Qwen 3.6 / 3.7-Max / 3.8 (2026 line) ☆

Alibaba kept the world's most-forked open family sprinting through 2026: Qwen 3.6 (April — a 35B-A3B mixture-of-experts and a 27B dense model, Apache 2.0), the API-only closed Qwen 3.7-Max (May 19), and in August the Qwen 3.8 generation — headlined by a 2.4T-parameter MoE activating 95B with a hybrid DeltaNet attention design, alongside an open 27B dense vision-language model. The pattern mirrors the industry's split: permissive open weights for the family, API-only for the very top.