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Alibaba launched its next-generation Qwen3.6-Plus large language model, featuring native multimodal understanding and reasoning with significantly improved overall performance. In benchmarks including SWE-bench and Claw-Eval, its coding capabilities approach leading global models such as Anthropic’s Claude series. Qwen3.6-Plus is now available on Alibaba Cloud’s Bailian platform, with input pricing starting from 2 yuan per million tokens, and has also been integrated into Alibaba’s AI apps and platforms including Tongyi and Wukong.