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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Open-weight 35B model aimed at agentic coding, with commenters comparing it favorably to Opus 4.7.

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Why developers recommend it

It drew strong local-run and benchmark chatter, making it the clearest open-model pickup of the day.

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qwen3-6-35b-a3b

Hacker News Mentions

2026-04-17

A commenter said they were running it on a laptop in LM Studio and that it drew a better pelican than Opus 4.7; others praised the Qwen team for still shipping open weights.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

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