Alibaba
Qwen 3.6: Alibaba's AI goes agentic
🧒 Discovery
Alibaba's robot no longer just answers: it can now use the computer by itself to finish a job.
📰 Essential
The new Qwen 3.6 Plus and Max make clear progress in agentic coding: the AI uses tools and drives the computer to complete tasks end to end.
🔬 Expert
The shift happens inside Qwen Code, Alibaba's command-line tool: autonomous loops, automatic fallback from one model to another, nested sub-agents and parallel work, the same direction taken by GPT-5.6, Claude Sonnet 5 or Gemini 3.5. Two caveats: Max is only a "preview", and weight availability is not stated, unlike the smaller open Qwen models. Rumours of a Qwen 3.8 were unconfirmed as of July 20.