Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops

kept by eddie mar 03

Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B outperforms OpenAI's 120B-parameter gpt-oss on benchmarks while being 13 times smaller and capable of running on standard laptops.

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