Qwen3.6 35B A3B is THE ONE The Local LLM Champ on OpenCode benchmark dashboard [video]

Alibaba released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on April 14, 2026, a coding-focused open-source model that topped the OpenCode benchmark dashboard despite running on a fraction of its 35 billion total parameters. The model's sparse architecture activates only 3 billion parameters during inference, making it fast enough to run locally on consumer hardware while outperforming larger dense models like Gemma4-26B-A4B.

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