Qwen 3.5 Small Series Review 2026: 120B Performance on 16GB RAM (9B Model Beats GPT-OSS-120B)
Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5-9B model — released March 2, 2026 — scores 81.7 on GPQA Diamond reasoning benchmarks, beating GPT-OSS-120B (80.1) while running on a laptop with 16GB RAM. That’s a 9-billion parameter model outperforming a 120-billion parameter model on reasoning tasks — 13x fewer parameters, same consumer hardware your code already runs on, zero […]









