Qwen 3.6 open weights: a dense 27B hits 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified

Alibaba ships Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (3B active, 262K context) on April 16 and a dense 27B on April 22 that outscores far larger predecessors on agentic coding — both Apache 2.0. Frontier-2024 coding ability now runs on a workstation, which resets what 'small model' means for private codebases.