Alibaba's Qwen3.6-Max-Preview and Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 were released within a 24-hour window on April 20–21, 2026. A side-by-side look at specs, benchmarks, distribution, and agent-side features for the two flagships.
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B as open weights. A 40-layer hybrid of Gated DeltaNet, Gated Attention, and MoE hits 73.4 on SWE-bench Verified, 37.0 on MCPMark, and 1397 on QwenWebBench.
