Tongyi Qianwen releases Qwen3.6-Plus: Enhancing Agent programming and multimodal capabilities, API available today

CoinNetwork · 2026-04-02T08:06:09+00:00

Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen team has released the new generation flagship model Qwen3.6-Plus, which enhances Agent programming capabilities and multimodal perception. The new model supports a 1 million token context window, demonstrating excellent performance. The API is now available, with improved multi-turn dialogue reasoning and compatibility with programming tools. Future plans include series releases and small-scale model open sourcing.

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2026-04-02 08:06:09

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Coin World Network April 2 news, according to monitoring by 1M AI News, Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen’s team released a new generation flagship model Qwen3.6-Plus, with API access opened for calls through Alibaba Cloud Bai Lian as of today. The core upgrade focuses on Agent programming capabilities, while also strengthening multimodal perception and reasoning; by default, it supports a 1,000,000-token context window.

In terms of programming, Qwen3.6-Plus performs exceptionally well on benchmarks such as code repair, terminal operations, and automated task execution. It has achieved top results across multiple long-horizon planning and tool-calling benchmarks, and can handle complex front-end projects such as 3D scenes and games.

On the multimodal side, the model has improvements across tasks including complex document understanding, video reasoning, and visual programming. It supports scenarios such as generating code based on interface screenshots and reconstructing front-end pages from design mockups.

The API adds a preserve_thinking parameter, which can retain the reasoning and thinking content from previous rounds across multi-turn conversations. The official recommends using it for Agent tasks. Alibaba Cloud Bai Lian also supports both the OpenAI-compatible protocol and the Anthropic-compatible protocol. The latter can directly integrate with Claude Code. In addition, it is compatible with programming tools such as OpenClaw, Qwen Code, Kilo Code, Cline, and OpenCode. Daily free calls for Qwen Code can be obtained with OAuth login, totaling 1,000 times.

The Qianwen team said that its recent work focus will shift to the overall release of the Qwen3.6 series, and it will also open-source smaller-scale model versions in the future.

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