwen 3.6-Plus features native multimodal reasoning and strong coding and agent capabilities, with further models, including a Qwen 3.6-Max version, expected soon.