Alibaba
Alibaba announced the Qwen3.6-Max-Preview on April 20, 2026, as an early-access version of its next flagship model, available initially for interactive dialogue via Qwen Studio and forthcoming for developers through the Aliyun Bailian API under the identifier qwen3.6-max-preview. According to the report, the model topp The preview's reported gains versus the Qwen3.6-Plus focus on agent programming, world knowledge, and instruction following, with Alibaba-cited improvements of +9.9 on SkillsBench, +10.8 on SciCode, and +3.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.0 for agent programming; +2.3 on SuperGPQA and +5.3 on QwenChineseBench for world knowledge;
