Re:Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents
by Gracana on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:05PM
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I don't think there's so much naivety. People can be aware of the the plan and still be frustrated and disappointed when it happens.
Re:Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents
by Aurornis on Thursday April 02, 2026 @02:49PM
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For a brief moment there were a lot of comments about how Chinese tech companies are our saviors in the age of AI because they were releasing their models. It was an edgy contrarian take that was getting a lot of traction, mostly from commenters who were unfamiliar with Alibaba and thought it was the anti-Big-tech
My explanation is simpler and does not rely on assuming that anyone is an idiot. Or an edgy contrarian.
Re:Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents
by zozbot234 on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:09PM
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I'm not frustrated or disappointed, we have lots of models from Qwen already. We haven't really lost anything. And plenty of players only release "smaller" models anyway, so it's hardly unprecedented.
Re:Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents
by GorbachevyChase on Thursday April 02, 2026 @05:59PM
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I’m waiting for the grand reversal where Anthropic abuses the Qwen API to train the next Haiku.
Re:Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents
by miki123211 on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:11PM
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I thought Qwen was releasing open-weight because China can't compete with America (because of people's privacy concerns), so the only thing they could do is salt the ground economically with open models, and make sure everybody loses.
Apparently that wasn't actually the play here.
Re:Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents
by zozbot234 on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:27PM
(#47617400)
Qwen is actually a pretty strong player in the Chinese market. There is an implied "salt the ground" play but it's mostly from hardware makers, who are trying to keep the big AI players honest and also stand to gain if local inference becomes popular.
The naivety around this has been staggering quite frankly. All of a sudden, people thinking that meta etc are releasing free models because they believe in open access and distribution of knowledge. No, they just suck comparatively. There is nothing to sell. Using it to recruit and generate attention is the best play for them.